botox for flowers, i want!!!!

I'm so obsessed with learning hot to make poly resin coated flowers.  for a million different ideas....
for...barrettes, jewelry, wedding favors/wedding flower arangements (not getting married anytime soon but wedding stuff is some serious ching, how cool would it be to have all your bridal flowers preserved indefinitely, think of the possibilites people... I can see this on the wedding central channel in my head right now)!!!!  think of lovely centerpiece arrangements with stem to petal dipped in a clear resin preserving the flowers for ever sitting in a cylindrical glass vase( hey a gal can dream, right?)... think of the 5-10 thousand people spend on FUCKING FLOWERS, and then they just get thrown away. What about the poor guests who are allergic to flowers?

case in point...it's like botox for flowers.

i am the type of gal who loves to put a fresh flower found on a walk in my hair and wear it all day... with resin dipped flowers you can do it... they sold them at the Hoboken Arts and Craft Fest which was my first time seeing them... but for 65 and up... and there are only orchids and roses... so boring... and then i found this etsy store that sells them, gorgeous, but still lacks the flowers i'd like to see.
let's show gardenias, zinnias, chrysanthemums, poppies, and queen anne's lace some love too.   also no one has them preserved WITH the stem... just a single rose in a vase with thorns and all would be simply lovely.

there's a place that you can buy the flowers here (they call them beads) but alas they are only 1-1.5 inches... i want at lease a 3 inchers, not to mention expensive (for me at least).

so fellow diy-ers... i vow that when i figure out how to do this i will post it, maybe even a video... so far i have researched this subject and found little how to do it....but i will, because that's how i am. 


besides the poly resin coating (kinda toxic but very effective) i am also researching a green (but slightly less effective) method using 100% natural beeswax...  it was very popular in the 1700s is cool but has some downsides.  it dulls the color and doesn't preserve the flowers indefinitely... i'm going more for the poly resin.

candy, fruit, h'orderves, oh my!

I made this after becoming obsessed with finding a purpose for my favorite plates that my mom gave me in my first apartment.  When my ex and I split, he decided to keep half of the plates, so now I only have a few.  I decided to make a cupcake platter to use for gatherings.  I loved the way my first one came out so much that I made my best friend and mother one too.
I'd recommend scoring some antique plates at a thrift store.  The glass candle sticks I got at the dollar tree.

Daybed lounger

Ok so this one was a long time coming...The daybed that I got for free on craigslist ended up costing me around 465.00 in eye care... The spring that loads the staples shot back at my eye and scraped my poor little eye ball, so one clinic, one specialist, and anti-bioitics later I have a great lounge (and thank God a functioning, healed eye ball...) WEAR SAFETY GOGGLES!


I also sewed the body pillow out of left over fabric and used stuffing that I had lying around.


I love this lounge, and so do my kitties.  If you have a nook by a window I'd suggest doing something like this...

Did I have to rock the eye patch for a day or 2?-true... Do I look like poo in this pic?-true  Did that shiny metal thing that is out hit me in my eyeball? -true ... Will i ever craft again sans goggles?- false