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I was going to wait until tomorrow for some daylight but I can’t wait to post this – I’ve just finished crocheting my first Fuzzy Ferret! Sorry the photo is a bit dark, but hopefully you get the idea. Click the pic to see the full-size ferret:

Ferret fans – I’ve made this for you! I tried to make him lifesize – he’s about 14″ long by 4.5″ tall. Hope you approve…

UPDATE: We have better photos! See my new post for more ferrety goodness.

UPDATE: Looking for the pattern? You can find the Fuzzy Ferret crochet pattern in my shop.

Sorry for the blog silence – I’ve been busy designing! I have 3 projects currently in the works… more on that soon. For now, to help pass the time, here’s a little game for you:

Four of these stones are beach rocks from Lake Ontario. The other seven are my polymer clay faux granite rocks. Can you tell the genuine articles from the Fimo replicas?

Click for the close-up

Just a bit of fun for a Tuesday morning!

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The Fuzzy Seal pattern is now available! You can order it directly from PlanetJune.com and the pdf will be e-mailed to you.

Now you can make your own amigurumi baby harp seal!

April’s OneHourCraft Challenge is “to make an impossibly gorgeous necklace”, so I got the polymer clay out and started playing.

I used a base of translucent Fimo Soft, with snakes of green and blue running through it. I also added dark greeny-blue micro beads (tiny glass beads with no holes) to the rounded beads, which is why they look darker than the others. I had a bit of a surprise when I baked the beads – they darkened and went from greenish blue to a definite green, but that’s okay:

I strung the beads with silver (coloured) spacers and findings. The finished necklace length is 14″ so it’s just longer than a choker and sits around the base of my neck.

Click for full-size version

Thanks Mia for the inspiration to make a necklace! This was a fun quick craft to try.

I had a nice surprise waiting for me when I got home today. And it was perfectly timed to cheer me up (my wrist is hurting again, thanks to some work-related strain on it yesterday):

Photo taken in dappled sunlight to prove that the sun really is out – yay!

It’s a package of cute and fruity treats from Heidi of My Paper Crane, who makes (amongst other wonderful things) the most adorable plush foods in existence. Thanks Heidi – it’s much appreciated 🙂

I made these polymer clay faux granite rocks last week. They were originally intended to be stones for the base of my artificial bonsai, but I decided they weren’t quite right for that project. I just sanded them quickly with my homemade detail sander to get my fingerprints off. (The size of each stone is about 1 or 2cm.)

Are they real, or are they FIMO? Click the pic to take a closer look…

Testing another pattern for Kristen, here’s my second (and last) little fairy – she’s a bit shy though:

Ahh, here she is!

I’m really pleased with her hair: I unravelled the plies of worsted weight yarn so it would be fine and fluffy and curly:

It was fun to try out someone else’s patterns for a change, but now I’m ready to return to my own creations. My next planned crocheted animal (by popular demand) will be Fuzzy Ferret… watch this space!

I tested this fairy pattern for Kristen. I followed the pattern exactly except for the colours and hairstyle. And I had far too much fun giving her the long thick tresses (chocolate brown with black streaks and honey highlights) that I will never have in real life! Isn’t she cute?