Ahh.... The Good Life!

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I don't know if I've ever mentioned it, but I loooove mushrooms! I love to eat them, I love to look at them, and I love to craft them! I've sculpted several to go along with fairy vignettes I've done.

One I've never done is the elusive morel. Morel mushrooms are quite a delicacy around here, and many other parts of the US. They are as delicious as they are unusual.

Well, I got it in my head that I wanted to sculpt morels. I figured it would be a fairly simple type of thing to work on, as I'm out of practice. I was, however, mistaken.



I suppose, if I'd started with a larger mushroom, I might not have had as much trouble. But, I didn't start large, I started small. The cap of the mushroom was less than one inch, because I thought they would make great earrings! Which they would. Trying to sculpt such small crevices, though, was not so great.

So, I doubled my clay, and tried it on a larger scale. It worked much better that way, although, I still had to be careful, else my crevices would collapse. Much like the coal mines that gave so many WV men mesothelioma, but I digress.





I asked my yahoo group, COC, about forming the holes on the smaller ones, and got several good ideas. So, I'll have to play around, and see what works. I'll let you know what I come up with!