I got this project done much quicker than I thought so there really aren’t too many posts about it, because I focused on it and sole-ly it for 2 weeks straight and got it done in those 2 weeks. I ended up using a little knife to poke a hole into the bottom of the elephant head so that i could stick the chopstick into it and the chopstick was already very tightly attached to the clay base which gave it a great weight that isnt too heavy to hold but feels heavy enough to suggest good quality and a nice weight to hold in your hands. i made sure to cover every last piece with the silver metallic paint which made it very shiny and also surprisingly very soft! One thing that i struggled with, was painting the chopstick! I think it’s because it’s a quite small, thin object, and it was also previosuly coated with some kind of plastic to make it smooth and splinter proof for the users to eat with, but that just made it hard for the paint to stick to. But eventually, I figured out a way to paint it which was basically just taking my sweet time painting it. Because the only way the paint would stay in all places was to do it in sections and then let it FULLY dry before painting anywhere near it. I’m very pleased with how it turned out, here is a picture of it all finished!