Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Lesson Learned!

I spent an evening casting my first layer of some planned pendants. I made way too much resin for what I had planned so ended up running around gathering up all the moulds I could find to use up what was left over (waste not want not n all that), however I was a bit silly and used too much mould release on all my moulds and consequentially, none of the resin had hardened after 24 hours and they were all full of bubbles and imperfections so all had to go straight in the bin.

I haven't had the heart or the time to go for round 2, but will hopefully find the time towards the end of the week.

The joys of learning a craft, eh!

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

And so it begins...

I finally managed to cast some resin pendants which I think are pretty decent. They are by no means perfect, but it's a pretty good start if I do say so myself.



I have spent this evening casting the first layer for a whole bunch of pendants, keyrings, magnets or whatevers. Probably over ambitious, but I made far too much resin for what I had planned so I just carried on until all the moulds I could lay my hands on were done. No idea how I'm going to adorn each one yet, but fingers crossed.