More JennyKay jewellery

I have been dabbling Resin to make some jewellery of late- not really dabbling more like possessed!  Anyhow, I started worrying in the middle of the night (as you do) that there is such health risks with using resin so often, so pondered and thought of an alternative.  When my dear friend Mrs Tiff gave me a oval pendant with with a glass dome covering.  So here are some pics of  my 'first go' with resin to the current design with glass dome.

You can see that my first go have now started to show signs of 'wear'.  I didn't adhere the drawing properly and so the resin seeped under the image causing it to go brown.

 These designs are from my latest idea of doing letters for people's names.  I have given some to some friends and even sold a few.

 This one is for my daughter and she wanted an aqua necklace - her favourite colour!

 This design is for a dear friend who has just been married.  This is for James and Leonie and I put the date of the wedding in the top design, along with a love heart in the bottom right corner. There were some bubbles with my last batch, so I am going to make her another one with the glass dome pendant.

Here is my latest design with the glass domed pedant.  Much more professional looking and no where near as toxic- Thanks Mrs Tiff!

My home town

 I thought I'd show you some photo's of the beautiful Gold Coast where I live.  Would you believe we don't get to the beach very often!  We played at the beach and then went to the park afterwards.

 The flags were up, but the surf was pretty big and parts were closed.

 Here is the skyline of  Surfers Paradise from Broadbeach.

 Many people were out walking along the beach.

 My daughter made her usual dribble sandcastle.

 While my husband and son kicked the soccer ball around.

 The care flight helicopter was patrolling along the beach due to the big surf.

 Ahh- we are so luck!

Homage to the Ladies Lunch

Today I had 10 lovely ladies over from work and we had a lovely lunch together at my home.

 So I got out a special dinner set that my husband inherited from a dear Aunt and made a very 'girly' table setting.

I love chrysanthemums and daisies, so I bought some for the table centres.  I mixed my dinner sets, as I didn't have enough of each, so I thought it looked pretty nice with the mix of modern and vintage Royal Dalton.

 Lunch, champagne, good company and some laughs- what more could a girl want.

 I know- a cute little Schnauzer who wooed her way into the hearts of two particular girls!

 These two pics are for you Jac and Brooke!- Love Georgie xxoo

Chirp Chirp!

I could hardly believe my luck today when I found these little cuties in a dollar shop!

They were chirping at me to take them home and to use them as little Easter gifts.

 But I couldn't part with them all- so I kept some.  They are just too sweet!

So I budled one up with some Easter eggs for our dear neighbours, and left the other 3 to graze on my kitchen bench!  Hee Hee.

Holiday Time!

 I am now on Easter Holidays for 2 1/2 weeks, so what better to do than celebrate with some of my favourite things!

 A friend gave me this stunning 'Klimt' vase for my birthday a couple of weeks ago and I just had to share it with you all- I LOVE IT!

 Next, a new drink mix that I have discovered.  Pink champagne, frozen raspberries and raspberry cordial.  What a nice way to start the holidays!

Wearable Artwork

I have wanted to do this project for a while, but as I have never worked with resin before, I was a little apprehensive.  None-the-less, I have done it!  This is how I went about it.

I had many drawings I had done whilst on my Winter holidays in June/July, so I chose one that appealed to me.

I then reduced it 4 times on the photocopier, to get the desired size for a stirling silver pendant I had purchased for a 'very reasonable' price on e-bay.

I touched up the black to ensure it was a true black and then put double sided tape on the image and inserted into the pendant.

I then read the manufactures instructions 'very carefully' and mixed 100ml of resin to 1.5ml of catalyst.  Always have a very well ventilated space to do this as the resin is very toxic.  I did this outside.   Mix the resin and catalyst in a washed butter container and a paddle pop stick.  This allows the chemical reaction to place- heating.

Bubbles start to form and you can pop them with a toothpick.  Let this set for 5 mins before putting on the image.

Next you start in the middle of the image adding drops in the centre of the pendant, one at a time.  Keep doing this until the whole pendant is filled.

Place a container over top of the pendant so that dust wont stick to it.  Check on it to pop any other bubble s that come to the surface.

And that's it- my first piece of wearable art!

This is me wearing it the next day- loving it.  Lots more to come!

Recreation of a canvas

I have had a canvas over my bed for the past 5 years and decided amongst all the rain that we are having in my neck of the woods lately, that I would change it.  So the above is the final product.  I am really happy with it.  It kind of evolved as I did it.  I didn't have any set design or plan and I love it!

So once again I have used my trusted friend- modelling compound- love this product!  As you can see the old painting was very 'structured' and in my stage at the moment is more free form and liberal!  

Using the modelling compound or textured paste, I smeared the compound over the old painting using a spatula.  I ensured that it was added quite thickly and only on one third of the canvas.

Next I painted over the entire canvas with my trusty Dulux white wash and wear- 2 coats.

I then went over the other 2 thirds of the canvas with a mix of white paint and impasto gel- making it quite thick again, but a little smoother in texture.  Impasto gel give s a gloss appearance, where compound is matt and more dense- like toothpaste consistency

I then had this colour left over from another project and started by using a paintbrush and it wasn't going on so well so I put a blob on with my spatula and then smeared it- gee that was looking better, then I used vertical motions and viola!

I then mixed 2 shades of brown and smeared that below- ensuring there was some mixing of  the colours.

I love the unstructured lines, bumps and smears of paint and texture.

I allowed it to dry and hung it back in its rightful place.

 But didn't like it with the darker brown on top- so turned it around- that's better!
Hope you like it. J