Almost done with Venu’s order of a tray and eight coasters. I want to add one more thin flood coat to the tray — if you look at the bottom left, you can see where a layer of resin didn’t make it all the way to the edge, and it’s bugging me. A top coat […]
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Tried just air-drying the hellebores, and they definitely come out a lot more wrinkly than if you use desiccant. Still pretty, though, in their own way. Feels like it has more of a witchy aesthetic, somehow. Will be curious to see how this tray / art piece comes out. It’ll have some dimensionality, since the
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Morning resin pour. This is Venu’s order of tray and coasters. L JP, yours is done, but I won’t have time to get it to the post office before I leave town, so will ship early next week. Unless you want to come to Oak Park and have lunch and pick them up instead! Joan,
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Well, this is frustrating. A failed experiment that is ALMOST perfect, but wrong in a way that ruins it. Gah. I wanted to try making a milkweed fluff table. Big shout-out to Persis Thorndike, who sent me a giant bag of fluff from their garden, when they saw me posting about only having a little
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Orange madeleines / orange & black pepper dippled in dark chocolate madeleines for the treat boxes. Sending out tomorrow, fingers crossed.
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Made some more real flower earrings. They’re so delicate, which is part of what I love, but it also makes me fret. I brought them into the store, but I’m now thinking maybe I should take them back home and add another layer of resin to them, just for sturdiness. Hmm…
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Okay, I’m a little in love with how this mandarin serving board came out. I sliced and dehydrated the mandarins myself, which gives a more rustic result than the slices I’ve bought previously for coasters and trays. So when I poured the resin for this, I thought I’d try pouring it a little thinner, and
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Yesterday’s batch of trays and coasters. 🙂 (The trays may already be claimed, I’m not sure, so I may or may not be bringing them to Sprout tomorrow.)
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