In short, not much has been accomplished this summer.
However, I did manage to pull out the sculpey a few days ago and start fiddling around for fun...suddenly this little guy appeared.

Works out well because I just got a toaster oven specifically for baking sculpey so that I don't have to worry about toxins working their way into my toast. Will try and update with the finished product whenever I manage to get it painted...got a busy weekend coming up so it may not be exactly soon.