Homemade Polymer Clay
I got this clay recipe off the website below:
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf681300.tip.html
Polymer clay can be expensive, but it’s so easy to make, and you can color it with food coloring. The best food coloring is the paste colors that cake decorators use. They last forever.
The recipe is:
ONE PART CORNSTARCH TO ONE PART WHITE GLUE (LIKE ELMERS GLUE).
That’s it. If you want it thinner, just add water. How Cheap Is That.
By Ardis Barnes
Editor’s Note: There were many questions about this recipe. Fortunately, Ardis submitted another tip that may help people understand the process. Here it is:
MAKE YOUR OWN POLYMER CLAY CHEAP
Mix equal amounts of elmers glue and cornstarch. Form it into your favorite form and let it dry at least overnight. If you want to make beads, leave a toothpick in it while it dries.
I’m a Raggedy Ann buff so I make round flat forms to make Raggedy Ann pins and magnets. I do the faces with fine tip permanent markers. I just need red and black for that. The forms can be sprayed with sealer that comes in a spray can meant for clay type crafts. It can be colored with food coloring too. The best food coloring is the paste type that’s used for cake decorating, and it lasts forever. How easy is this, Ha!
Additional Notes:
1. All Glue based clays should not be baked. They are air dry only.
2. The thickness of the glue will affect the type of clay you end up with. A fine thin glue will give you a look of porcelain.
3. You can add acrylic paint for the colour at the time you mix your clay.
4. Your options for colour are endless.
5. Projects will shrink. Keep this in mind
6. The clay will keep for months if wrapped tightly in the fridge.
7. Projects will last for years if kept dry.
8. Seal with Minwax water based varnish.(Gloss, Satin or matt) and they will survive forever.
9. OK. The glue is the polymer.
10. The cornstarch is the filler. Could be bread or flour or a mix of fine grain substances…. Salt, baking soda etc.
The Sunni Hate Machine
If you read an article on AlterNet you would think that a Sunni tribe leader was the next George Washington. Kaissar Saady al-Juboory killed two US soldiers and injured three others when he says he was a pregnant women being dragged out of a house by her hair. The Sunni tribes are having a hay day with this. They think Kaissar is a national hero. Here’s where they’re wrong.
Kaissar broke his oath as a soldier when he shoot his own colleagues. This woman was in no apparent danger other then being dragged. Sharia law also states that a woman is worth 1/3 of a man so he he shouldn’t have been so outraged. Early reports have come out saying that guy may be part of an extremist Sunni independence organization.
This man is a killer. He has killed his own comrades. He should be put up for trial for his war crimes.