Friday, January 30, 2015

There Many Ways You Could Have Accessible Luxury

By Janine Hughes


Handcrafted preserved flower jewelery can be made into bracelets, beads, tie clips, pendants and earrings. All species of flowers can be kept and made into beautiful everlasting pieces. The flowers that are to be used need not be perfect; they can still be used even if they have been freeze dried as long as there is still color, they will work well to represent accessible luxury.

Each piece can have its own shape and color added and can even be inserted into a frame to match the necklace. These flowers need not be real as artificial ones work just as well and pieces of wedding lace or confetti can be added as well. There are businesses all around the world that will customize ones keepsake for a price but making them oneself is even more exciting.

Resin casting is used by hobbyists as well as spare time crafters. The resin is united with a curing liquid which is poured into a mold. When this curing agent touches the resin there is a chemical result which makes the mixture heat up and then very quickly becomes hard. Because of the mold this shape will be kept for years to come. It will need to be left for awhile in the mold before being removed and then it can be painted, sanded or even joined with other mold workings.

This method is also used by dental technicians to produce dental castings, toys as well as modern product mock-ups. Due to the fact that the making of a resin mold is very easy and not that expensive many people are now using this method in their own workshops at home. It is an amazing feeling to be able to produce a craft that one has produced themselves.

Amber which is fossilized tree resin is also used in making jewelery as well as an ingredient in perfumes and a healing agent. It has a beautiful color and keeps its natural beauty. Many people preserve special keep sakes in this resin as it will last a life time and will never lose its color.

Amber is distributed throughout the world and can be found in rocks of the cretaceous age sometimes even earlier. Prussia is the leading place where this resin is found and about ninety percent of the world's amber comes from this location. In some instances this is washed up from the sea floor and is then harvested by diving, dredging and by hand.

Fill the mold half full with the resin and quickly insert the flower. Use a toothpick to maneuver the petals into the resin and to help remove any air bubbles that will appear. Try to avoid too much handling of the flower. Fill the mold and set aside and allow hardening preferably over night.

The following day it can be popped it out of the container. One can then customize it into a preserved flower jewelery piece. It is guaranteed to last a life time and can be passed down from generation to generation.




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