earings

I made two sets like this one for my mother in law for Christmas and one for a swap. I really like the Angles. It even turned out that they matched a sweater she got from her mom. Oh and she loves Christmas jewelry.

Loud hat to match the scarf. and a cool necklace

I Finished the Loud hat to match the scarf. here it is on the DD. she look thrilled. She doesn't feel well and was willing to pose but not willing to look happy about posing.

While I have this photo up look at the cool necklace she is wearing she made it out of duct tape. She is too cool.

water bottle carrier

I made this water bottle carrier for my DD. Because of its use I used cheep yarn from Wal-Mart which I almost never do. I do however buy cotton yarn there for wash clothes but that also has to do this color selection as much as price.

Christmas Presents

Well I can't take credit for this one. My husband made this for me as a Christmas gift. I have wanted one since I saw this saying on Chrafters.org. It is cross stitched and he used metal floss for the word glitter. It is so cool it looks like a mutly colored glitter. and he even matted and framed it. while he was setting up the Wii after we opened all the gifts I was putting the nail in the wall to hang this . it is on my wall of quotes right at a level I can see it when I craft in that corner.

Christmas Presents

Some Christmas Presents. Now that gifts have been safely delivered I can put photos up her.
this is Bill and he is holding his gift it is a bible cover. I used printable fabric and put photos of his whole family living and dead.
I then ironed Plastic over it and I used a black piping to trim it out I used a button with a triscal on it that was gold in color, and red ribbon for the closer. I also added some ribbons to the top to help mark pages because the ones that come in the bibles are never enough. Triskal is a symble that can be used to symoblise the trinidy, red for the blood of Christ. the part facing us in this photo is the inside and the back inside are persons who are dearly departed his first wife is parents his nephew and his friend who was his second wife's husband before he passed away. I hear I did good.

More photos of the resin casting

I used scissors while they were soft cured to trip the Flash away from the pieces that I acidently over filled in the molds. when they are hard cured I can file them some too. I love the metal flower one and the cake decoration one. My DD's favorite one is the big beads and the humming bird and the Hello kitty.

Resin casting for the first time

I kept seeing resin casting on Craftsters.org and I finally decided to bravely try it. I wanted to find a way to make lots of gifts for me DD friends that didn't cost an arm and a leg but were as nice as stuff you could buy in the store.
I didn't quite mix up enough resin to fill all the the mold. We added glitter to most of the molds some times the glitter made it so you couldn't see the item in the mold . I also had some pieces that had big air pockets.
But here is what I learned in the next batch I will pour a tiny bit of resin in the mold then add the item then add a little more resin then add the glitter and see how that goes.
Out of the 17 pieces I cast,10 came out close to or as good as I hoped. and since this was a first attempt thats not bad I still have most of the unmixed resin. Wich costs roughly $11.95 but of course I used a 40% off coupon and the mold was $8.99 but of course I used a 40% off coupon on that too. I had the wire that I used for the bales so this is not an expensive project. I added jump rings to the finished items. they take 24 hrs to soft cure(can be taken out of mold but you might leave finger prints if not careful and 72 to hard cure. Now I need to find some more things to fit in the mold.