Tiny Food Chefs

(J) I love to cook real food, and salsa dance (I can never resist a good cha-cha). Hopefully the effects of the two cancel each other out. (S) Whenever I have the time, I like to make real food (especially baked goodies), go hiking, catch baseball games, and explore the city.

(J + S) Polymer clay. I always tell myself I'll have time to make other items, but it always comes back to little food.

(J) One of two pandora stations: 1) seeded with classic salsa or 2) seeded with insanely happy music from the 80s. I also adore listening to books read by the awesome volunteers at librivox.org, especially the Sherlock Holmes and the PG Wodehouse. (S) Depends on my mood, but one standard each week is Dancing with the Stars.

(J) I have hazy memories of fingerpainted portraits (lots of purple), sun-melted crayon blobs, and a glued-stick reindeer with a red bow. I clearly remember coming home, tearing the wrapping off my first packages of polymer clay, and immediately setting to work on some Barbie-sized burgers. (S) The first piece I made into a necklace was a whole bunch of strawberries I made when I was 12, and I strung them onto a necklace with some bright green beads - I had to re-string it once, but it's still on my jewelry rack.

(J) I love custom requests- particularly custom cakes, or really weird foods, since they invariably have a great back story. Nothing better than giggling the entire time I'm sculpting a piece. (S) Custom requests with great stories behind them. People will often come to us with a photo or a specific description of a food they always used to have with a friend or family member, and we love to hear about the story behind it, as strong connections to the food always makes a piece more meaningful & memorable for both us and the customer.

People always ask us what we'll do when we run out of types of food to sculpt. All we can say is, there's still a whole world of food to tackle.

(Photo by Angela Skeeles-Worley.)