Cookies!

So Joe made some homemade chocolate chunk cookies the other night, using white, milk, and dark chocolate chunks. I think they look quite nice!

Well, they look nice on the top; unfortunately Joe may not be the best cook, and some of them did get a bit black on the bottom. Perhaps his oven is not heating things evenly?

Overall though, they look quite presentable, I think.

Of course they're polymer clay and not actually edible, and when you put them on the little tea saucer they go clink, but hey. I made them in two sizes, the larger about a half inch across to look like the big three inch kind. I suppose I should have posed them with something for scale like all the other miniature makers do, like a quarter or dime or pencil, oh well.

I baked the different varieties of 'chocolate' separately first so they would remain in solid chunks and not just get mixed into the 'dough'. I baked them as thin slabs, then cut them up while they were still warm from the oven, which worked quite well. I am very happy with them!

Bits & Bobs for Joe

Just a quick note/update. This is a hobby blog and so a bit sporadic, I know, but I have been thinking about Joe and his house, as well as working on some things for him, not that any of the furniture is up to the show and tell stage just yet. But I did make him a cushion for his Stickley cube chair, after acquiring some William Morris(ish) quilting cloth in my latest quilt fabric shopping foray (that would be one of my other hobbies). I made it up with a little pillow, filled with seed beads so it has some weight to it like a full-sized pillow, which idea I stole from Brae at Otterine's Miniatures.

Of course that pillow is going to be continually slipping through the back of the chair in a very aggravating manner, but Joe probably has more patience than I do. His living room, incidentally, is going to be in warm earthy shades of green and the like, to fit the Craftsman back-to-nature aesthetic.

The other thing I did recently was try my hand at some polymer clay food. There are tons of wonderful miniature-making tutorials out there online, and bread seemed the easiest place to start. It's been a long time since I've done anything in polymer clay, but I had a lot of fun making these. Though I'm not sure Joe is the artisan bread type; he's probably more a frozen pizza kind of guy.

Anyway, what fun! I think some chocolate chunk cookies are next on the list.