My phone will soon be turned into a cake!

Among not only Japanese girls but others who are interested in Japanese pop culture, there is a rapidly increasing trend and craft called decoden. This craft involves gluing bling, small toys and miniature sweets to phone cases, or the surface of a gadget itself.

One particular style of decoden that I am interested in is "deco sweets". Usually this style consists of coating the phone (or iPod) case in whipped cream, which is actually simply white silicone squeezed from a tube. Miniature clay sweets are then placed, all bunched together, in the whipped cream and left to set.

The result looks something like this:

(source)

Recently, I bought some of my own decoden supplies from a variety of etsy stores. These include...

Silicone clay for the whipped cream effect

(US$6.50 from DecoSweets)

Mini sweets, or "cabochons"

(US$9.95 from Miniature Sweet)

Clear and light pink rhinestones

(2 packs for US$2.20 each from pinkchoc)

I should be receiving all of these hopefully within the next month or so, and I'm really looking forward to getting them. I'll probably take photos for my blog while "decodening", so you'll get to see the result!