craftgrrl | Sweet Cherry Pie (Reply)

Yes, I did have to make a brand new post right after the other one because it's so awesome. Sorry for the annoyance. It's worth it though. Trust me.

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Now, first off, I just want to say thanks for all you lovely craftgrrls who gave me advice on the polymer clay questions I had last week.

I've been wanting to start making things out of polymer clay but was afraid of failure.
Your advice really helped. I'm finally a little more confident,
especially after the awesome piece I just baked up.

I knew I wanted to bake a pie. I just didn't know, at the time, what kind I wanted to do.
While making my 'crust' I decided on cherry pie.

The Warrant song was playing in my head the whole time, making the process even sweeter.

The first thing I made was the crust. I rolled it out, like dough, and then cut each piece of the lattice top. I placed it together as if I were baking an actual crust. Then I formed the bottom on a bottlecap. I pinched off and rolled little tiny cherry sized bits of red clay and dropped them into the base. I added the top crust and then added a finger-pinched crust and a few more cherries. I cut a slice right out of the pie and made a little plate for it to rest on.

After that, I formed the fork and napkin, pierced all of the pieces and set them aside. I baked them the next day (after reading all of the advice on craftgrrl) and painted them that night. I worked two hours on getting the jewelry bits together the next night and wore them on Sunday.

I love them.

(ignore me)

I love them so much and got so many compliments on them that I've decided to start a "Sweetie Pie" series. I'll make apple pie, blueberry pie, strawberry pie... who knows what else. I just hope I don't lose my momentum on them because I had a really great time making them, even if it was troublesome in a couple of areas. (When I was putting the jewelry bits in, my big pie piece broke, but I superglued it back!!) I have high hopes for my Sweetie Pies.