After moving house about three months ago we still have a few boxes (as you do) around the place that need unpacking. I finally got to one of them the other day which was full of books from when I was a kid. After sorting through the books and putting them in K’s room I found that there was a small bag of ‘bits’ in the bottom of the box. I didn’t get much of a chance to go through it but as soon as K discovered it she had a great time. It turns out that these ‘bits’ were all those left over tiny toys, games markers and dolls clothes that were odd and at some point in the past 20 years they’d been stuffed in this bag and into the box of books. Here’s what the bits look like:
To most of us this is a pile of junk but to K it was a bag of treasure!
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I looked closer but amongst the treasure I found the very first polymer clay items I ever made. I must have been about 10 years old when I made these and I remember the event very well. I didn’t remember these items though and am surprised to see them still in tact!
There was these two funky hats:
This lovely little jug:
and this is a little bucket of water which was originally attached to a fluro clown with very long arms.
The funny thing is, I made these at a friend’s birthday party and next weekend I’ll be going along to a special person’s birthday party and showing her and her friends how to make things using fimo! Things have come full circle, yay for little treasures.
If the big sellers aren’t your fave, I reckon still make a few anyway cos if people buy them then at least the money is helping SIM projects.”
