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This weekend’s resin pieces, waiting by the grill. No, I’m not planning to eat them. Just wanted them to catch a little more sunlight so I could be sure they’d finished curing before I started sanding and polishing them. Company for this morning’s puttering has been season 2 of Short Treks, which I think I […]

Some teeny tiny flower that I collected years ago. Along with a rose leaf, just ’cause.

Spent a fair bit of time this weekend working on resin pieces, finishing jewelry (clean, sand, polish, paint edge if desired, add jump ring and chain). It’s a lot of little steps, but none of them take that long, and they’re all things that you can do while watching TV, especially if you’re only sort

And it’s all ready for summer grilling. I know this is the end of summer, oh well. It took me a long time, because this is a new pattern for me, and I am such a beginner with sewing still. I’m sort of curious how long it takes an experienced sewist to make something like

Gilding resin with a metallic mirror-finish paint pen. I wasn’t sure what I thought about it — the end result has a bit of a rustic look. But I think I like it. Will probably leave some pieces clear, and gild the edges of others… 27

Did do a little sewing yesterday — quilted down (is that a phrase? I am such a quilting novice) the second potholder. Next (and final) step, binding. But I may wait ’til tomorrow to do that because I need to be very chill when sewing new things or I mess up and get stressed out,

This is my little resin set-up. I had very strictly told myself that until I finished cleaning up and organizing the basement, I wasn’t allowed to play with resin, but I DID manage to get that done before the semester started (JUST BARELY), and so yesterday I spent some time playing with resin. Notes so

I did get to spend a few hours playing with resin and botanicals this afternoon. . Lots of pendants, each one different…

Plan for today — I have a school board meeting tonight, so at some point, I need to spend some time prepping for that. Otherwise, I’m pretty tired after first week of teaching, so mostly going to take it easy, I think. Been re-reading Murderbot (going to assign the first one to students), and hoping

I spiked my hair up instead of down today. Now I don’t know which I like better. But I do know that part of why I like making jewelry is that it makes me happy when I wear jewelry made by friends of mine. These earrings are by Dima Ali, and I just picked them