The only way I can describe my weekend is like this: I’ve been on an art bender.
You know, where you just get totally carried away by the making and the doing and the cutting and gluing and the whole lovely creative process…so carried away that the next thing you know, you’ve got 28 pairs of Ice Resin earrings and haven’t been to the loo for hours.
Also, that you forgot the soup is on the stove.
This weekend I had a couple of lovely chunks of time when Keith and Anna went swimming, then naptime, then my usual wild Saturday night tucked up in my room—and I was able to really spread out and make all kinds of fun stuff.
Hair clasps with vintage buttons. I could have made a zillion of these!Post earrings with vintage buttons (upside down while the glue dries).Earrings stuck into a giant piece of styrofoam packing material to keep them steady while the resin sets. The styrofoam is from when we got our new dryer. Yes, neighbor lady, that’s why I was digging around in our trash can Saturday morning.Every time I make a batch of jewelry, there’s one piece that I absolutely cannot bear to part with…this time, it’s this ring. Trust me, it looks prettier when it’s not stuck into a kitchen sponge to dry!MAJOR fun! I adore these lightweight wooden hearts from Art Chix. They come with the patterned design, so I added words, coated them in Ice Resin, then sprinkled fine clear glitter into the resin. A bail glued to the back makes them instant pendants or charms. Swoon!
Love the ice resin hair pins with vintage buttons, especially the way you’ve grouped smaller and larger buttons side-by-side in an asymmetrical way. Very cool compositions.
Your post prompted me to look up Ice Resin, which I had not heard about. I always was under the impression that resin is a very difficult substance to use and that it’s highly volatile, etc. Clearly, I am way out of date on my knowledge of resins, since you don’t even need to use Ice Resin outdoors!
Thank you very much for sharing your jewelry art binge.
This is all SO pretty! I wanna come and play!
I love all the jewelry. I’m a jewelry person and I have a lot of my own, but I love the beautiful jewelry you make. I have so many old buttons from my mother and mother-in-law. You’ve given me some ideas!! Thanks honey.
I also love the ring you can’t part with. I’d keep it too!!
I think that ring would be a wonderful Christmas gift for your sister!
Love the ice resin hair pins with vintage buttons, especially the way you’ve grouped smaller and larger buttons side-by-side in an asymmetrical way. Very cool compositions.
Your post prompted me to look up Ice Resin, which I had not heard about. I always was under the impression that resin is a very difficult substance to use and that it’s highly volatile, etc. Clearly, I am way out of date on my knowledge of resins, since you don’t even need to use Ice Resin outdoors!
Thank you very much for sharing your jewelry art binge.
This is all SO pretty! I wanna come and play!
I love all the jewelry. I’m a jewelry person and I have a lot of my own, but I love the beautiful jewelry you make. I have so many old buttons from my mother and mother-in-law. You’ve given me some ideas!! Thanks honey.
I also love the ring you can’t part with. I’d keep it too!!
I think that ring would be a wonderful Christmas gift for your sister!