It was during a daydream about going back to Turkey when I came up with this ceramic piece with the leaf. Somehow, I relate these colors to my home town I guess.

While I continue my travel preparations at full speed, I am trying to find a peace of mind. At one side, there is seeing my parents after two years and on the other, there is leaving my love here for two months. It feels like locking the door shut and leaving a kitty cat behind.

Mina is a sweet baby girl three months old. She couldn’t move to her own room yet but her room is being prepared now by her mother and father. The room will even have a cloudy sky ceiling. I am, on the other hand, helping with some details.

I made the first designs for the switchplates (covered with polymer clay). Next I will design the door and drawer handles.

I had mentioned about how to mix ivory-like polymer clay in my previous post. Here is how I made use of that clay. I rolled the clay with the pasta machine at about 2 mm thickness.

Cutting the clay sheet along the lid of a box.

Small triangles out of red and violet will add some color to the box. I baked these for 5 minutes and left them to cool.

While waiting for the triangles to cool down, I add a figure and various other shapes.

Well now is the time to add the triangles. When I decide the decorations are enough, I bake the lid.

My favorite toy in my childhood was a figurine of a mountain climber. As I grew, I learned that the figurine was a gift to my father from one of his friends and that it was not to be scratched with a pen since it was made of ivory. Then one day a documentary taught me of the elephants being killed for ivory. I could not even bear to look at the figurine out of embarrassment for a long time. I even thought of burying it in the backyard. After all these years I still couldn’t give up my liking of the ivory tones which reminds me some very happy childhood memories.That’s why I was so excited when I made this faux ivory out of polymer clay. Ivory look without the feeling of guilt. There are a few ways to obtain ivory tones with polymer clay. My most successful try was a mix of Fimo’s sahara and translucent white. Although you can try darker/lighter combinations, I think the best ivory tone comes with 4 to 1 translucent to sahara ratio.

I finally finished my second batch of ceramic masks. These masks are starting to be an addiction for me. Most probably I will be publishing another batch of masks soon.