These jellyfish charms are super cute and I’ve been eager to try this out for a while.  The biggest change I made is that the tentacles and the top (body?) of mine are separate, allowing for some movement.

But do you notice that one at the end?  That blue one that looks a little lonely?

Notice his partner’s tentacles there below him?  That’s because when I was taking the charms out of the ice water I dropped one of the jellyfish bodies (heads?).  This isn’t anything unusual, when I’m working on something chances are I’m going to drop it at least once.  But in this case it seems to have landed in a black hole.  I’ve swiffered the kitchen twice and moved everything around and I still can’t find it.  I’m beginning to think the blue ones are cursed because the first pair got scorched:

So lesson one here is: tenting foil or parchment paper over your piece helps, but isn’t always enough, and the translucent clay really is more vulnerable.

To help with the scorching I buried the second round of charms in baking soda.  This worked quite nicely, though a little bit of it did stick in some of the liquid clay on the tentacles.  It’s not too noticeable.

(Lesson two is beware of black holes, but that might be a localized problem.)

The tentacles of mine are probably a little more vulnerable than the ones in the video.  I’ve done a few cautious tests and they’re pretty resilient, but probably wouldn’t hold up to being compressed.  I plan to make some others that are more hearty.