Charming Miniature Creature Totems Crafted From Clay That Bakes in the Oven

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I’ve loved minia­tures ever since I was a kid. There’s some­thing so sat­is­fy­ing about being able to hold an object in the palm of your hand (espe­cial­ly since my hands are so small). This idea is what attracts me to the work of Ramala­ma Crea­tures. Sculpt­ed by a cre­ative named Ram­inta, she crafts ani­mal totems using poly­mer clay (aka oven bake clay) and then paints them to resem­ble adorable hedge­hogs, col­or­ful birds, curi­ous rac­coons, and much more.

“The process of mak­ing every crea­ture and ani­mal is very per­son­al to me,” she writes, “it takes dozens of hours to com­plete the sculp­ture until it is excep­tion­al­ly care­ful­ly hand-paint­ed with max­i­mum of details and fin­ished with glossy var­nish. Usu­al­ly, it takes days to cre­ate one sin­gle piece and I just love to see each ani­mal com­ing alive in the process of creation.”

With such amaz­ing atten­tion to detail, it’s no won­der that Ram­inta’s sculp­tures sell fast. Fol­low her on Insta­gram to learn when her next col­lec­tion will be avail­able in her Etsy shop.