Here Be De Resin

[kerravonsen]

So, here are photos of my surviving resin experiments. I say "surviving" because most of the ones made using the Loon UV resin... broke. As in SNAP CRACK broke, with just the pressure of my fingers. No wonder it was cheaper than the other UV resins...

Comments

[reynardo]

Oh how lovely! And yes, I can see how you'd use a lot at once. I think it's the same stuff I used to coat a picture to make a cheese board, and yes, it was horridly expensive.

[kerravonsen]

8-)

I need to turn these into necklaces for Creating A Welcome, if I can in time. I have a bunch of stuff for them already (mostly rainbow-band bracelets this year); and more if I can manage to be-necklace various pendants this weekend (and photograph them). We need to rendezvous! I expect they would like to have stuff in their hands before the 12th... are you (and I) planning to go there on the 12th like we did last time? Plans! Telephone!

[vilakins]

They're beautiful, especially the faux opals ones.

[kerravonsen]

8-)

[jaxomsride]

Those are lovely faux opals!

[kerravonsen]

8-)

[delphipsmith]

The roses are lovely -- the color vividness and shadings are glorious. Would it be cheaper if you got somebody to buy it for you in the U.S. and then mail it to you? I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't cost $20 to mail 6 oz. to Australia.

[kerravonsen]

The roses are lovely -- the color vividness and shadings are glorious.

I really like how the second rose turned out: you have the red in the front and a hint of gold/bronze from the layer behind.

Would it be cheaper if you got somebody to buy it for you in the U.S. and then mail it to you? I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't cost $20 to mail 6 oz. to Australia.

I don't know. If they could get it cheaper than Fire Mountain Gems, and if they could post it cheaper than Fire Mountain Gems (who charge a $15 flat rate per order, no matter how large or small) then it would be worth asking someone, but I don't have sufficient information to know.

[delphipsmith]

Hm, well, it turns out shipping even a tiny thing to Australia from the US is supremely expensive. Who knew, what with all the transatlantic travel these days?

Interestingly, I did discover this service though: Reship.com, which is a service you can sign up for that gives you a US shipping address and then forward on packages to you. I don't know how much international shopping you do, but it might be worth it.

[kerravonsen]

Hm, well, it turns out shipping even a tiny thing to Australia from the US is supremely expensive. Who knew, what with all the transatlantic travel these days?

But we're a relatively small country, population-wise, so we don't have the "bulk discount" advantage that, say, posting to the UK would.

I did discover this service though: Reship.com

Interesting. However, while I do a fair bit of international shopping, I only buy from shops who do offer shipping to Australia; Reship is intended for those shops which refuse to ship internationally, and me, I'd rather not give them my money in the first place. Though I have run into the dilemma, a couple of times, where a shop refuses to ship internationally because they have Australian agents, but the Australian agents don't actually sell the thing I want to buy (e.g. the Zippy Loom). In any case, Reship doesn't look like it is in any way cheaper, since you have to pay the US shipping, the US-to-Australia shipping, plus all the Reship fees on top of that.

[lindahoyland]

Very pretty.

[kerravonsen]

8-)