A little rundown of recent craft projects.
Another Cyborg Space Dad. This one isn’t nearly as good, though. He has bubble marks. :/
A necklace for one of my friends
These will be earrings eventually. In the meantime they look quite nice.
Assorted other necklaces! Terrible photo quality but what do you reckon?
Here’s a little resin experiment which came out really well.
Dunno what to do with him, maybe turn him into a fridge magnet?
Finally, some successful resin-ing. I made an Evil Cyborg Space Dad, not to be confused with a Darth Vader, who OF COURSE belongs to Disney.
It doesn’t look quite as good out of the light, but…
I do like how the splatters of alcohol ink look a bit like scars.
Over the past month I’ve tried to make some resin lobster magnets. One that I did previously was a success:
But the new ones… not so much.
No matter what I did, they just remained lobster-shaped piles of stickiness. It was kinda gross. But I have no idea what went wrong! Because it’s so cold in the room I’m working in they just can’t cure, maybe? Sigh. Sorry, lobsters.
I threw them in the recycling bag. I assume failed resin can get recycled? I don’t really wanna contribute to the amount of plastic waste in the world.
Sigh. I demoulded this pink bracelet today. It was a project I’d been working on for ages. First the darker pink went in and then the lighter pink. Maybe I left it sitting out in the cold garage for way too long before going back to it? I’m sorry, bracelet. I have a real-life job!
…..annnnd it has all these awful dents and notches in it. Sigh. If anyone has advice on how to fix that, I am ALL EARS. Because apart from that, I really like it. Sanding maybe? It hasn’t had even one sanding yet. Waaah.
I also made this star, which ALSO has holes in it.
Sorry about the photo, it looks much better in reality, apart from those horrible annoying holes around the edge. I’m gonna try and fix it very very carefully but I fear messing it up. Resin is so expensive that I wince whenever something goes wrong.
Can it be? A successful day’s resin-ing! Look! Here’s a flower ring, which is something I always wanted to make and I was flipping amazed how it came out. The flowers are ones from my garden which were being cut down anyway, mixed up with some gold bits:
It only fits on my pinky finger but I love it!
Experiment two was more dramatic: resin and sawdust! I tried mixing the two on a whim, and I didn’t expect this:
It actually looks like wood! There are a few gold flakes in there too, which didn’t work out perfectly but it still looks pretty good.
I think it looks really, really nice in direct sunlight:
Anyway! I look forward to making many more sawdust and/or resin rings in the future. These two are mine all mine now.
