Adventures of a lady in training » resin http://www.blottedcopybook.co.uk The chronicles of my day to day life learning how to juggle children, crafts, work and cookery whilst having some fun and attempting self-sufficiency along the way. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:31:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Adventures in resin http://www.blottedcopybook.co.uk/adventures-in-resin/ http://www.blottedcopybook.co.uk/adventures-in-resin/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:00:04 +0000 Vonnie http://www.blottedcopybook.co.uk/?p=463 Last week I took the plunge. After seeing work done by two of my friends – Chrissy and Kerry – I’ve been dying to experiment so I took a little trip to this fibreglass specialist and picked up a kilo of clear casting polyester resin. I didn’t want to invest in supplies until I was sure this was something I’d do a lot of so for moulds I used ice cube trays that we had in the house (available from ikea) and some beer bottle tops. Using Kerry’s book called “Create your own resin jewellery” as guidance, I set to work.

Bear in mind that I haven’t done anything to these since they came out of the moulds as they’re still curing! I promise I’ll post more photographs once they’ve been sanded and finished. You can see all my work to date by clicking here to see my flickr set

Bottle caps

Lovehearts

These ones need topped up

Not quite finished

I’m quite excited to do more, now!

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