Heatopher's Trinkets
Not so worthless, I believe! I normally make these with the resin that is left over when I'm working on larger projects, but that doesn't mean that any less love or passion goes into them.
Indeed, it's almost certainly true that these are some of the more beautiful objects that I've created, and that quite often the larger object that I was making at the same time didn't turn out so wonderful.
Jars
Some of these jars are seriously beautiful, but unfortunately a few of them got lost in late 2024, in a context which still makes me very angry when I think about it, and unfortunately I only have the photos here to remember them 🤬😪 I’ll draw a veil over that. The people responsible for that loss will face their karma. I need to make a few more in order to let it go. They're coming sooooooooooon.
The technique for that mosaic-like effect is to use the leftover bits of jesmonite from larger projects. The stuff basically dries out in the measuring jug, and then I keep it for decorating projects like these.
Coasters
I guess it may well start with coasters for most epoxy-heads. There might be enough epoxy resin coasters in the world to string them at least once round the Earth’s circumference, but I can’t corroborate that number. As you can see if you follow this link, one of my first successes with epoxy was a fun little set of coasters which I made with some rusty old screws. But I’ve made some nicer ones since then. After I got into pressing flowers and leaves, it seemed to me that coasters were the perfect place to start preserving them for a little while, if not for eternity.
The coasters which you see in this section are in fact no longer in the Northern Hemisphere. They were given away as gifts to friends on a trip to Brazil. I’ve been too busy building this website to make many more since then, but there will be more soon, if anyone actually wants to buy them, now that they’re so common in the world.
Flora
Pedants’ Corner - Should I rename this section “Fungi”? I guess that would be a bit too fussy, and anyway I do have some flower moulds, as well as the mushrooms. So there will also be some of that on here eventually. Anyway, psychedelic mushrooms – there’s a lot of potential uses for those in the epoxy resin imagination. The first of these two mushrooms is big enough to fit in the hand, and I think it would make a great door handle. But the uses are limited only by the imagination.
Fauna
I love these sleeping foxes. Along with the koi, which you can see on the trays that I’ve made already (and will come back to soon enough), these will be great on the trays, and in many other contexts which I still haven’t thought of.
And here’s one of my slightly madder ideas – an LED frog. It was a while ago that I made that guy as an experiment. It was pretty fiddly, and not yet the finished article, but proof of concept at least, and get back to making these again at some time in the near future :~)
Weird Stuff
Plenty of chance to add to this section in the future, no doubt. I’m pretty fond of weird things, even though they don’t do me any good sometimes. They make life interesting, though. I’ll be making more of these things over time. It’s only a matter of finding the moulds, and after that my imagination does the rest.