A Singaporean artist received the order of her life.

Grammy Award winner John Legend commissioned the Singaporean artist, Jocelyn Teo, to make miniature replicas of 15 dishes from his wife's cookbook, Cravings.

It was a birthday gift for his wife Chrissy Teigen's 32nd birthday.

Miniature food

Known as @AiClay on Facebook and micro-blogging site Dayre, Teo makes and sells miniature models of food.

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🍞+🍦+🌈 The soft bread doubles up as a sponge for all the melty ice cream goodness, and also a holder for the scoops. Doesn’t hurt that they come in an eclectic blend of pink and green. I handsculpted this miniature ice cream sandwich with quality polymer clay and perched it on a ring. It’s supposed to be in my webstore but let me take a breather from the past few hectic months, and recharge for where I want to bring AiClay to next! 💪🏼⛽️ #miniature #minifood #tinythings

A post shared by Jocelyn Teo (@aiclay) on Nov 21, 2017 at 7:43am PST

An e-mail from John Legend's manager

It started with an e-mail from John Legend's manager, where they agreed on a Skype voice call with the musician himself.

During the call, the Legend and Teo discussed some ideas that he had, as he wanted Teo to create Teigen's birthday gift.

Apparently, Teigen is into miniature food, and was the one who introduced AiClay to Legend.

And if anyone is interested to know, Teo describes Legend as having a "deep and smooth voice that just exuded confidence ".

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The end product

Over four months, Teo created the 15 food miniatures based on dishes from Teigen's cookbook, Cravings.

The dishes include chicken satay, chicken noodle soup, ribeye steak, fish tacos, and hasselback potatoes, among others.

Here's the complete line-up:

Teo also shared the process with her readers:

Teo even followed the recipes in Teigen's book to create the dish, so that she can better sculpt her pieces:

Real potatoes:

Not real potatoes:

Packing the finished works carefully for shipping to Los Angeles:

Shipping and insurance cost more than S$400, and Legend took care of the latter.

Unfortunately, Legend and his wife did not mention Teo's brand, although Teigen did Snapchat the process of her receiving the gift from Legend.

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You can read her full account on her Dayre here.

In Singapore, choosing the arts as your career path might be frowned upon.

It's relatively unstable, and hard to make a name for yourself.

But the Internet can do many amazing things, including connecting you to clients who are Hollywood names, as a Singaporean clay artist found out.

Top image adapted from Legend's Facebook and Teo's Dayre

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