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Cell-U-Clay is available at most art supply stores, as well as craft / floral stores like Michael's. If you can't find it at all, you can actually make your own, which I did do when I was a dirt-poor college kid. All you need is a blender you can dedicate to the messiness, and the patience required to tear up newspaper into small (1 inch maximum) squares. A paper shredder would help out here, if available. Basically, you're just going to puree up some newsprint, which is the same as what you get when Cell-U-Clay is mixed in water. Another potential source is the blown-in cellulose insulation that builders use; you may be able to find some at a construction job-in-progress, especially one where it is being removed as construction debris. Talk to the foreman, see if he'll let you bag up some, then take it home and puree it in a blender as well. The big advantage of Cell-U-Clay is that it is already ground up fine and stores easily in its dry state, so buying it at a genuine retailer will be worth it.
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