Crafting clay pieces for my shop ｜ shop diaries 01 ｜ 48h clay with me

For years, I have dreamt of opening my own shop and I'm finally doing it. I have ADHD, so that means my brain is just constantly jammed packed with ideas and projects I want to do, but it takes a lot to figure out how and where to start. But then there's also the impulsive side of my ADHD that I recently took over and said, let's just start making things. So here we are, episode 1 of Shop Diaries, where I document the behind the scenes of building my online store from scratch. Whenever I watch vlogs by other artists, they always start with a really pretty sketch. Unfortunately, that's not what you're going to find here because I'm terrible at sketching. If you couldn't tell, this is a keychain and hopefully the end product will look much better than this sketch. Over the last week, I've started making some things, including the first prototypes of this keychain. Today, I would like to sculpt more of these clay houses, add some paint detail to them, maybe glaze if we have the time, but more importantly, I would like to work on the beaded part and assemble everything together to have a clearer picture of the final product. In just 2 weeks, I've managed to clock hours upon hours of polymer clay tutorials in my YouTube history and collected a full box of supplies. The first batch of houses I made varied a bit in size, so I recently got a precision skill to help me stay more consistent. I also learned that cardstock paper is a brilliant surface for working polymer clay, along with some pieces of glass from old picture frames. I'm gonna start my timer and we're starting with conditioning the clay. It's a bikini! But you said it was important! Yeah, they are! And to keep them safe, no matter what it takes. And there's a possibility of a cold front. I told her about the cold front, that's why you have heaters. But the heaters could fail, so I'm here to service them. So technically you're sleeping with the heaters? Guess so. But I don't want you to do that either. Yeah, cool. It's warm down here. Jackson, I love you. I love that you're doing this, but I also feel like I should call the guys at the motorfly now to come get you. And me. And all of us. Well... The stay in the inn is going to do what? I'm not inviting them to stay in the inn, I'm inviting them to stay in the bungalow, 150 feet away from the inn. I have a follicle. I'm gonna lock those two in a room and they are either coming out reconciled or in a body bag. If you give me them, I'm fine either way. Well, look who died and made you hailing notes. I call you hard to tell you love. That I'm not too far from home where I can hold you. Play you songs on my old guitar. Oh, I'm glad. Oh, I've been strained. The kites need a wind. We can go together till the very end. And last week is time well spent. It was getting too dark to film so it's the next day in this gloomy winter. I did however spend last night experimenting some more and sculpting new charms. I'm really happy with how this campfire and drippy mug turned out. Let's make some coffee now and clean up so that we can move on to designing the beads of the keychain. Initially, my plan was to paint the round window of the house yellow. But after doing a test piece last night, I'm not so sure anymore. I think I want to see what goes better with the beads and then decide. So, these are my prototype keychains. Remember how I said I was impulsive? I went ahead and made like 10 of each keychain only to decide days later that I'm not fully happy with them. So today, we are going to design something that I am 100% happy with and will not change my mind on. Each of these keychains took me about 15 to 20 minutes. So this does mean I'm doing like 10 hours of work. But I'd rather end up with something that I am proud of. There are still so many aspects of opening an online store like building the website, figuring out logistics, taxes. But I'm happy to finally not be in a state where I'm just feeling stuck and overwhelmed. Taking this first step to actually start making things is really exciting and kinda motivates me to tackle the other not-so-glamorous stuff. I hope you enjoy this new series and let's take it one step at a time. I'm not being evasive. I'm trying to remain mysterious so you still find me interesting 100 years from now.