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Thursday, November 15, 2012

SF Etsy is ready for the Holidays

Shopping season is here! Can you feeling it in the air?

This year let's again Shop Handmade & Give Art! :) When you buy handmade, you are giving an item that was designed and skillfully made with love and dedication. Best of all, its likely you can have it custom made, adding that personal touch you cant find in big stores.

'Tis is the Season San Francisco Etsy team is sharing coupons with everybody, go on etsy.com and type SFETSYHOLIDAY2012 to find wonderful sales and unique items for you and your loved ones.

Bellow are four great coupons:

10% OFF everything at our shop: ClayCatShop

10% OFF everything for the creative at heart in AmberThreads

FREE Shipping at EkoJewelryDesign beautiful sterling silver jewelry
(Eko's coupon is: SFETSYHOLIDAY12)

FREE Shipping at Dorklandia for fun and cute gifts!

Happy Shopping!
xox

Adriana

Thursday, June 9, 2011

The Making of a custom Cake Topper

To achieve fantastic results, we like to work closely with our clients. Bellow is a quick look at our creative process:

1) A client contacts our studio with an idea, we discuss the possibilities and submit a draft in pencil, to make sure we are going in the same direction.

2) Then we talk color scheme, and try our color selection in another draft:

3) Once the client loves the drawing, we make a structure that we cover with clay and bake, then we cover it again with white clay, work most of the shape details, and bake it again to obtain our main shape.

4) So there we have a wonderful 3D canvas to do our magic! its time to add the first colors and all the clay elements before another trip to the oven.

5) Once it has cool down (we dont like to burn our fingers) its time for all sort of details with acrylics. This part of the process can (usually does) take long hours of work, due to the complexity and size of the piece and details.

6) The last step is to apply varnish to protect the piece and add a little gloss to it... and, ...Voilà there you have it, the result of great communication, professionalism and lots and lots of love! ♥

In this particular topper we added a wooden base so the client can keep the sculpture as a keepsake after the party. When ordering please allow 8-10 weeks prior to your event.

Until next time! ♥

Adriana :)

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Yanomami Mom, an Sculpture with roots.

ClayCatShop's Yanomami Mom
Copyright © 2011 ClayCatShop

When the Smooshers challenged me to create a tribal piece last month, I decided to look for inspiration in my dear Venezuela. Memories of the Yanomamis started floating in my mind, I was lucky enough to be able to visit the Amazons many times while my family lived there, in the Bauxiven Camp (They lived there 3 years, and I got to visit often! :) lucky girl).

My sister next to a Yanomami house :)

The Yanomami tribe is one of the last primitive living Indians on our planet. The population is about 20.000 people. 12.000 in Venezuela and ca. 8.000 Indians in Brazil. The Yanomami are believed to be the most primitive, culturally intact people in existence in the world. Their numbering system is one, two, and more than two. They cremate their dead, then crush and drink their bones in a final ceremony intended to keep their loved ones with them forever. They are hunters and gatherers who also tend small garden plots. They are one of the most successful groups in the Amazon rain forest to gain a superior balance and harmony with their environment.
Text from © Instituto Socioambiental. You can find their web site here: http://www.socioambiental.org/e/

Visiting the Yanomami

The Yanomami indians in Venezuela are great people, always happy to see you. There was a Yanomami who would come to my parents house in the camp every week asking for Malta (a non-alcoholic carbonated drink made from Malta) he would talk funny Spanish but he made his wishes known, and when my father's contract was up and they were moving back to Margarita Island, the Yanomami "Neron" as he was called, asked my father if he could leave my sister there! Imagine my father's face! LOL it was a family joke for a long time. :)

More about the Yanomami tribes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%CC%A7nomam%C3%B6
Sadly while looking for information online I came across this site:
Learn about The Yanomami tribe in Brazil
The Yanomami Indians, specially in Brazil are in danger. Follow the link and learn more.

Listen to Caballo Viejo (Beautiful Venezuelan music) here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r8HEiNO0Bk&feature=player_embedded

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Oh, l'amour! ;-)

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Let's play!!!

Monday, January 31, 2011

Come here little wolfy...

"Little Red Riding Hood..."

Once upon a time, after reading many "love cures all" self help books, our sweet "Little Red Riding Hood" decided to visit her grandmother's place again. Poor little wolf, he wasnt prepared, Little Red Riding Hood, caught him off guard and gave him a powerful "loving" hug!

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