More clay houses

It's been quite a while since I added new houses in the shop! So this time I added a lot of houses and trees as well as sets of two houses with a little tree. Some are done in natural colors like the brown house but for some I picked bright colors like the yellow and blue set of two houses.
I do love working on them, each house is individually hand formed, then I sand them to create surface texture and then the fun part begins: taking out ALL of my acrylics and picking color combinations that attract my eye. And once I am done it looks so good to put all the houses together, it's like a colorful little village with one of a kind homes and trees!
Aleka

Days in photos

Hi there, it's been a while! I've been working on a few things, you can see from the photos and somehow managed to completely neglect the blog. Hope to post more often again :-)
Have a lovely day,
Aleka

It's summer

Well summer is officially here, walking out of the house feels a lot like walking into an oven. So I stayed in and worked a bit. I'm finishing a couple of clay houses, they'll be in a set of two houses and a tree, I have two houses and two trees that need varnishing and I remade the mermaid earrings.
On the left is the pair that was ruined during varnishing, you can see the white color appearing from under the blue and honestly it looks a lot worse than the photo, like it's whitewashed. On the right the pair that I made yesterday and started varnishing today, the color stayed where it should, yay :-)
Remember the paper rockets we made? The nephew loved that project and we made some more when we came back from our Easter holiday. And now I found this fantastic tutorial on flying carp fish, it's going on my "must try it" list!
Wishing you a great Sunday and a productive week to come,
Aleka

New but not so new

Finally up in the shop, set no1 and set no2 with two clay houses and a little tree. They are not so new but finally my time and the sun were in harmony and I could take the photos. These last couple of weeks there have been a lot of distractions but I do have some actually new designs, hopefully soon to be listed.
And a few ideas that I want to experiment with, I'm pretty excited about that :-)
Wishing you a great weekend,
Aleka

Before and after

The before and after of my little clay houses, painted and varnished now I have to photograph each one. And taking the photos is not the part I hate the most, it's editing those photos afterwards. These last couple of days I've spent so much time editing photos on the computer that my eyes are getting so very tired.
And even though I'm the type of person that makes never-ending lists and likes to cross things off them as soon as possible I think I'll take it a bit slow now :-)
Have a great day,
Aleka
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