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. I've made too many already to have them all on here. I actually thought that some of them had got lost in late 2024, and had a ranty passage here about the people that I thought were responsible and about the karma waiting for them 🤬😪 and then... about a year later... I found the jars at the bottom of a bag. Note to self about the necessary self-disciplinary steps, I guess! Anyway, since then I have made quite a few more.
The technique for the mosaic-like effect that you see in the jar above is to use the terrazzo, the fancy name for 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. In the jar below I used quite a lot more broken glass, which is why it's a bit more sparkly. Essentially, though, these two came out of the same process, and in fact were probably made at the same time.
Below - a slightly different technique, maybe a bit more complicated and advanced.
For these two, I first poured the resin into the mould, and then poured variously coloured jesmonite into the mix. Quite a nice combo, I believe. Hope you agree.
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.
Fungi
Psychedelic mushrooms – there’s a lot of potential uses for those in the epoxy resin imagination.
Some of them are big enough to fit in the hand, and would probably make great door handles for those with that kind of taste. The little ones can go on cupboard doors and drawers. But the uses are limited only by the imagination.
Flora
I guess these are good as bases for tealight candles.
And these smaller ones, below, are for broaches, hairclips or whatever other decorative use we can think of. Let's see.
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. I'll get a better pic of this when I make one again.
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 :~) In the meantime, here's a more rudimentary, but no less colourful frog, made from jesmonite.
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 or creating the moulds, and after that my imagination will do the rest.