Dayna Came Over Again And We Took A 20-minute Break From Our Cookie-dough-and-Gilmore-Girls Marathon

Dayna came over again and we took a 20-minute break from our cookie-dough-and-Gilmore-Girls marathon to make Gumby and Pokey, because we figured it was just one step above making a snowman and a snake.

(Dayna whined a lot about how bad her horse was, but I think he's cute.)

Gumby, Super Sculpey and Sculpey III, ~20 min.

My first official request! This one is for my biggest fan, also known as Mom. She's an Egyptologist and she asked for "something Egyptian," so I made her a little statue of her favorite god, Anubis. I wanted to use the Sculpey III for color, but the clay is so much drier and tougher than Super Sculpey, so I wasn't able to be as detailed as I would have liked. The constant crumbling meant I couldn't touch a section once I finished it, and his ankh may or may not have looked like a crucifix at several points. Nevertheless, I have prevailed! Hope you like him, Mom.

(Here's the form if you want something, too.)

Sculpey III, ~2 hours

Look, if you want something every day, some of them are just going to suck.

Sculpey III, ~15 min.

Rhonda tells me "sloths are the new birds" (in reference to the hip animal du jour), so she requested that I make her a sloth. She did not specify that it be anorexic, nor that it only have fur on the right side of its body. I took those artistic liberties myself.

Super Sculpey, ~90 min.

Today, just a few miles down the street from my apartment in San Francisco, Judge Walker overturned Proposition 8. I'm a little teary-eyed thinking about how happy I am for all my friends here in California who will soon have the right to marry the people they love. So, because I was feeling all mushy and sentimental today, I made this little rose. (But I'm still me, so I photographed it like the cover of a trashy romance novel. Obviously.)

I know there's still a long road to travel until everyone in this country enjoys the same freedoms, but we got a little bit closer today. Feels pretty good.

Super Sculpey, ~40 min.

Hi, Kidlette, I'd love to see an Egyptian piece. As simple as a pyramid or a complicated as Hatshepsut's temple. You pick! - momlette

Coming right up!