Stupid Oven-Safe Clay

Is only oven-safe if you're smart enough to work it.

For Christmas this year, I decided to make some Christmas ornaments for my friends. Kris is German, and has this weird Christmas Pickle tradition, so I made her a Christmas Pickle. I made Jesse a Red rose, with a blue stem.

And Jen, got a Very Sad Christmas Penguin. He was a very cute Christmas Penguin. He had a dark purple body, blue feet, a yellow tummy, blue eyes, and a red Santa Hat. If I do say myself, he was very, very cute.

So, I set the oven to the right temp, and put them in the oven to back this morning, while I made homemade pie crust for the apple pie I made. After about hour, I went to check on them.

THEY WERE MELTED! They were all a giant melted mass on the bottom of my plate. Someone had packaged up the wrong kind of clay in my package. I'd even written a little poem to go with the Pickle and Rose, and The Very Sad Christmas Penguin has his very own story I made up for him, in children's book style, with little illustrations.

Now, I have to try over again. *Hmmph*