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I spent the whole of last week reading Shaman King manga. I’ve finally finished now. The sad thing is, when I read manga, my whole life stops because i’m so addicted that I don’t stop reading 
. So I didn’t really get much done, but I did finish my donut checkers set.
If you follow my Facebook you may have heard something about a travel mint-choc macaron set but that failed. Macarons aren’t easy enough to make cheap and fast for a checkers set, plus they didn’t look good plain. I didn’t want to drive up the costs of the checkers set, so I decided that with the amount of clay and time needed to make macarons, it wouldn’t really be worth it. So I ended up deciding on donuts.
The game board is a little drawstring bag that you can put your donut pieces in. The board is about 16x16cm big and the donuts are about 2cm in diameter, so it’s quite a small set.
Mmm strawberry icing
The bag is made with calico and fabric crayon heat sealed with an iron so the crayon’s not going anywhere! And of course the donuts are my usual clay miniatures.
Chocolate icing
Because of the time needed to make this checkers set, this is a special order item. The set is $20 and takes 3 days to make and dry.
To order please email me at hikariadeco@gmail.com. I require prepayment for this item so please include your country so I can calculate shipping and your Etsy username if you have one as I prefer to do transactions over Etsy. Please also let me know if you’d like other colours for the donuts. Unfortunately I am only able to make the board yellow at this time . Also, if you desire toppings for the donuts extra charges may apply depending on types of toppings (for example, sprinkles) because of the extra time needed to make and attach these. Please email if you have any questions 
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Uni semester starts very soon for me so I am worried about how i’m going to balance crafting, blogging and studying. I promise I will get my millefeuille tutorial and a post about my tools done soon before the uni term starts. I’m not sure if I will be reviewing those craft books I promised to review a while ago any time soon, i’m very sorry about that! If you really wish to see it or if you really want one of the books I had in my photo reviewed let me know and i’ll do it .
I just know i’m going to get weird search keywords now that i’ve put the words ‘lusting’ and ‘lolita’ in my title, so if you came here thinking you will find young girls being sexy you can think again!
Anyway I took a break yesterday from sculpting and decided to do some sewing. I spent the night before trawling through lolita websites reliving my younger senior high school days when I was a ‘mild’ gothic lolita, in other words a broke one who couldn’t afford an extensive wardrobe, nor have the time to sew myself one. Right now my fashion style is mostly indie with a small dash of classic lolita blouses and gyaru, in other words I just wear whatever the frick I want to, but I suddenly had a yearning to wear a lolita style skirt. So I got sewing.
I really hate the waistband
I ended up making this skirt and seriously I nearly exploded with rage sewing this stupid thing. This is actually the second skirt, somehow I screwed up the measurements for my waist in the first skirt so it was too big, plus it had some ribbon trim at the bottom that I ended up not liking. So I cut out a second bit of fabric, and made the skirt without the trim and I liked it a lot better. Then I decided it needed a scallop hem, and let me tell you, scallop hems require superhuman freakin’ patience! I mean the cutting and the measuring… just thinking about it is giving me nightmares again! Theeen, I tried to make a half elasticised waistband with no zip because I hate putting in zips but I also hate the look of an all elasticised waistband, but for some reason that failed because I couldn’t get the skirt over my thighs, so I had to undo the whole waistband, cut out a new one and then elasticised it all… now I don’t like the top of the skirt because of its waistband . Eh whatever, I bought some stripe fabric too and I want to make a bustle skirt out of that, but right now I don’t even want to look at a sewing machine for a while!
Meanwhile the market is in two days and I am getting nervous! I’ve made some new stock for it, I won’t be listing these on Etsy because I need all the stock I can get right now but if you really do want one of these let me know and I can save one for you.
Hey everyone, I have some miscellaneous news for you! Yay! Firstly, I will be selling my items at the Suitcase Rummage on October 3rd. The event is held at King George Square in Brisbane starting from 12 to 5pm, I hope to see you guys there! For the non Brisbane-ites i’ll post pictures of my Suitcase .
Secondly I have been confirmed a stall for the Wednesday UQ markets on October 6th. I don’t have much information about that yet so I will let you know more as I get more info. This will likely turn into a weekly market that I run.
Because of these two events I am actually on a small blogging hiatus to make lots of stock. I’ll probably only post once a week or so now. I’ll be on Twitter and Facebook, but full on blogging and commenting might not be so frequent these days i’m sorry. When i’m back i’ll be doing a post on different types of air dry clay, and i’ve also got a little surprise review .
With that said, I leave you with my newest item:
Strawberry millefeuille!
Strawberry millefeuille! I have so desperately wanted to make a good millefeuille but I could never get the pastry flaky enough… well finally, I have success! I’m so happy about this, going off to do a happy dance . But lastly, I just wanted to ask… does anyone know how to pronounce ‘millefeuille’? I have no idea but I really need to know .
IT’S DONE!! YES! I’ve finished my Japan guide, please check it out and I hope it helps you guys or at least you guys enjoy reading it . Also, someone has requested strawberry and banana slice tutorials, i’ll be doing them when I run out of banana and strawberry slices and I need to make them again. Personally I actually hate making them and i’d avoid it at any cost. They are incredibly tedious and annoying, especially the bananas.
Mini croissant stud earrings! I love these!
I’ve been doing a hell of a lot of sculpting lately because my friends have convinced me to open a market stall. It’s a bit of a far off plan for me right now, but I definitely needed stock above anything else if I was going to do that, so i’ve been sculpting a lot to make up stock for any sort of market stall I might be opening. I’ve got more pictures of what i’ve been up to after the jump:
Strawberry shortcake phone straps
Really tall fruit tarts!
Phew, i’m finally getting close to finishing the Japan guide! I’m surprised and happy at myself haha… although today I finished writing one, then the computer crashed and WordPress only autosaved the title! So I rage quit for the night, otherwise I might’ve been finished by now. Grr! Also, I do have a ribbon bow tutorial coming up, stay tuned!
I made some fruit tarts, once again out of air dry clay. This time it’s a combination of Cosmos and Grace clay, Cosmos being a stiffer, more opaque version of Grace. I keep forgetting to put these things up on my Etsy page! I really need to remember. I don’t know what to attach these to though, they seem a bit garish for necklaces… what do you think?
I’ve got more pictures after the jump – and a little sneak peak of my workplace:
