look, i'm blogging!

These are all pictures from my very first blog post (which I have now edited).

i made these little fimo clay creations when i was in training for a new job a few years ago. the trainer explained to us on the first day that there are different types of learners. one type is a kin aesthetic learner, which as i understood it, means that one listens and learns better while doing something with their hands. on all the tables for the trainees, there were several boxes of modeling clay to play with if we wanted to. so i started with this modeling clay, and it turns out, not only do i listen well while i play with it (i haven't fallen asleep in class ONCE in 3 months!) i'm actually pretty good with the stuff! i started making little versions of everything i could see or think of. everyone in class commented on them, but at the end of the day i would squish them and put them back in the box of clay. then my trainer, martin, pulled me aside and told me one day that i should attempt to do something with my little clay creations. he told me to go get some bakeable clay that i could cook and play around with that so that i could save my creations. i took him up on it and headed to the craft store. he was conviced that i could actually make money off of the little things, but i'm really just doing it for fun.

so i started baking my creations, and learning about tools people use, and watching how to videos on youtube. it's really fun! i've even started doing it at home for fun sometimes. i looked it up on line to see if it's something common, and a lot of people actually do it. they make tiny clay miniatures for dollhouses! some of the artists out there are AMAZING, and make a lot of money doing what they do.

so today at the city library there is a 'dollhouse festival'. it is a fundraiser for something called the children's justice center, or CJC. it's a place where children who have been sexually or seriously physically abused go to be interviewed. their interviews are recorded and the idea is that they only have to tell their story and all the details once. it's traumatizing to a child to have to tell and retell a story of abuse. they relive the experience each time they tell the details. the CJC eluminates all the extra people. one interviewer talks to the child while a detective and anyone else who needs to be involved watches on a screen in another room. the place is just a big house, that has been converted into the center and there are tons of toys and homey, welcoming rooms. the children can feel very comfortable there.

anyway! there is a fund raiser for the CJC this weekend called the dollhouse festival. the festival was looking for people to donate dollhouses and dollhouse accessories to be auctioned off to raise money for the CJC. i thought i would go out on a limb, and i donated my little clay creations to the festival. i don't know if they will sell or not, but i thought, hey, if they are popular, what better cause?

well, i seem to have rambled enough. i'm going to go check the festival later today and see how my little guys did. hope you like the pictures! this is just a few of them. the end.