Kids' cold porcelain jars

As soon as our new crafting table arrived the kids wanted to use it and we decorated some cold porcelain jars. I had made the biscuits already so they simply picked the ones they wanted to use. They told me which colours they wanted for the lid and I helped them to put the lids on. Then they made some decorations for the jars and glued everything on.

This is my jar from the same day. It was so difficult to take a picture of this one but it's a sleeping baby anyhow :)

Today's jars

I made these jars today. Some came out just the way I had imagined, some didn't quite :) It was great fun making these though. And yes, I do realise that the rabbit still needs eyes...

Blogger turned this one for me but this is the lid of the candy jar (see last picture).

Cold porcelain jars

We made a cookie jar with our teacher last week. These cookies are made with forms but I made some at home by myself and they look quite real too.

These small jars are for my kids. I wanted to practice making little people without forms and I had as a reference two key chains that someone else had made out of cold porcelain. It took me ages (an hour and 40 minutes) to complete these two and there are still lots of things to do better next time... The kids loved them however :)

Cold porcelain with the kids

On Saturday I sat down with the kids and let them play with cold porcelain. We had a couple of colours and my intention was to make play food. Lucas came up with super cute popsickles all by himself. Luana made a fantasy cake as well as some smaller things and I "baked" some cakes for small dolls. It was so much fun that we'll definitely do this many more times together.

First works

We finished our first jars on Friday. The one on the left is my mum's and the one on the right is mine.

Our hands are itching to get new forms, colours and empty jars! :) We'll learn new things on Wednesday and will buy some new colours on Tuesday. There's supposed to be a fairly good shop with crafting supplies in a town about 40 minutes from us and we're hoping to visit there soon.

Cold porcelain

Yesterday I was invited to a friend's house to learn how to make cold porcelain (or biscuit) as it's called over here in Brazil. This is a technique that apparently started in Argentina and is very very popular in Brazil. There are some Brazilian websites here (she also has things in English), here and here. The paste is extremely easy to make (the link above has a slightly different recipe from the one we used but I'm sure that'll work as well) and it can be moulded by hand or using small silicone molds.

You have to excuse me for the quality of the pictures. The light was all funny and somehow the macro wasn't working as I wanted it to... I'll post more pictures as I get something done myself. We'll have our following lesson next Wednesday and I have some homework to do :)

It's great fun and highly addictive. I borrowed some molds off my friend but I'm dying to get my own already! The opportunities are endless and we just bought a magazine full of great ideas and models.