What have we been up to?

Hello All,

Here we are again!

It has been a little while since our last post, which we enjoyed making so much, so we figure it is time for at least an update of what we have going on!

As any of you have have faved our shop, liked our facebook page, or follow us on Twitter, you may have noticed that a lot of what we keep posting does not involve clay. It's true.

Now do not worry, this does not mean that we have stopped producing clay at all, we are just not producing as much of it as we once were. We have been making a lot of Vinyl decals as of late. Trying to add new designs here and there for a variety to match multiple interests of everyone out there, and we are sure you will see even more vinyl decal designs in the future.

If you want to see the decals we offer you can check out THIS LINK No pics this time, I got lazy :(


Now getting back to clay, as we said, we have not been making many things out of clay as of late. However, we do have a commission right now to make another cake topper. This one will be something a little close to home I guess you could say. Why close to home? Well it is going to be of an Owl! As we all know by now, we seem to have a thing for owls. This cake topper I believe will be going atop a diaper cake for a little girl named Sophia. Actually, the little girl will not even know it exists for a while, because she is not yet born, but it will be kept as a keepsake after the Baby Shower for years to come. We have not started it as of yet as we have been busy with other things, but once we have it completed you will see it on our facebook, and most likely a new post featuring the little darling. This however, is all we will say about it for now, to you, as well as the Mother to be, the final look of it will be kept top secret until its delivery.

:)

Now I keep saying that we have been busy any time I mention things we have to do. This is a part of why we are keeping decals available for purchase other than we enjoy designing and making them, but once we have designed it they take less time to make than say a single pair of earrings, and if we screw the decal up, we can make another exact copy where as with the clay we will be short an earring and have to start over.

Why do I keep saying we are busy, when we have nothing new posted? Well Jimmy entered a contest back in February and its time is almost up (Voting ends March 18th) and since entering the competition 1 month ago, a lot of what Jimmy & Monique have been doing is promoting the competition like CRAZY.

While writing this I will take the time to say if  you have not voted PLEASE visit the following link, make an account and vote Jimmy's design a 5 [SUPER AWESOME DESIGN LINK] We would greatly appreciate it, the voting is very close right now and Jimmy is probably in the top 10-12 out of I think 250-300 Designs. We are hoping for the best but will be happy to of entered the competition win or lose.

So making new Decals, Cake Topper Commission, Design Contest & promotion, has been taking a lot of our free time,plus there is work, as well as we are trying to be healthier in what we eat how we cook it and we try to go walking at least a couple times a week, which is very enjoyable. Best part about walking for exercise? BOOM no membership required. It's a great way to get fresh air and a little exercise in at the same time. Take 15 or 30 minutes a couple times a week to get out there and see what nature has to offer people, if you got kids take them with you they like being outside, just let use their imagination and they will follow right along.

So this has been a bit of a strange post compared to our normal craziness that is held within out blog posts, but you do have some things to look forward too.

- New Items We are Working On (secrets as well :P)
- Cake Topper Post
- New Featured Artist Post
-Contest Results
-New Decals
-Our feelings about TopHatter
-Maybe some more!

Who doesn't love Kookies?

Hello all!

As you know we come across a lot of other crafters and artists in our time spent on Etsy, and the occasional craft fair. When we find a person that we admire, or that inspires us to try harder and go farther, we like to tell you about them.

Well, you may remember a while back a post that involved some Mech/Steampunk Owls, if you have looked back at our former posts recently you will notice that that post was removed, as we have recently found out that they were a copy cat crafter. Now, when we say copy cat we don't mean similar items, we mean direct knock offs. Once we found out that a person we featured was a person creating direct knock offs we were a little outraged, so we removed them from our blog, and in the end will have them removed from all of our Social Media sites.

Now that the air is clear of that mess, we would like to offer our sincerest apologies to Kimberly again for promoting the fraud in the first place.

Now, on to the best part!

As you can see from this post title, this post must have something to do with kookies, and well, who doesn't like kookies? I know we do, however, these Kookies, may be a little different from what you have in mind, these are MONSTER KOOKIES!

We learned of Monster Kookies shortly after our previous post about the fradulant artist, however, at that time we just thought they were similar artist, and perhaps the works they produced  followed a particular pattern or book, as there are many many guides for polymer clay artist out there, as well as tons of how to videos on youtube, and user blogs.

Regardless of any of that, we still liked what we saw in Monster Kookies shop, and website so we added them on facebook, and I believe may of faved their shop on Etsy, because their stuff was really neat. Not only were the Mech/Steampunk Critters highly detailed and amazing so was everything else that come from Monster Kookies. The craftsmanship was and still is outstanding. Awesome work, along with some recognition, and even charity work, makes this shop, and its people truly awesome.

Now Kimberly, who is often called Kookie, is the owner and operator of Monster Kookies. She resides in Southwestern Ontario Canada, in the small town of Goderich. Her works have been featured in a couple of independent magazines, such as Rue Morgue, and Creepy Queen magazine, as well as a few books.

In August of 2011, her little town was struck with a devastating tornado, and using her outreach through her Etsy shop, Monster Kookies was able to raise and Donate 819.00 to the town to help fight all of the damage. Now there is more to read of other things she has accomplished through Monster Kookies, her full About me Section can be found on her Website by clicking here.

Now, lets get onto some of her crazy fun creations:

Kimberly, is the TRUE Mad Scientist of Polymer Clay. There is no other in comparison. So what exactly does this mad scientist make? Well, if you ask me, these look like they are straight out of the lab to me.

I am not sure what experiment went wrong causing these transformations to occur to these tasty treats, but whatever happened, happened! I think my favorite of those three has to be the cupcake with it's tongue hanging out, it's pretty awesome.

Now, I like to imagine that this mad scientist had a food experiment go totally wrong, and the only way to help with the tentacle cupcakes and cupcakes that could eat you was to make an army of mechanical critters to help battle against this monstrous food. What kind of critters would help? Well, these of course, owls to swoop in from above, and mice to nom nom nom on ground level!

This is such a pretty Photograph!

Maybe though, the owls were not enough to keep the foods at bay, so reinforcements were made...

Love the Teeth

Air, Land, and Sea are covered with mechanical creatures to battle against these beastly foods!

I am fairly sure that these fun little critters make my mind wonder off into some sort of fantasy land where food is alive and they only way to stop it is adorable awesome mechanical critters. Well, that is how my mind works, what can I say?

Now, Monster Kookies does make items that are not man eating cupcakes, or robotic woodland critters, and some of the items are just so cute on their own, that you can barely contain your squee, and others are of a mechanical variety, but are not critters.

In the items below you will see some of the other mechanical objects, as well as some of the just plain adorable ones!

Pretty awesome right? So many things all made by the same hands, art is such an awesome thing. Now there are TONS and I mean TONS more images of Monster Kookies work on their facebook, deviant Art, Website, and Etsy, all of which I will provide you with links to shortly.

We hope you have enjoyed all that you have seen, and read. We ask that if you use facebook, stop in and give Monster Kookies a like, if you are an Etsian, please feel free to Fav their shop, or Watch them on Deviant Art, and make sure to stop by their website to see all that you can see about Monster Kookies.

You will find as you look through the glorious images on the pages below, that many of these critters have names as well, since there are so many, I will let you go out into the world of Monster Kookies, and discover these critters names and personalities on your own.

Below are the Links as Promised.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/monsterkookies.creations [Be sure to check out the Photos!]

Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/monsterkookies [Currently on Vacation]

deviant Art: http://monsterkookies.deviantart.com/ [More Awesome Photos, & Art]

Website: http://monsterkookies.com/ [All the Coverage you could need!]

I leave you with the following image, because out of all of the owls I have seen, even though it is not as complex, and at least to me seems simple and quaint in comparison to all of the others I have seen, I believe that this is my favorite, maybe blue being my favorite color has a little to do with it.

My Name is Ahti.
(Blue MechOwlie is best Owlie!)

Who Have We Found On Etsy? Miss Kitty's Kuties!

We randomly find special people on Etsy, or maybe special people find us!

When we find these special people, we like to let others know about them too! Share the fun right? Why not!

Anyway, a few days ago we faved this item on Etsy.

How cute is this?

We were messaged by the shop owner thanking us for adding the item to our favorites, we like to do that, and we like when others do it too. Well, it turns out that they had just opened their Etsy store on that exact day. Super Cool right? I think so.

As it stands at this moment they only have a few items in their shop, but each one is just as adorable as the one pictured above.

They are Hand Sewn headbands, and the pictured above if I am not mistaken the flower, which is also hand sewn, is made onto a bobby pin so you can add it, subtract it, move it, what ever suits you best. How cool is that?

They have told us they are working on new objects to add to their store, so you will have to be sure to stop by often to see what they have added that is new!


So more importantly, I am sitting here telling you about this person that makes these awesome adorable headbands, and all you are thinking is well cough it up, who is it? Be patient the link to their shop is right around the corner.

The Shop is Miss Kitty's Kuties!


Now people, go and check out this new Etsian!

-Polymer Yay!