Clay House 25. Couching Elephant Babysitting Teddy Bear

Did you have fun & happy christmas? Didn’t you guys have more fun and felt happier when you were joining our Clay house event? Now here comes another challenge for you to enjoy!

As you may all know by now, if your title gets selected, you are going to win a Clay house Toy! It’s On Now!

How to participate :

Join in our event by posting a comment below this post of your Clay house blog 25′s title along with your e-mail address.

Or If you are familiar with @Samsungimaging, tweet your own title with hash tag, #NewyearEvent!

Please remember that the blog title has to be written in English.

Event Prize :

If your title gets selected, you will be receiving clay doll of Clay house Episode 25!!

Event period :

~ 2010. 12. 31 GMT 00: 00

Winner :

Mylene Manuel (Congratulation!) l The title is ‘Couching Elephant Babysitting Teddy Bear’.

Today Lazy Elephant wants to be a baby sitter for Teddy bear. It was hard decision on him and he really wanted to work perfectly as an excellent baby sitter. But Once he sat on the red sofa, he could not control himsef! Look at him, he is just being lazy like all days.

Look at him!

Think he is going to fall asleep…

Poor Teddy bear

Congratulation again, Mylene Manuel! Creative and funny title that we have never had before! Thanks for participating in our event! We truly appreciated it :)

Our third mission is ended. You have 2 more clay event posts to enjoy! So stay with us & meet the newest new year event on 3th of Jan in 2011.

Clay house author’s Talk & Event notification

Samsungimaging blog meets our favourite author, 25plan. He has been visiting us with clay toy and its making video since 1 year ago.

So we, samsungimaging arrange a time to know more about 25plan. So let’s hear him out!

Below is the Interview video with 25plan.

Q. How did you start making clay toy? A.I have been working with clay since I was young. I like the texture of the clay and how it feels when I put it against my skin. Ultimately,my long time hobby became a job that I now do for a living. Q. what is your major studying in university? A. Regardless of my love for clay art, I studied ‘Industrial Design’ at the university.
Q. How did you start ‘Clay House’? A. I had many thoughts debating whether to keep clay art as a hobby or not. It was not easy to keep my first thought on keeping clay art as a hobby when I started out. Many of my friends who enjoy working with clay art were leaving during that time. One day by chance, I went on a trip to Japan where I met Japanese people who love handicrafts and where I was able to marvel at their skills. At that very moment,I realized that I should continue to keep up my skills and make more beautiful clay arts. I have a plan to inherit my art skills in the end.
Q. What is an attractive quality of clay compared to other materials? A. Clay does not harden easily.It’s very soft like our skin and it has a variety of different colors I can mix together to make other colors.
Q. What is an unattractive quality of clay? A.Because it is too soft and does not harden easily, it is not easy to deliver and sell outside.

Q. What is one word I would use to complete the sentence below? A.Clay house is fun!
Q. What can I say to those who like to make clay art but feel difficulty in it sometimes. A. Like the saying, ‘the beginning is half of the whole,’ once you feel like making a clay toy, you are almost done, so just have a lot of fun making clay toys! If you often do that and remind yourself of the saying when it gets difficult, you are going to become expert one day.

How was meeting with 25plan?

If you want to know more about 25plan’s work, go to http://www.25plan.com

Before you meet the next clay house on blog 23, we are going to make an announcement.

We, samsungimaging is happy to celebrate upcoming Christmas and New year with you.And We have been appreciating more than enough for you that visit us!

So we have arranged an event for you to enjoy!

Our first event is going to start on 13th Dec ’10.

You can check more details below. Then, see you on 13th Dec ’10 on Clay house blog 23!

New year in Edinburgh

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Hello, Twenty Ten! To celebrate the new year 2010, I went on a trip to Scotland that I’d been looking forward for so long. In Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, they have the ‘Hogmany festival’ at New year’s Eve which is one of the most celebrated winter and new year festivals in Europe.

 

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Edinburgh isn’t a big city and the streets aren’t so complicated so you can fully enjoy the city by walking around. There were 2 things that surprised me when I arrived at Edinburgh. One was the pile of snow which you can hardly find in Britain and the other is the freezing cold weather; no wonder why there was such massive snow! But thankfully the sky was very clear and pretty that made me feel fresh while I was walking round.

 

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When you walk along Prince Street which separates the old and new town of Edinburgh, you’ll spot the giant eye-catching architecture burnt like black color. It’s the Scott’s Monument. They say that there are many mountains that consist of rocks in Scotland. Different from Britain where houses are built with bricks, buildings in Scotland are built of rocks dug out from the mountains. These architectures made out of rock seem to play a part in the antique and classical atmosphere of Edinburgh.

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The whole city was hustle and bustle getting ready for the Hogmany festival. The concert stage was installed with the Edinburgh castle as the background, and over a background of thousand years old town buildings various rides and ice rink were available. The harmony between unharmonious things seemed very attractive.

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When I was walking down Royal Mile crowded with most of the tourist sights, I was able to run into a couple of street artists. Especially, the man who is taking pictures with the tourists dressed like Mel Gibson from Brave Heart wearing the traditional Scottish costume is a celebrity at Royal Miles. Despite the cold weather, he was wearing a tartan skirt and was posing with a loud roar each time he was taking a picture with the tourists. I could tell how much he prides and loves Scotland from his passionate behavior.

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Among many things that represent Scotland, probably the check pattern is the most known. You can easily find souvenir shops that sell items with check patterns anywhere in Edinburgh. From 100% cashmere clothing and accessories to mugs, dolls etc… it seemed like everything you can make with check pattern was gathered. Even a cute dog with tartan check outfit!

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80,000 people were waiting for the new year’s countdown dancing and singing along with the DJ. As if the whole city were a club, it was the moment when excitement was at a peak with the festive fever and excitement for the new year regardless of age and nationality.

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At Royal mile, as seen from the picture above, the giant candle became a chandelier and lit up the sky. Freezing tourists gathered around the candle to warm their frozen hands and feet.

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In Scotland, you can find tradition and people who proudly live the tradition. Following the tradition is their everyday life and something ordinary for them. I guess this is the reason why every year tourists flood to Scotland and Edinburgh and return home impressed, promising to visit again.

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LET’S SNOW AGAIN!

News from Poland: snow is falling constantly. After New Year Eve, which I celebrated at the great „boogie night” party, I think that this snow would twist around till next year :)

Today I captured my early – morning walk. It is something special in the winter’ aura. You’ ll suppose that we are only pawns in hole strange world.

After this walk I realised how fresh & clean is all around. Since then I felt new energy, which would stay till spring – I hope :) After many many gray days, rainy weeks turned my mood into one deep disaster, the strong cotrast of white and colours came out of the blue. I was fascinating so much. How magic the world is if one – the simpliest – colour could change everything?
Just look:

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