elephantJuice: a crafting disaster

Monday, August 08, 2011

a crafting disaster

I love macarons, and I’m currently obsessed with the idea of sweet little macaron stitch markers. It’s been years since I played with Fimo and I was rather pleased with how cute and pretty my mini macarons looked when I’d finished modelling them. They do say that pride comes before a fall…

I popped them in my little toaster oven to bake, turned my back for few seconds to get some zip lock bags for the opened packets of clay, and when I turned back around I was greeted with a smoking toaster oven. Not good! It seems my trusty little toaster is hotter than I’d thought.

The pink ones went all bubbly and brown around the edges, but that’s nothing to how the blue ones fared…

Yikes!

I still desperately want my little macaron stitch markers, but I think for now I’ll take a little break with some spinning and come back to them later. I’m too sad about this disaster at the moment!

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Nat · 711 weeks ago

Oh no :( I love the idea of macaron stitch markers, that sounds so cute, so you should come back to them... After a while perhaps ;)
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elephantjuiced 73p · 711 weeks ago

I know, so disappointing! I'm definitely going to try again very soon though :)

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Julie · 711 weeks ago

oh no!! I agree that macarons stitch markers are a brilliant idea. They will work out, you'll figure out the right temp!

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elephantjuiced 73p · 711 weeks ago

I'll just have to watch them like a hawk next time!

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myhookandyarnadventure 4p · 711 weeks ago

The pink ones look amazing! I'm hungry now! I hope you can get the blue ones to work too!

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elephantjuiced 73p · 711 weeks ago

They look a little crispy, but thanks!

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Leah · 711 weeks ago

Yikes! That's frustrating, but I hope you get them working at some point! Maybe repurpose these as charcoal briquette stitch markers ;)
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elephantjuiced 73p · 711 weeks ago

Hehe, good idea for recycling them! It's so frustrating! I was so excited to have some tiny little macarons to play with. Oh well, next time :)

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mimilikestomakeprettystuff 29p · 711 weeks ago

ouch! Better luck next time!

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elephantjuiced 73p · 711 weeks ago

Thanks! It would be really bad luck to burn them again.

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Stacey · 711 weeks ago

oh, no! I sorta like the pink ones... like a macaroon that got too toasty in the oven :)
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elephantjuiced 73p · 711 weeks ago

Much too toasty! :)

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kiwiyarns 40p · 711 weeks ago

Poor you! They looked so cute!! Fimo is quite temperamental about temperature. It's Eric's favourite medium at the moment so we've been having lots of fun with it here too. I find the best thing is pop them in the oven once you've turned it off (I use up the heat from baking). Leave them in there and when the oven is cool you have perfect Fimo!

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elephantjuiced 73p · 711 weeks ago

It is quite temperamental! That's a great idea for "baking" them, thanks! It sounds much less dangerous than popping them in the toaster oven too. I'll try it out the next time I bake cupcakes. I finally got my hands on a Wiltons 1M icing tip so I'm raring to try my hand at some proper icing swirls!