And the winner is............

The winner of my give-away is LOES!!!!

Congrats, I'll make sure to send you an email as well.

Don't worry, I'm sure I'll host a new one in a little while, but if you can't wait 'till then you could always order one at trutdelamode.com. If you do so today you'll get a 25% discount by using coupon-code 'champagne'.

PS; does anyone know how to show the random-generator results as an image? Something other than Prt Scrn since I'm kinda disabled atm and it's already a huge struggle to type let alone crop :d

Give Away; Win a ring :D

I've found out that I just don't have the patience to wait 'till I actually get 30 followers (that's just not going to happen anytime soon :( ) so I'm just going to give away a ring this week and keep the pretty necklace I had saved for the 30 followers milestone for when I get 50 :) So if you want to win it you better help me spread the word about my blog :D


Anyways, this time you'll be able to win a ring of choice, I've got quite a few to choose from, and I'll send it over asap! Everyone that leaves a comment will automatically have a shot at winning, becoming a follower will give you a second ticket and blogging/twittering/doing any kind of advertising will get you a third :D
You've got 'till friday the 11th to enter.

And don't forget to check out the new layout and jewelry at www.trutdelamode.com, the 25% discount's only valid until saturday the 12th.

This give-away is now closed, the winner is Loes :D
Don't worry if you haven't won, I'm supposed to host another one once I have 50 followers

New layout and items on trutdelamode.com!

A brand new layout and lots of new items on the website :D I've been working my behind off the last couple of days, but I really think it was worth it. The site's a lot easier to navigate right now and everything just looks more organized.



Go check it out!!!!

And don't forget to place your order, everyone that order something between now and Sat. the 12th will get a 25% discount (just use couponcode champagne, I made it just for friends, everyone else gets 15% :p).

My really cool idea........backfired :(

Remember that really cool idea I mentioned last time? Well, it kinda backfired :(
I found a really cool way to make 'gemstone-like' pendants/beads/etc etc using polymer clay, but what they forgot to tell me that the stuff used to get that effect doesn't exactly melt at 130'C and since that's apparently the highest temp allowed for Fimo I'm in trouble :( So far this is what I got..........and a few burned ones that ended up in the trash, just to be safe.

First attempt: Nothing melted at ALL so I just poured some on top of the baked pendant just to check if I could get it to melt and I did :D It ended up looking like something exploded though. This is the only on that's varnished btw.


Second attempt: Things started to melt, you can see the light swirly looking things inside, but it turned out there was too much stuff on top instead of in the clay.



Third (today's) attempt: Looking much better, things melted (or kinda exploded) inside, there's loads of little swirls and dots, but there's still some unmelted stuff, mostly just underneath the surface :(