Just Some More Pendants

 Here are just some in progress pics of some more things I made earlier this week. This time with a step by step procedure!

Here the pendants are with just paint. I like the shape and size of the small squid pendants but they have an annoying texture on them that takes a few layers of paint to cover.

The two spiders on the left are ones that were done in a previous batch, just to compare textures.

Also some bug pendants for a friend of mine. She's going to hook me up with some hissing cockroaches!

This is them after mixing and pouring the epoxy. The bubbles are normal and slowly pop away after an hour. Usually they end up nice and clear.

 But this time they didn't turn out clear. All of them have microscopic bubbles all over the place in the glaze. I don't know how this happened since the normal bubbled all popped and it was only a few hours after being clear that the small bubbles started appearing.

 This close up shows the detail better but still doesn't really show how obvious the bubbles are. The whole thing looks like it is covered with a light speckled layer of dust.

Oh well. Epoxy is usually easy to use but you do have to follow the instructions exactly. Good thing most of these will be going to friends!

Spider Pendants

          Over the weekend I was able to meet up with my friends so of course I rushed to make some things to give to them. This was also an experiment to see what I could do with this Easy Cast stuff one of my friends recommended to me to use. It was easy to figure out and the results were great. They start off looking terrible with loads of tiny bubbles but those bubbles eventually all float up to the surface and pop.

       They turned out fantastic but it's too bad I don't have anything to put them on but cheap flimsy chains. I will need to save up to buy something good for that. Speaking of which I also I made another dragon keychain with one of the flimsy chains and it turns out that they break pretty easily. Someone somewhere now has a pretty neat little dragon wearing a little orange scarf.... I didn't even remember to take a picture of it. Oh well.