I used the watercolour tool to create the basic shape of the spoon. Then I used the "dark" tool to shade it. I don't normally use the "dark" tool. I also used the "light" tool. I don't usually use that one either. I used a little halftone, and then blurred the image a little. After that, I used the typing tool to put bazillions of tiny S's to add more shading and lighting to it. It's weird, I know. =[

After I added the text, I blurred it, just enough so that the S's are visible. I was going for a kind of "rusty/bumpy" spoon, which is kinda weird now that I think about it, because gold isn't a very corrosive metal. D;