My sweet little bounty ~

I finally popped all of my sweet resin babies out!

Well, popped really isn't the word, it's more like pulled them out with tiny pliers!

But I don't know if my mold was the same as Lisa's or if my resin recipe was dead on.

You have to combine EXACTLY half of each component ~ remember that :)

Here are a couple of boo boos ~ if you're not careful when inserting the images,

you can have a bubble of air underneath the image!

I still love them both though ~

what is wrong with me loving even the less that desirable baubles?

I ended up cutting up my candy tray and thought, why not reuse them again?

If I have to use the pliers again, who cares?

 Here are the ones with the bubbles again with the one I crammed a chunk of lace in ~

It's really neat except you can't see the lace clearly unless you have it back lit.

Here's the other big one ~ it was poured into a paint well rather than a candy mold.

The hydrangea doesn't look that wonderful inside though :)

OH! And my solution to the gummy top of the other big bauble
with the clock face inside?

I found a tiny watch face and glued it right over top of the gummy part!!
I just love the look of it!

And on these babies....I've painted the bases with some new MS paint.

I love the creamy color and now want to coat them
with a pretty creamy pearl color!

I hope to be able to glue old pearls onto the branches
 then add beautiful glitter to them all ~

And btw ~ I think this is what I need from now on
when I make the resin baubles.

Just to be on the safe side, you know?

I plan on getting a bottle at Hob Lob next time ~

PS. Here's a neat blog about resin you might enjoy....
Resin Crafts

Well, it's been another week of dragging out the same project for days!

I just hate that!

You know I love sharing tons of different things with you

but it seems that this is how life goes....

But maybe I've encouraged you to try something new?

Happy Thursday precious friends,

love you much,

Dawn

A very special gift .... and a teeny bit of frustration ~

A dear friend stopped by the house yesterday to drop off a gift she'd made for me ~

well....I'M IN LOVE with it!!!!

I've always admired assemblages inside old clock cases and

Joy made this amazing one just for me!

The shape, the colors, the glass door, the nest...the theme,
just everything about it is so beautiful...

It speaks of time...and how fleeting it truly is ~

Thank you so very much sweet Joy, I will treasure it always!!!

My little blonde forest waiting for something more ~

And then....the baubles.

I was ready to see them! So I'm supposed to wait 24 hours, right?

Well a couple of hours early I decided to see if they were ready.

NOT.

I had to cut, pull and pry with pliers to get these two sweeties out.

But I do love the way they look!

I ruined my mold. Thank goodness it was cheap ~

This harder mold (and a little deeper too) was awful.

I broke it to smithereens ~ but there was a reason and Lisa warned me about this.

It was still a little gooky inside ~ see it on the very top?

So....I'll wait until tonight to try to pop out the others ~

I do love the look of them though, don't you?

I will use them as little embellishments on my artwork...

I guess patience IS a virtue, right? :)

Have a wonderful Wednesday dear friends!!!
hugs and love,

Dawn

Being brave...it's good to try new things!

I had to try these resin baubles because, well, you cheered me on!

I finally decided it is the perfectionist in me that keeps me from trying

new techniques...I just DON'T want to mess up!

I found my supplies and measured the little cavities of my candy mold ~

they were about 1" in diameter. I sized the photos I had chosen in my photo

editing software so the image area I wanted would fit.

I loved the size of the cavities in this candy mold....

I had two boxes of resin (of course) I'm always trying to gather supplies,

using them is another story :)

This is the one I used.....

Here's the other box of resin I had....and come to find out,

they are made by the same company and are the exact same stuff!!!

I filled the cavities until they were almost full, then placed the image face down.

I used a toothpick to poke it down into the resin.

Well, now the waiting begins ~

I have to wait 24 hours for the resin to set.

Can you kind of tell what I dropped inside them?

I made a bit of a mess cramming lace in one...but I figured I try.

I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with these sweeties...
but I'm sure I'll think of something!

And since I was feeling quite brave I decided to bleach a few bottle brush trees!!!

Lisa told me Hobby Lobby had these small ones

marked half price this week so I picked up a few bags ~
She also shared her bleaching technique with me......

In batches of threes, I soaked them in solid bleach for about three minutes,

pulled them out with tongs and submerged them into a big bowl of cold water.

Now to decorate them!

One last little thing ~

we have a tiny pecan grove here at the farmhouse and

have had TONS of pecans this year!!!

The boys have gathered a big ol' box full for me.

I found a wonderful pecan sheller on ebay and it arrived this past Saturday!!!

I'm gonna be shelling pecans forever!!!

Wishing you a happy Tuesday precious friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn