Today, I’m bringing a project that I had a lot of fun making, even though the final result turned out nothing like what I had imagined in my head. This is the third time I have worked with biscuit clay. The first time was the chessboard project that I already shared here in the community, and the second time I made mushrooms to decorate my house, which I also posted about on my blog. This time, I was hoping the result would be a little better, that I would improve each time I worked with this material, but it turns out it is harder than I thought.
Anyway, back to today’s project. I had some leftover biscuit clay at home, so I decided to make fridge magnets inspired by some I had seen on Pinterest. They were these tiny vases meant to hold dried flowers and stick onto the fridge. I thought they were the cutest thing and that it would be a reasonably simple and easy project, so I decided to give it a shot. But of course, things do not always turn out as pretty in real life as they do on the internet.
So, besides the vases, which I actually think turned out kind of cute but definitely not what I would call beautiful, I also decided to make little cats. But I wanted them to have something extra, like strawberry-shaped heads. However, I left too little space to draw their faces, which made it really tricky. I tried so many times with a brush, but it just was not working. It was looking really bad. So I ended up giving up on the strawberry head for one of them and just left it as a regular strawberry. For the other, I painted the face using a marker, a Faber-Castell pen that does not smudge and has good quality. It did not turn out exactly beautiful, as you can see, but I think it looks charming. I have a soft spot for these little ugly cats because I made them inspired by my own cats, which you can also see in the photos of my fridge.
I apologize for the quality of some of the pictures. I kept forgetting to take photos during the process, so I ended up taking some screenshots from the final video I recorded for my TikTok channel.
The most fun part, without a doubt, is always painting. Even though I got a little frustrated with that part this time, it is a project that is worth it. I glued the magnets on the back using hot glue, but I do not think that was a good choice because after a week, some of them started falling off, especially since it has been really hot where I live. So I will have to try gluing them again. This time I will use super glue or something more resistant. I hope you liked my project, and I will be back soon with more.
