BENGALURU: When young 14-year-old Aimee Rajan visited ‘Madurodam’, a miniature park in the Netherlands, she was fascinated by the tiny replicas. This love for miniature art was rediscovered years later to start All Things Clay.
First she attempted only small pieces for herself and, when she grew more confident, she started to make tiny gifts for friends and family. People then began to ask her for customized pieces. With encouragement from her loving family, she created the Facebook page and logo for ‘All Things Clay’ on March 29, 2014. “Ever since it started, I’ve been looking at everything through clay tinted glasses!” she says.
Each creation is made out of imported polymer clay sourced in bulk from online craft sites. Her recreations of various food items are so realistic you wish they were edible. The most popular are her 3D miniatures made from photographs of celebrations, they are made to order.
Aimee’s love for animation is reflected in her cartoonistic miniatures.
Two Weeks of Work
Each requires two weeks of work, including sculpting, baking, detailing, glazing, photography and editing followed by packaging and then finally shipping. “I am self taught,” she says. “There are usually many trials and errors before the final product.”
Bulk orders are not easy, she says, with the largest being for 100 fridge magnets. “Once I burnt half the pieces of a bulk order and hardly had time left to redo it. Yet I think All Things Clay has been a memorable experience because it is not often that you get to do what you love for a living,” she says. “The best moments are when customers send me messages expressing their gratitude for the smile it brought on their giftee’s face.”