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Happy Donut Day!

6/3/2013

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Today is "Donut Day", the day to go buy a dozen or two, and stuff yourself silly with donuts. 
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Actually, I'm ahead of the game, since we went to Timmies last night for a ten-pack of Timbits, just so I'd have a proper box to cut up and make into a doll-size donut box. That was after an hour or so in the kitchen making the delicious-looking sugary confections out of polymer clay.
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I mixed some beige, white, and orange clay to a nice "dough-like" colour, using my eraser donuts as inspiration. Then I rolled out equal-sized balls, which I flattened, then worked a hole into the middle with the round end of an old paintbrush. Next I googled "donut" on the Internet for some photo inspiration, and was blown away by the colours of icing and sprinkles!  Next I selected colours for "icing", flattened them into very thin circles, cut a hole in the middle with a straw, and smoothed it onto the "donut". I personally prefer plain donuts with no icing or glaze at all, but if they had to have icing, I chose to decorate several with just plain "nuts or coconut". Then I went crazy with the icing and sprinkle colours, cutting each tiny sprinkle from very thinly-rolled bits of coloured clay. I was careful not to over-bake, setting the oven 25 degrees lower than the instructions suggest, and then lowering it another 25 degrees when I put the tray into the oven. I checked the oven after ten minutes, then every five after that, and there was no change in the colour. After cooling, I brushed on some very thinned-down golden acrylic paint to give a bit more life to the uniform dough colour, then finished with a matte varnish.   Yummmm!!
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christina link
6/3/2013 03:26:34 am

Oh, that chocolate glazed is making me hungry!

Thank you for showing your work space too -- I now have a great idea for how to store my clay colors.

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Inma
6/3/2013 05:31:18 am

They are just perfect. When I saw the first photo, I thought they were real ! I can see you had a lot of fun making them.

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Margo
6/3/2013 05:17:47 pm

Yummy ! Your donuts look delicious (and very real). What a great way to store clay. Now I think I need to go to Timmies for a box of inspiration ! :)

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designdreamer
7/25/2022 08:53:48 am

You and your creations never cease to amaze me!

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