Some flowery suncatchers – it is hard to tell in the photos, but some of these have a frosted / ripple / wrinkle effect. Plus one heart made of many tiny red glass dots.
Flower Suncatchers
Tag: suncatchers
Small Stuff
I’ve been quietly working on some small stuff – working out a few different types of flowers and some glass ball hearts on the side.
Holiday Market – This weekend!
My booth is ready to go and the Holiday Market starts tomorrow morning at 10am. Come by and visit!
Starfish & Sand Dollars
Here are a couple of snapshots of the Starfish and Sand Dollar suncatcher/ornaments, ready for display. I still have to pour one or two more layers on the molded ones from the other day to finish those.
Clear 
With blue shell accents
Winter Reveal
Here are some snapshots of my latest batch of winter themed pieces / suncatchers / ornaments. This week’s beach-themed ornaments are still a work in progress; hopefully I will be able to finish them over the weekend.
Holiday Market!
I will have a booth at the Holiday Market at the North Charleston Convention Center. This event was cancelled last year due to COVID-19. The hours are:
November 19, 2021 – Fri. (10am – 8pm)
November 20, 2021 – Sat. (10am – 6pm)
November 21, 2021 – Sun. (11am – 5pm)
I haven’t seen the admission price for this year on the event website yet, but in the past, tickets were around $5 for access to all three days of the event, and you can usually get a coupon for a discount at the above link a couple of weeks before the event. The new parking garage should make getting in and out a breeze!
I will have hand made items from suncatchers and ornaments up to large mosaic windows, and a special $400 “Seasons” gift set that includes a display stand. Get all of your holiday shopping done before Thanksgiving and be able to really relax for the holidays! Check out some of the items that I will have in my booth at this link. There will even be some hand made pendants / necklaces. I hope to see you there!
Winter Scene 
Happy Snowman 
Suncatchers / Ornaments 
Ornaments / Suncatchers 
Red bird w/snowballs 
Seasons Set
Pouring resin
Yesterday I poured / decorated the resin for the winter scene and snowman, as well as added a second resin layer to four molded ornaments. Hopefully I will be able to get finished pictures of them this evening!
Ornaments II
The other morning I glued the metal hooks / receivers that will be used to hang the ornaments with MAC glue. I like to glue them even though the resin coating will hold them in place. The next step will be coating them with resin and decorating the resin with glass chips and mica.
Before I can pour the resin, I have to elevate each ornament on something that the resin won’t adhere to. I usually use silicone cups or molds. They all need to have a bit of space between them so I can scrape drips off with a wooden craft stick while the resin settles. First I pour the resin and spread it around with a sponge on a stick to make sure everything is coated. Then I use a heat gun to remove bubbles in the resin. Once that is done, I can sprinkle glass chips and other decorations in the resin. Unfortunately, once I mix the resin I’m in a big sticky mess that doesn’t lend itself well to taking photos / video. I need to get my husband to help with that one of these days.
Some of the smaller snowmen’s mouths drifted a bit after covered with resin. It’s always a new challenge, sigh. I also dipped the “Dichro-cicles” and hung them on my little laundry line. We’ll see how they come out.
Multitasking
Yesterday the friends who will be the recipients of the big Frank Lloyd Wright window came over and we decided to do another layer of resin. I decided that I really needed to move it to the garage for the final layer so I could access all sides of the window, despite the space being more prone to dust / humidity. Luckily it is an unseasonably warm day and the temperature in the garage was 75, which is perfect for my resin (Envirotex Lite).
Making sure it is level 
Layer 4 in the process of curing
This took a bit of planning as I had to mix up a lot more resin than usual and keep my family out of the garage (next to impossible today for some reason). However, after pouring, spreading and using my heat gun to clear the resin, everything looks good so far. Hopefully we can move it into the mud room later in the evening so the temperature remains a bit more consistent while it continues to cure overnight. In the meantime, I had a few smaller projects in the works I wanted to continue / start. Unfortunately this included repairs on a holly suncatcher I made yesterday. I had covered it with some wax paper to keep dust out while it cured and the paper made contact with the resin and made a giant mess. I had to carve some lumps off of the suncatcher today when it was cured enough, reinsert it into the mold and sort of “top it off” with another layer of resin. We’ll see how good it looks tomorrow (hopefully). I don’t think it will look as good as it would have had it not needed the repair, but I can likely keep it to use at home.
Coasters of the day 
Suncatchers / Ornaments
So all in all, I poured a second layer on three beachy coasters, first layer on two more beachy coasters, repair layer on the holly suncatcher / ornament and the first layers on three snowman ornaments.
Cardinal / heart shaped 
Round Snowman 
Heart shaped snowman
Today’s Little Projects
I’m on roll with the holiday ornaments. I only have four molds, though, so I can only make four every other day, and that’s if I actually don’t skip any days, which I do. So it’s not a high output production, but it is a labor of love. 🙂
I poured the second layer on the fourth “Holiday Confetti” coaster and the first layer on the other five pieces. In addition, I poured the resin and decorated a small (though big compared to the other items) Snowman panel.
The yellow on the glass is actually painters tape I applied to the underside of the glass to make cleanup a bit easier. I pour a small amount of resin over all of the stained glass, then spread a thin layer over the rest of the backer glass so I have a substrate for my decorations to adhere to. In this case, I used crushed stone for snow, clear glass chips and blue shell chips for sparkle and interest. I dusted a bit of fine glass glitter over the snowbank and bottom area as well, but I’m finding that the glitter doesn’t seem to show up very well / as I would hope.
I also popped out some finished products from yesterday’s time spent creating.
Cardinal Suncatcher / Ornament 
Snowman Suncatcher / Ornament 
Snowman with blue sky 
Holly Suncatcher / Ornament 
Holiday Confetti Coasters 
Beachy Coasters
I used some of the fine glass glitter in the Cardinal and Snowman suncatchers / ornaments above and it didn’t turn out as I had hoped. The glitter is sort of cloudy instead of sparkly. It still looks ok, just not the way I expected it to look. It might be better on the surface of my non-mold resin projects, so I will keep experimenting.