The other day, my love has called me at work and told me that almost all of the Turkish products in the market that sells them had past their expiration dates. Then he suggested to adopt Chinese cuisine at home. We like Chinese food he says and Chinese markets are everywhere. For a moment, I thought I lost him. I thought he was in love with a Chinese girl too. I dived into the conversation right there and urged him to talk to me openly if he had a relationship with a Chine girl. Then I got warning about not taking him seriously. He was only trying to find a solution to our kitchen problems. Moreover, he just loves me, a lot. Then he told that he already bought a wok, sesame oil, rice wine, black vinegar, ginger, etc… As soon as we hanged up, I started looking for cooking classes in the local community college. When I get home, a part of the kitchen was already allocated to Chinese cooking, and he was already preparing kung pao beef with a recipe from internet. I was still not convinced till I ate. It was surprisingly delicious.I wanted to make a flower cane for some time. I thought a star-shaped flower would be the easiest. You need three different colored polymer clays. I chose metallic white, blue and orange (metallic orange is prepared by mixing metallic yellow and opaque orange).

Form the white clay into a long cylinder and divide into five equal length pieces. Then shape the cylinders to triangular cross-section with your fingers as shown.

Prepare a cylinder of equal length with the orange clay too.

Apply the same method to prepare five triangular cylinders from the blue clay too and fill in the gaps with these.

Lastly, roll a thin sheet of blue clay to wrap the cane to obtain the pattern shown in the top picture.