Morning unmolding of resin paperweight experiments: salvia from my garden and opalescent purple glitter. I like them fine, I think, but not my favorites so far. Nice for the person who loves purple, though.
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Mostly offline today, had a nice TV + crafting + cooking day. Made a great chicken curry, that will be a good accompaniment to the various vegan dishes I’ll be making this week (cabbage mallung or green bean curry tomorrow, I think, if you have a preference for what comes next, holler). Finally finished and
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Okay, so resin folks, advice, please. When you sand resin, it gets cloudy, right? Maybe if I get better at pouring, I won’t have to sand so much, but right now, I definitely do. I don’t love the look of it. Can I paint over the sanding? I was thinking a little bit of gold
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Kavi and I agree that so far, we like the moss-in-resin best out of the experiments. With added gold flake in the paperweight and the pendants. I’m a little worried about how much sanding the rings are going to need to be smooth, though — maybe I’m just super-messy, but I can’t seem to fill
Unmolding resin is just fun. Like opening little presents. I tried some dried roses and opalescent glitter in these paperweights — Kavi loves them, which I kind of thought she might. Opalescent glitter is very unicorn magic-ish. I love the effect of the roses partially emerging from the resin block — I’m poured resin over
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Locals, quick note that I’ll be at this market on February 12th, along with lots of other cool makers — I’ll have signed cookbooks and homemade curry powder, of course, and then we’ll see what else. FB event link in comments!
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Two more zippered bags, so cute. Pop of pink with the zipper on the vintage book nerd, went more classic and neutral for the book covers. What next? Should I try to learn how to make tote bags? I kind of want to try sewing something for kids. Headbands? Clip-on hair bows? (I don’t love
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It’s been a rough two weeks in like three different ways — things are getting better, but I kind of stalled out on finishing up the flash sale items from last week. Finally sewed up the last items yesterday, and of course, it made me feel better, making things, finishing projects. It always does. So
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Had a little time for resin experiments this morning — moss and gold leaf, dried roses and iridescent glitter. What I’d like to try next is adding poetry, but am not sure best approach. Time to watch more YouTube tutorials…
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Poured a second set of what I’m currently thinking of as ‘elven romance’ jewelry, with both silver and golden bezels for the pendants. Holographic paper bits are fun. Subtle gold shimmer is fun. Using finger cots to keep from getting resin all over my fingers while maintaining maximum dexterity is very effective and satisfying. My
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