Ep.13 Making a SPOOKY item; inspired by Snow White?

[@johughes2331]

If you put a worm handle on them then they become lidded mugs! Cute ❤

[@KellieLStimson]

My first thought. 🍎 🍏

[@Angela-lo5bw]

And you can take off the lid to use it as a teabag saucer.

[@jcortese3300]

That is brilliant!

[@snail9231]

I had this same thought!

[@anneheyer3194]

Mine too, and the lid keeps your tea hot

[@karenneill9109]

The reason fresh fruit was on display was because it was expensive, especially out of season. My Mom told me that in the40’s, getting a fresh orange was a special treat. They each got an orange in their stocking, it was a big deal! So, having fruit to display meant that you had money to spend on luxuries. Sugar blocks used to be displayed the same way, as did tea in fancy tea canisters.

[@airenesmiler6624]

Literally conspicuous consumption.

[@firstnamekaty8830]

Is that why my Memaw used to decorate with plastic fruit?! I thought she just liked it🤷‍♀️ Makes sense though bc she lived through the depression and it really affected her. She used to hoard food in her house pretty bad. She would go to the store and buy more every week. When she had to move into an assisted living home in the early 2000s, we had to clean out her house and my job was to clean out her huge chest freezer and I found steaks from the 60s🤦‍♀️ She said “They been good and frozen! They’re still good!”😂

[@kitterzy]

My mom displayed plastic fruit in the 50s, 60s, and part of the 70s. I had to dust the velvet-flocked fruit when I was little in the 1970s. It was a decoration in the middle of her formal dining room table. I also remember seeing Good House Keeping and Better Homes & Gardens magazines l in the 1970s having artificial fruit as a decoration.

[@noneofbizorjuliejt6466]

Yes that what my mom told me too! My mom was born in 1926. She ALWAYS had a bowl of fake fruit. She also said Pineapple was a sign of welcome and it evolved to a bowl of fruit was a sign of welcome and hospitality. If you could afford fruit you could afford to be hospitable and entertain. We had wood fruit, fruit carved from stone like marble, sometimes the marble was dyed like red for the apples. She even had some vegetables like purple eggplants and green zucchinis. She had plastic but she hated them because she said they looked cheap! Lol Thanks for giving me back these sweet memories.

[@hypergirl6703]

Yeah, I remember hearing that there was a thing with pineapples because they were "exotic" and hard to grow and thus, expensive. People would want to display a pineapple at their party to show off, but most people couldn't afford to buy them. So, rental pineapples became a thing. People would pay for a pineapple to show off at their party, then the pineapple would be sent off to its next event

[@igeekling]

Up here where we have winters that involves the entire world outside being dead and covered in snow and ice. Apples is one of the few things that can be stored and kept as a reminder of the season where it is teaming with life, abundance, and fertility. So decorating with them goes back to long before the imported fresh (imported from warmer places) fruits to show wealth.

[@nicoletodd6716]

I love all of your apples! They are so adorable! As a teacher, my first thought when I saw the apple was, “An apple for the teacher…” Another creator that does slip casting has a giant pencil mold and it made me wonder if the two molds went together…. apples+pencils=teacher I absolutely love your videos and your happy sunny delightful personality! The molds remind me of “doing ceramics” with my mother growing up! ❤️

[@LexiIsSoStrong]

I'd love to see a red or black apple base with an iridescent or metallic poison dip! I think that would be so cool 🥰🍎

[@mucbased]

When you started putting the drips on the first one, I initally thought you will make an candied apple. That would look cute too.

[@mdesutter1]

With sprinkles on top. Would be cute!

[@noelleh8985]

As an older American I immediately thought of the Richard Scarry book and the worm with the apple car!

[@LauraMe...]

Cheese under a glass dome is used as display. In farm style homes or actual working farms braids of vegetables, dried herbs and flowers, onions are hung on hooks or nails. And potatoes, onions and squashes aren't meant to be refrigerated and we often have cabinets special for them. I love all 4! So adorable. It would make a wonderful lidded mug with a worm handle. A bigger cut out and leave the lid attached as a sponge holder. I think the mugs and a mulled cider spice mix would make a beautiful gift set!

[@SAP64]

Love the creativity you put into the apples. For the tea light version you could make the hole in the back look like someone has taken a bite out of it.

[@danijonesdanijones]

The red for the worm apple turned out soooo beautifully vibrant! I would love to see a regular looking apple, like with the dapples and freckles and splotches that real apples get. It would be fantastic! Wonderful work, as always!

[@cljeans8399]

And you could always do your beautiful flower work and paint apple blossoms all over the pieces.

[@DawnDavidson]

That would be so pretty!

[@cindyserry2836]

The little pink worms remind me of the Oscar the Grouch's little friend worm on Sesame Street. Super cute.

[@susank2586]

When you started painting the green onto the apple and you said toffee apple. I imagined the apple with caramel toffee running down

[@jalapeno_cupcake]

When you mentioned adding gold luster my mind immediately went to Captain Barbosa in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Might be a fun challenge to make a pirate inspired apple. 😊

[@Little_Red_Riding_Hoodlum]

The drippy top ones were a stroke of totally cute genius!

[@jpendowski7503]

Apples are a traditional teacher gift. This may have been it’s original theme. Your spin on the spooky season made them your own. Cheers from the Midwest USA.

[@samanthadean1083]

Simple molds are fantastic for coming up with all kinds of ideas!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️

[@jurassica2504]

I immediately thought of the apple car from Richard Scarry's busy world

[@RipBea]

I know people who display their cheese (although they would get very sweaty) Displaying eggs is super normal in my culture though. There are egg baskets and ceramics to display them. As for butter, there are ceramics to keep it outside the fridge!

[@TheMaiaDriscol]

I didn't want to be the kind of teacher who is obsessed with all things apple, but I totally am, and I'm obsessed with these apple jars!!

[@chrisw8389]

The Caterpillar coming out the apple reminds me of one of my favourit children's books THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR 😂❤ I would have done a solid gold apple on the outside and like green deathly potion inside.

[@drwoo6090]

I only use the battery tea lights. They are safe, and quite realistic, as they shimmer, and look lovely in the dark! You won’t need the big hole at the back, and you can lift the lid and also use it for other things! 😀

[@giatomcat8790]

As cute as the apples were, I could not concentrate on them because of your amazing sweater. I was making notes the whole time you were showing off your pieces so I could try to reproduce the crochet. Everything was on "Cute Overload" and I swooned in craft bliss.

[@DumplingsToGo]

Your imagination is off the charts and second to none! My mom had a ceramic studio while I was growing up, so I'm very familiar with many of your pre '80's molds. It's fun to watch you make each of these molds uniquely yours. My mom never went outside of the traditional uses of the items and used expected or traditional colors. I keep waiting for you to come across my personal favorite mold of the worm family that were for people to put outside in their yards/garden. The worm was one big and one Itty bitty. Mom would make a mom (with fake eyelashes), a dad, and two babies. 😂😂 My mom moved a few years back, and in a random box, I found one of the baby worms. It lives on my kitchen widow sill now.❤

[@KTCoope]

I was worried at how gross the worms and grubs might have come out when you were just in the process of sculpting them… but then you draw the faces and I remembered “wait this is a Shelby video, they’re going to be adorable”. All the pieces came out lovely, I really enjoy the idea of the love heart poison apple. Maybe she’s and antidote apple!

[@TT-_-]

It's dipped in love potion!

[@jcortese3300]

That was my thought, too -- when she put the smiles and little pink cheeks on them, I was like oh yeah, okay. It's Shelby. :-)

[@Lucymargo271]

In the U.K. we don’t keep eggs in the fridge and often will have eggs in some form of a bowl display. There is even a popular display that is almost like a slide for the eggs to roll down as you take one 😂

[@justjane2070]

Yes,I have one of those . Love it 😊

[@airenesmiler6624]

That's because the protective coating on eggs is not washed away in Europe, once the eggs are washed they need to be refrigerated.

[@amybooksit7818]

Same in the US with farm fresh eggs. They are stored on the counter, unwashed until ready to use. Only store bought or washed eggs go in the fridge.

[@jakryk]

That's because in the U.K. you leave the protective coating that naturally occurs on the egg. In the US they require all eggs be washed, so if you leave them out on the counter they will spoil. Your way makes more sense.

[@anoniaciesluk3273]

So cute! You could use battery tea lights too so they wouldn’t get hot.

[@juliebartlett6200]

The red apple reminds me of the apple cat in the Busy Town cartoon

[@FoxyTattyDrew]

My family have a cake tray & cloche that is a cheese wheel with a little mouse on top. I also have definitely seen a bowl of fake eggs on display at a friend's house.

[@kristenbartholomew4209]

You should do a black and white Beetlejuice one with one of the sand worm creatures coming out of it.

[@schattenblume4795]

In the german fairytale "Schnewittchen" the poisoned apple looks like a really tasty apple. So even a normal apple would be kinda snowwhite-ish

[@belladonna8747]

I love the way the "caramel drip" looks like hair! It made the green one look like a red head! So cute!

[@lemondropcentral14]

Ooh, these apples would be really pretty in that black and gold color way you did a while ago for Halloween! You mentioned doing gold luster around the eyes of the tea light holder. I could see a black apple with gold leaves and stem just on its own being stunning, but add the face outlined in gold with a tealight would look amazing!

[@nancyrath1927]

I absolutely love them the pink and purple one is my favorite. And I love all the work you do. The colors and the molds. Keep up the awesome work and can't wait for more.🎉❤❤❤😊

[@gingerlancaster3033]

Love the apples, all of them, but especially the red with the worm 🪱

[@anaritacoelho6689]

My grandma had a ceramic chicken in the kitchen table were she stored the eggs. The eggs were fresh from her own chickens.

[@vonkurtz8437]

I literally seen one in Myer yesterday (Australian department store - for anyone wondering) As I would go to a friends house a a kid and they had the ceramic chicken with eggs inside on a doily 😊

[@SuesOriginals]

You don’t need to refrigerate eggs from your own hens. They will keep for weeks on the kitchen counter. It’s the store bought ones that have been washed and thus lose their protection.

[@shevahauser1780]

my neighbors have chickens, and they display the eggs in a beautiful basket in the kitchen. all different colours, blues, and speckles. and different shapes

[@belladonna8747]

My grandmother had a ceramic chicken in the kitchen, but since she didn't have chickens she used it as a cookie jar 🍪🐓

[@DarrahJay]

Oh these are adorable! My first thought was to make little houses out of them :)

[@TomWDW1]

I would buy that cute little green apple boy in a HEARTBEAT!! He looks so cute with the tealight 💚

[@valeriebrincheck6034]

I love the little smiley faces on the worms. Too cute!

[@rittj.1303]

These turned out so cool! It'd also be cool to see a caramel apple, maybe by smoothing/cutting the leaves away. I love the poison apple candle holders, what a neat idea!

[@Bethany.Loveday]

Omg yes! Please do the witch-etty grubs with witch hats one!! 🧙🏼‍♀️🤩

[@FlorenceFrazier2002]

You could make them look like caramel or chocolate apples. I think they are adorable!

[@lev21n01]

These would look super cute with your flower designs all over them, just plain neutral color underneath. Very cute either way!

[@noneofbizorjuliejt6466]

I LOVED the zombie and the wormies and grubs!!!!! They are AWESOME. I think you should do more with bugs like roaches or spiders for spooky. Or ladybugs and beetles for cutsie ones. I love your imagination. 🎉The mouth on the zombie is great I really like that design. You work just really speaks to me. Thank you!

[@Lobsneaks]

Looks like Duncan Ceramics formatted their mold numbers a DM1234A, so this would be DM0141A. There’s some catalog listings online and the most comprehensive one I was able to find listed this mold, skipped DM0142 and went to DM0143A which was listed as both a Fruit Salt and Pepper Shaker AND a Daisy Salt and Pepper Shaker. Interestingly, DM0143B is listed as a “Rope Mug” which I wonder how that goes with the salt and pepper shakers

[@tynebaker]

The wormie ones would be so cute on top of a stack of books or bookshelf. Very bookworm, or teacher, or librarian vibes in the cutest way.

[@CrypticFen]

These are really fun. I love the way the worms continue on the insideof the apple.

[@fallenvictory9]

To add a lighting effect, cut space into the lid that way more light can escape. The red apple turned out beautiful and the heart eyed one, cuter than I thought! The zombie though, my favorite bc of the vibrancy in color. Spook on girl!

[@gypsi812]

I love your ascetic. The zombie tea lights are amazing, but those worms give me all the Shelby feels.❤

[@vonkurtz8437]

Love all of them so much and the witchetty grub’s were super cute 🥰 (I remember eating one on a school camp when I was a kid) I was thinking the beautiful red apple with the worms would make a great teacher gift. Maybe put a hole in the side for a pen holder to sit on their desk. But man, your creativity is just mind blowing ❤

[@mariabuschard1763]

Soooo cute! You could totally do Carmel apples with them! Decorate them with candy corn and nuts

[@vincentknws]

I hope she makes a caramel or candy apple with that. ❤

[@Yarndragon89]

A candy apple with sprinkles would be so cute

[@kalieris]

We absolutely had fake fruit growing up. One set was wax, and a later set was glass. There are so many still-lifes throughout art history that have a bowl of fruit. Partly I think it’s that fruits-as-luxury aspect another commenter mentioned - my mother was a kid at a time when that was absolutely true in Europe (1930s). She told me it was a big deal to get a satsuma in your Christmas stocking. For my mother, I think it was also a nostalgia thing that doubled as an easy still life model. Artificial flowers frankly looked fake, or at least the ones sold at our price point growing up, so I think it was also a pop of bright colors that was more naturalistic. Dangit, now I really want a bowl of fake fruit, and a couple of those kitschy pitchers shaped like a lemon or a bunch of grapes. 😂

[@jennierenzi8739]

Sooo cute. Love the worries and that sweet whimsical chuckle you make each time you see an apple come out of the kiln❤

[@jakryk]

This is such a creative idea! I love the tea light holder. A whole display with different expressions would be so cute,

[@zanecheryl8768]

The worms arr perfect. These would be perfect gifts for teachers and for friends that love fruits ❤❤❤

[@nikkiewhite476]

Oh i love all the apples! Each one has such character. Honestly the first thing i thought of when you first got the lids on was the old toy apples that has bells of some sort inside.

[@annwitten4359]

I thought exactly the same thing and I still have my toy apple!! 🍎

[@jenniferbrandel9622]

Those are “Happy Apples” and my husband still has one!

[@kitschscool561]

Absolutely love these! Well done Shelby❣️

[@CaliAnimalLover]

Candied apples or caramel apples to make into candy dishes!

[@bblovesyou1]

The apple with the worms would make such a great mug, with a big worm as a handle and the lid to keep your tea warm.

[@threegoodeyes7400]

That heart eyed one looked so cool lit up. Had the most distinctive look out of them all. I wasn’t that drawn to the coloring of it in the light, but it sure stood out amoung the rest when lit in the dark. I loved the zombie colored one and the red apple with worms in the light

[@korinnespencer1324]

I wonder if the apple mold was originally for the trend of taking an Apple To your teacher at school. To be a display on a teachers desk or something to that effect. Great job as always! They turned out amazing!

[@shannoncaeley]

My family and I got our first chickens this year, and they started laying beautiful eggs a month ago, pink and brown, and speckled and blue. And because these are fresh unwashed eggs, they are safe to be kept on the counter, and don't have to take up space in the fridge, so we just keep ours out. They aren't in a prominent place in the kitchen on display or anything, but I do just love looking at them and seeing the unique shells and colors each have!

[@mithiell-]

These turned out so cute! We have a similar one at home, glazed blue and with a little platform to put a candle underneath so you can make baked stuffed apples~ It works a bit nicer by just putting the closed apple part in the oven though.

[@shannoncooper3298]

How adorable.I think the love apple is my favorite,the worms were also cute. You have got such a creative mind I would have never thought of all those fun ideas

[@cerwelt]

Love to see plain apples. Love fruit done in ceramics. Plus patterned would be great. I’m not a big spooky girl. Love the apples with the cutesy worms. An apple with a surprised expression glancing at the worms would be cute too.

[@brombearjam5318]

I love the Apples specially the one with the worms ! They are soooo cute!!

[@kaytiej8311]

I love that you get so excited by the cute little pieces when you open the mold. 😊

[@brandonthomas2852]

I love the apples. As a child, my mother collected decorative, figurative candles. One that sat on our dining table I was obsessed with playing with. It was a wooden base, a glass cloche and a wax wedge of swiss cheese with a cute little mouse. I'm somewhat surprised my mother liked it, because she hates mice, but there it was. Seems like it would have been quite functional for actual cheese, assuming room temperature wasn't a huge issue. As far as fruit goes, my grandparents had hanging baskets of plastic fruit that I'd beg to play with.

[@lisakaye3935]

Wisconsin, US and in the past, I’ve blown a dozen eggs, cook the eggs and decorate the eggshells and displayed in a square wire dish. Super cute because you can decorate your shells for the seasons/holidays.

[@Beauvaissbb]

I love these so much! The spookier ones are so on point and the worms on the others are so awesome... I love how theycontinue on to the inside! Another wonderful mystery mold! ❤

[@brittanywinn3955]

Love the worms crawling through to the inside! I would love a red apple, black poison with gold accents. Maybe on the stem and leaves. And no face cut out.

[@cherylburkitt9722]

Squeal!! These are adorable...love the tealights...grubs so cute 🥰❤.. love Apples

[@iamdawt]

We had a ceramics business for years back in the 1970s, and we filled our apple and strawberry pots with scented wax for candles. They were super good sellers. We also did artichokes in the same way (we live in an agricultural community). You're so creative and I love what you've done with yours! The tea lights are such a great idea.

[@DianeGraft]

Love this design, so many possibilities. I'd love to see just the straight apple design, but with an unusual glaze to make it a poison apple. Or of course, as others have already said, add a worm handle to make a lidded mug.

[@kennynewitt8064]

Owmigersh Shelby! The Zombie Apple is perfection! I want one!!!!

[@lolacarter2833]

For the apple tea lights, try a bright yellow glaze. It really makes the colors on the outside pop! For the buggy ones, I was totally hoping for a handle to make one a teacup! I would love to see that! I've enjoyed every single episode of unmolding.

[@yaybmo5155]

You could make it a lidded tea cup with the worm or a branch as a handle.

[@wendypilling3619]

YOU have a true talent that shines and makes magic! They are fantastic! Maybe make some black and white Tim Burtonish vibe. Beetlejuice....stripes, crazy hair, worms..ECT. I love your freestyle, Whimsy...just do what you do? Sending love and hugs from Western New York USA. May God continue to bless you and your family in body, mind and spirit 🙏❤️

[@margaretdevery6547]

Love the zombie one, Shelby. What fun items

[@Emmuzka]

The red apple with the worms is the best! I have a bowl of spices as a decor: dried orange slices, star anise, cinnamon sticks and the like. For Christmas, I stick a few candy canes in there, too. I guess that's my pround product display 🙂

[@CaliAmandalyn1981]

If you look up Halloween McDonald's buckets in the US, there are 3 versions: Green witchy winky face, Orange pumpkin & White Ghost. When you first started painting green, I thought of the little witch version! I love the heart one!

[@adonamarcum3227]

It is shaped like a Red Delicious apple. The designs are wonderful!

[@minakunz1301]

To answer your question. In my family it depents on the season. Around eastertime we display our eastereggs either in a bowl or on an spezial easter platter. Around Christmastime we have bowls full of differents sorts of nuts. But all year round there is a bowl of fresh fruit for my family to grab when ever they want a snack.

[@kristalynncreates]

The one with the heart eyes and nose reminded me of decore from Mexico's day of the dead celebration. Gold luster would fit well with a day of the dead themed apple tealight holder. It could have a double meaning. If could be decorated as day of the dead in colour and decorations. The apple could symbolize the offerings left to family members who have crossed over.

[@melaniebuckley1772]

With the tea light ones you could put stitches where the lid meets the base like Frankenstein’s monster. It might help detract from that seam.

[@pama.6410]

Commercially, an apple tea light that shows books, pencils, a chalkboard, etc. would be a great teacher gift. I also thought you could have made a twig or a worm to be a cup holder so this could be a covered mug which others also suggested. I would love to see this as a red apple or a red apple tea light and would like that, but it probably wouldn't be a "Shelby" apple without some flowers and leaves on it. For a poison apple theme you could paint the dwarves marching around the bottom, if the concept isn't copyrighted, and a form of snow white and the wicked stepmother higher up on the apple. Also see online that the apple is a symbol of love and goodness so something that brings that out would be good.

[@emilytenney8651]

I love these! And for an idea with a basic apple, it would be fun to decorate it with apple blossoms all over!

[@blackthornbark]

i just love the look of fruit!! i have few fake grapes decorating my apartment. it would be a fruit fly haven (and hell for me 😅) to keep them fresh

[@illya7]

These would make wonderful covered jam or honey jars! Just with a little notch cut out of the lids and a ceramic catepillar spoon

[@carnifaxx]

In our country in 1980's (and probably 1990's) there was a fashion of having fruit shaped plastic containers to store candies (something like a cookie jar, it was also placed often on top of the kitchen cabinets, so that it was harder to reach) - I remember a red apple a bit bigger than yours, then a green/yellow pear and I think also a cherry. We had them even in our kindergarten :)

[@Nasalkeihpos]

The red of the toffee apple looks like hair! They are all super cute.

[@trudznz]

I remember my great-Nana having a china apple and pear set that opened like this. They were a little smaller (not much, just a little). I think at least one had a bit out of the lid to allow for a spoon handle (like for sugar or jam).

[@meghaffner3538]

Use flameless tea lights-don’t have to worry about the heat. They are all so fun! A caramel apple with a stick would be cute.

[@wowjennawow]

i absolutely adore these! ❤ there’s a surprising amount of things you could do with these, like candy apples!

[@BrittBass]

A lot of people have dry pasta in jars displayed as decor. It was especially popular in the US in the late 90s.

[@GreyishBobbi]

I've seen eggs (we had a neighbor that had chickens and you can just have them on counter when they're fresh like that), fruit, and I do pastry in my own home, though of course they're covered with a seethrough lid to preserve freshness.

[@hannahwolfe-parthun7167]

LOVE the red apple with worms, wow!!

[@laurapyle1213]

These are awesome! They remind me of jars I have gotten for teacher appreciation gifts, only better.

[@Sarsange]

It reminds me like a parsimon fruit! specially because parsimon have 4 leaves from the base of the stem to the fruit and the shape is not round like an apple!