Who Are You Calling Crafty?

The mobile hanging in my living room – it has never made it to his bedroom

As I have gone through past items I have made and taken photos of I decided to write up a blog entry.  When I was pregnant with Vincent the one thing I wanted was a black and white mobile.  I was having no such luck finding what I wanted.  I then decided to make my own out of black and white Super Sculpey, I was also on bed rest so I needed something to do.  I also wanted his initals on the mobile VXM, I used ABC cookie cutters to create them the V = I did squares similar to the triangle  X = I did lines like the circle and M = I did circles like the mirror.

  

The underside of the mobile that the baby will see.

The top part of the mobile that no one will see. Things that I learned making this project:  I originally had used 3 hangers and Duct Tape instead of the embroidery hoop – DO NOT DO THIS!!!!  There is not enough Duct Tape in the world to make it look good.  Go to the store and buy some embroidery hoops it will save you a lot of time and energy.  I wish I would have used wood opposed to the clay – I sealed it with a plain old acrylic sealer and  the sealers don’t work well on polymer clay (it makes them sticky) so it is now sticky, I wish I would have just either bought the correct sealer or used wood.  All in all I am pretty please with the design too bad he never really used it.