Gabriola Island

Last weekend I had the awesome opportunity to go to Gabriola Island and stay at a friend's fancy cabin.  Gabriola is just a 20 minute ferry ride out of Nanaimo, BC.  

Location of Gabriola Island, BC.

If you are on the west coast, I strongly recommend you check out Gabriola.  The place is amazing!  Real west coast vibe (aka rich hippy central), amazing scenery and sea life!  There was even bioluminescent algae.  If you have never seen it, imagine that if you stir the water it sparkles like... sparkles.  It's incredible! We went swimming in it and it was so worth the cold.  

These are starfish.

Put 'em up.

There were so many different types of starfish.

These rocks form through salt crystal growth.

More starfish! Can you believe it!

It's really just a beautiful place.

Miniature Dollhouse Sushi

Polymer clay miniature sushi

Last night I made some mini sushi. Check out these california roll cane and salmon tutorials for extra inspiration. I used them to help figure out how to make these.


California Roll Cane: I used the tutorial (linked above) to help guide me. The main "ingredient" is the rice canes. The rice are translucent clay wrapped in a mixture of white and translucent mixed together. After you have the rice, make some vegetable clay worms to put in the middle of the roll.

After I rolled out and cut the mini California rolls I used a pin to texture them.

Salmon: To make the salmon I layered white and orange clay. Both the orange and white have translucent mixed in.  After it is layered I mushed and stretched it until it looks like salmon. I also smear the white lines to make them look less perfect.

dollhouse miniature sushi