Soot Sprite Charm
If you’ve seen the Studio Ghibli movies “Spirited Away” and/or “My Neighbor Totoro,” you’ll recognize these charms as soot sprites, and konpeitō, the Japanese candy that forms their diet! I made these soot sprites by carefully attaching individually formed clay spikes to a clay sphere, and for the eyes, I attached a teeeeeeny black sphere of clay to a larger, oval white one! (Yes, I lost several of the teeny clay pieces in the process because they’re so damn small xD)
The konpeitō (the little star-looking doodads in the mini glass jar) were pretty straightforward – I used the colors I saw in “Spirited Away,” but there are so many more!
For anyone wondering what in the world soot sprites are, here’s a description from the Ghibli Wiki:
“[Soot sprites] are small, round balls made from the soot that dwells in old and abandoned houses and leave black dirt in their wake. If the house becomes inhabited, they decide if the inhabitants are nice people. If they are, they will leave.”
If you’ve seen the Studio Ghibli movies “Spirited Away” and/or “My Neighbor Totoro,” you’ll recognize these charms as soot sprites, and konpeitō, the Japanese candy that forms their diet! I made these soot sprites by carefully attaching individually formed clay spikes to a clay sphere, and for the eyes, I attached a teeeeeeny black sphere of clay to a larger, oval white one! (Yes, I lost several of the teeny clay pieces in the process because they’re so damn small xD)
The konpeitō (the little star-looking doodads in the mini glass jar) were pretty straightforward – I used the colors I saw in “Spirited Away,” but there are so many more!
For anyone wondering what in the world soot sprites are, here’s a description from the Ghibli Wiki:
“[Soot sprites] are small, round balls made from the soot that dwells in old and abandoned houses and leave black dirt in their wake. If the house becomes inhabited, they decide if the inhabitants are nice people. If they are, they will leave.”
If you’ve seen the Studio Ghibli movies “Spirited Away” and/or “My Neighbor Totoro,” you’ll recognize these charms as soot sprites, and konpeitō, the Japanese candy that forms their diet! I made these soot sprites by carefully attaching individually formed clay spikes to a clay sphere, and for the eyes, I attached a teeeeeeny black sphere of clay to a larger, oval white one! (Yes, I lost several of the teeny clay pieces in the process because they’re so damn small xD)
The konpeitō (the little star-looking doodads in the mini glass jar) were pretty straightforward – I used the colors I saw in “Spirited Away,” but there are so many more!
For anyone wondering what in the world soot sprites are, here’s a description from the Ghibli Wiki:
“[Soot sprites] are small, round balls made from the soot that dwells in old and abandoned houses and leave black dirt in their wake. If the house becomes inhabited, they decide if the inhabitants are nice people. If they are, they will leave.”