Miniature Baguette Keychain

Yesterday I made a miniature baguette. This must be the most useless hobby. Here I am, a poor hungry grad student, and I am making fake miniature food. Anyway, I think the bread is looking good. Of course it could always be better.

To make these useless things you will need:

• white, translucent and beige polymer clay.** EDIT (no beige..just white and trans..looks much better)
• oil free pastels (yellows, browns ***EDIT and white for flour dusting)
• knife, toothpick and paintbrush

Clay is usually about $3/packet (here in Canada), and at an art store you can pick up pastels for about $1 a piece. I had a hard time finding good oil free pastels. With these supplies you could easily make 30-50 baguettes...

 STEP 1: First mix the clay together on the math bio text book you only reference on occasion. I use about 1:1:1 ratios. That is a lie, I just use whatever.

 STEP 2: Shape the clay into baguettes. Make little triangles with the toothpick. 

 STEP 3: mix some pastel together to make a bread color. You need yellow or it will not come out looking nice.

 Take a paintbrush and brush the pastel (its more like colored chalk) onto the clay. Leave the triangles color free.

 STEP 4: bake for about 30min. If you want to make a key chain insert a ring before baking.