I hate wasting resin. I realize a little leftover isn’t a big deal in the grand scheme of what I have to get done every day, but I hate it nonetheless. There’s just something about throwing away epoxy resin that I worked so hard to measure, mix, and get bubble-free that seems so … well […]
Tag: experiments
What You Need to Know Before You Use Nail Polish with Resin
What happens when you use resin and nail polish together? Confession time. I have this weird quirk about needing to buy stuff from the bargain bin of stores and try to use them in resin. It’s like I’m imagining myself on one of those cooking shows and have to use a specific ingredient in a […]
Five things not to do when casting resin
One of the best ways to learn about resin is to push it to its limit. Put another way, you want to push it to fail. Why? I can easily say I’ve learned more from my resin mistakes than any of my successes. Being afraid of not making mistakes is where that comes from. Of […]
Casting resin in a soap mold – Not a good idea!
I get lots of questions about using molds, not designed for resin, including casting resin in a soap mold. Sometimes non-traditional molds work, sometimes they don’t. In cleaning up my studio this week, I found a plastic soap mold. It was at that point that I thought to myself, “How a big a disaster can […]