Back in 2005 I boiled a Strawberry Swirl in coffee and birthed Mocha! The coffee pony!

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Buuut 5 years later Mocha had faded to a poor shadow of her former glory, so I decided to give her another coffee boil which did indeed intensify her colors. Life got busy and I had to shelve pony customization and many projects of mine. Then I re-discovered the Arena, found a thread asking about coffee-dying and decided to take a look at Mocha. She had faded, again! Not as much as the first time around, but one side was more faded than the other, prolly due to light. So what did I do? I bought more coffee grinds! (And unfortunately I do not have a before photo of the faded sad-pony)

I made a large pot of coffee (used the entire bag), set it to a boil and then moved it to my sink and submerged Mocha (poor girl has suffered a lot for her gorgeous tan x3) overnight. My idea was to give the plastic much more time to absorb the dye in the coffee.
Next morning I put the pot of coffee back on the stove and turned on the heat as low as possible. She stood there for... Oh I don't know... 6-7 hours? Simmering and boiling lightly. When I did take the pot off of the heat, I put it back in the sink and left it until the content was completely cooled down. Mocha spend A LOT OF TIME in coffee visitors can't see pics , please register or login
 I took her out to dry before bed, and left her covered in coffee grinds, mostly to see if I could get any sort of mottled pattern on her.

She did not mottle but stained as wonderfully as ever! Now I'm not sure what to do to attempt to preserve her colors, maybe seal her body. I did de-tinsel her hair because it was annoying me to no end. I couldn't do a thing with it. Whatever the outcome of Mocha's new tan, this time I will finish her, paint and all, and she will not undergo another coffee boil. It is time for my girl to relax and be loved even as she fades.

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(Heh, she looks pretty boring so far )


 
I shall update as the coloring progresses!

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02-03-2012

I did more work on Mocha! Recently I got my hands on Super Sculpey, so I couldn't resist trying it out. So now she's a 3D symbol pony ^^

Mocha's colors show MUCH BETTER in these photos! I guess the light in my kitchen is better, heh!
Mocha, fresh out of the oven:

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Poor girl, she's been boiled -and- cooked!

Coffee plant and berries, plus the roasted result and of course a nice cup of the black brew. Mmmmh!