WOYWW145

Happy Wednesday and happy WOYWW everyone!
Enough of the waffle that no one reads eh? You just want to see the mess!
Actually, not that messy! Lots of things on the go means a clear up before I start, so its looking fairly tidy on the desk...

Bit of a coincidence in that both my magazine projects this month are focussing on resin, so my desk is really a 'using up whats left' photo. As you know if you work with resin, if there's any left in the pot when you've done your main item, you need to fill up random moulds so there's no resin waste! So, i've coloured the left over resin with orange glitter and used a tiny flower mould and a mould I made ages ago of a winged heart. Thats the purple thing on the right............ Its a fab shape when its done, I used it for a previous mag project and made this..................

The heart was initially plain black resin, but a light swipe with gold paint gives a nice antique-y look.
I usually use Easy Cast resin, but one project was focussing on a different brand, Ice Resin. (Thats why you can see two brands in the main pic!) Gave me a good opportunity to compare them, and they actually are very very similar. The Ice Resin is a smidge clearer when cured than the Easy Cast, but thats about it! Easy Cast is cheaper and easier to get hold of though........
What else do I do with resin? lots......mostly making funky and kitsch jewellery, always a huge seller wherever there are lots of children present! Long ago dtitched the 'posh' jewellery if I was doing a school fair or fete, the resin stuff flies off the stall! This kind of thing...

(Cupcake rings modelled beautifully by eldest daughter who has a study day off college!)
Right, that's me done for this week!
I'm going off to blog hop...why don't you join me! Julia has all the details of all the fabulous desks to visit!
Love Trish xxxx