The Finished Markers

Materials: silver, resin, glitter

Wineglass markers in the making

This is meant to be my work table. The point of organised chaos has been passed. It is officially just chaos. I think it is time to clean up!

Perseverance Is Key

Reversible earrings
Materials: silver, resin, photograph

Although they underwent some design changes along the way (note: flexibility is key too) I am very pleased with how these earrings have turned out. I do so hope that Suzanne will be pleased too and that she will enjoy wearing them for many years and occasions to come.

Take Three...

I had done a test piece using this fabric in resin and it turned out fine, but when I used them for the earrings, many bubbles appeared. I think it might have been a glue I used to secure a the cardboard backing the the underlying layer of resin (which I did not use in my original test piece) but what ever it was, it's no good, the bubbles must go!

Once I have managed to remove all this gunk, I will attempt to fill these earrings with resin for the third time! (Every time that I have tried so far, something new and different has gone wrong.) I really do hope this next time I'll be a winner and that I will be able to to upload some successful resin pictures soon! :)

It’s not supposed to look like this!

I am using a new resin. It is quite expensive and requires using a vacuum table to avoid having bubbles in it. (At least that’s the theory anyway). I have the vacuum table-I even used the vacuum table and followed all the instructions-yet, I still got the bubbles. It really is not supposed to look like this. Somebody help me!

This pendant is a test piece for similar earrings that need to be filled with my new, expensive resin. If I can’t sort out the bubbles, I can’t fill the earrings.

There are people all over the world making beautiful resin jewellery. Why is it that they can do it and I can not?!