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Published: 2012-07-19 17:14:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 495; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 5
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Made entirely from polymer clay and backed with a light weight pog (+10 to awesome if you know what pogs are!) this fun pendant looks like a citrus fruit made from rainbows; whats even better than that? It glows in the dark and under a black light!$10.00
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This is so hypnotically gorgeous! I've made sculpey fruit charms before, but never thought about using colors not found in nature. Neat!
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I know what you mean though: I guess I should have put measurements on these: they are about 2" in diameter so they are pretty big pendants. I was mostly messing around with making skinner blends with polymer clay and it ended up looking like this; I didn't think to call it fruit until we saw it glow in the dark and it looked like a lime.
by the way; I have that art you sent me up around my work area; it makes me smile every time I see it!
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I thought of another question; Do you use some sort of drill to make the holes? Also with the little charms like earrings or the yoshi egg bracelete, how do you get the little metal findings in?
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I really am loving all these questions, by the way! (I'm not being sarcastic or anything, I really mean it!)
I use a small dremel tool to make the holes in the pendants and ivy leaves, but for stuff like the yoshi eggs and mushrooms I use something called a head pin that looks like a tiny nail (see some here: [link] ) and I either make the charm then push a headpin through it carefully to make sure it comes out where i want it to, or in the case of the mushrooms I make the stem and the cap separately then slide the heading through the stem and then add the cap; I found that this helps the mushroom to keep its shape better than smushing it all together
I really love using the head pins because I have seen some charms be made with just a pin like shaped like this: -O be inserted into the top, and while that can hold for a while it isn't as secure, even when it has been reinforced with super glue or something of the sort. With the head pins the nail head part of the pin prevents anything from sliding off. Combine that with a wrapped loop at the top and you have a very sturdy charm 
er, sorry; that drug on for a bit, didn't it? lol
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so you make the howls before or after toasting them in the oven?
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I drill them after
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interesting. Must be very hard, have to be super careful.
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it is actually very easy to drill through polymer clay after it has been baked. I have a marble cheese cutting board that I got at good will and it has a very convenient groove in it that I position the bead or pendant over so that the drill doesn't hit stone and it takes a matter of seconds and the drilling is done.
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Cool! Also do you back the charms with the Head pin in them and then remove it or just make the hole and bake without the head pin? (Also thanks for watching my gallery)
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no worries for the 
I bake them with the headpin in it
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are they easy to remove after? or do you have to wiggle them free when they cool.
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you do have to wiggle them a bit, but I don't usually take the headpins out. When I make beads I use thick pieces of scrap wire to make the holes while baking and then take them out; there is a product that I don't remember the exact name of that is used to repel polymer clay, and if you ever want to be certain that the clay will come off you can use that.
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you don't take the head pins out? so then how do you put the little findingd in so you can make it into a charm? O.o
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The headpins I use are about 2" long; my charms are rarely over and inch long, so I use the tail or wire that sticks out the top to make a loop which turns it into a charm
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