When first deciding to try my hand at clay embellishments (primarily clay faces thus far) I was too big of a wimp to immediately start with polymer clay. I thought it would be too much trouble, too difficult, etc. So I decided to try out air-dry clay instead. When I went to my local A. C. Moore to purchase some, I realized that most of the air-dry clays they carried were too light and soft. They didn’t have the “heft” I typically associate with clay items. Just as I was about to give up, I saw a package of the Das brand of air-dry clay, which looks like this:

I have the terra cotta color and the white, but so far have only used the terra cotta. I store it in the fridge all sealed up in about three layers because I’m afraid it will get hard otherwise. The only thing I don’t like about the terra cotta is that once dry, it’s a much more subdued color than you usually associate with terra cotta embellishments. I suspect this is because I have not glazed it or otherwise polished it. They just look really “earthy”, which is cool with me.