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Hello! o/

I am the hostess of this Tumblr, Jade Rimehardt 😊 I have many aliases across the web (i.e. my main is TekuTiger), but for the sake of simplicity, let’s just go with Jade or JR while we’re here, shall we?

I’ve created this side-blog with every intention to be creatively unhinged- of sorts. Personality-wise (mbti), I’m an INTJ 5w4 514 sx/sp ILI EVLF OCIAM. My posts can get long and rambly, be prepared for that 🙂

I’m not the type who takes requests. Mostly because I don’t feel confident in doing so, and I’m the type who doodles/draws via motivation and within my free time. It’s the same for most other things. I try to balance my hobbies with real life and that can get challenging at times, but I do what I can ☯️

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My Mission, My Passion, My Goal...

All of my resin creations are made with a heavy emphasis on reusable tools and not one-time use items. I want to stand on an Eco-Friendly platform and spread awareness. I do NOT use plastic or paper cups. I do NOT use construction paper, parchment paper or wax paper surfaces. I use silicone mats, tools, cups and molds wherever possible. (Which is cheaper in the long run if you think about it.)

[The paper stuff isn’t that bad, it’s the plastic that’s terrible.]

There are a couple of things that I cannot get away with reusing and they are: my Black Nitrile Gloves, Baby Wipes (for cleaning my silicone tools, mat, cups, molds, any other silicone things I've missed), and Paper Towels (I don't use these as often as one might think but occasionally I'll need one or two while working).

If you don’t think it’s that big of a deal, I implore you to educate yourself and take a look at a couple of pages:

🌊 https://oceana.org/our-campaigns/plastics/ 🌊 https://usa.oceana.org/our-campaigns/plastic/ 🌊 https://www.4ocean.com/blogs/notebook/the-state-of-the-ocean-plastic-crisis-2025

Please Note: I’m not attacking anyone who uses or does these things- it may even seem hypocritical considering some types of resin are a type of plastic. But there's a place for resin and using certain items in the creation process are, imo, unnecessary. It’s never too late to change behaviors or the things we do. It doesn’t have to be all at once either. Taking one step at a time, one thing here- one thing there, or changing things out as we feel comfortable to do so can do so much more than you realize. A little goes a long way! ✌🏻 Keep moving forward 🫶🏻

However if you are a Resin Creator who claims to love the ocean and all the critters within it and then proceeds to continue using disposable plastic cups- sorry, but not sorry, I’ve lost quite a lot of respect for you. You are not protecting the ocean or saving the sea life you claim to love. And you are not doing the same for humanity either.

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I wanted to make this post earlier but today has been hectic 😵‍💫

Not too long ago, I ordered this 8-in-1 Little Octopus mold from IntoResin and I've been waiting for it to get here. Most of their molds are hand-made so they take a bit to be created and then shipped out. I'm aware of this, I can be patient, don't take this as me complaining or anything. I'm just stating what is. The mold is adorable and I'm anxious to get it. Anytime they get something Octopus related, I go to their site and snatch it up (majority of the time anyways).

Funnily enough, 3 days after I placed the order for their octo mold, I found this Tiny Octopus mold on Amazon, and that same listing has a Tiny Dumbo Octopus mold. They're not identical to the IntoResin mold, don't misunderstand. But they are both tiny octopus molds and super cute. The one from IntoResin has expressions; you can see their emotions. The ones from Amazon are more simple. But me being me, wanting all things octopus, ofc I bought them 🐙💗

Here's what they look like ⤵️

I haven't colored in their eyes with black acrylic marker yet so they do look a little lifeless but at least here's a general idea. Unfortunately, a couple of the cute little mendako (dumbo octopus) got bubbles in their ear flaps despite me literally putting 2-drops into each ear (making sure they were filled and without bubbles) and then proceeding to fill the mold so I don't even know how that happened, but resin does what it wants 🤷🏻‍♀️

When I get the octo mold from IntoResin, I'll be sure to show those too.

Another thing to note is that these are neither shiny, nor matte. They're something in-between, like a semi-shiny, or semi-matte. I actually like it.

Many months back I ordered that Tropical Sunset Mica Powder set from Rolio and nearly every time I go to make some epoxy project I look at the set trying to find some way to incorporate it somehow. The colors in it are so vibrant and pretty but they haven't fit into the projects I've been working on. But yesterday I was finally able to use them.

This is what my table looked like ⤵️

[I got a new lamp! Turns out my old one, despite it saying it had a UV protective glass screen on it, wore out, and was curing my UV resin and my gel nail polishes on me as I was working with them 🫠]

Demolded ⤵️

The Rolio colors I used were these ⤵️

And I chose to use a very small amount of each so that the colors would remain very translucent- almost as if I were using alcohol ink ⤵️

I know that may seem like it defeats the purpose of using mica powders but I wanted to see what it'd look like. Honestly I think they came out very pretty especially in the tealight candle holders that I chose to pour in.

They remind me of a Sunset, as the name of the set implies. And I'm just now thinking I should have taken a picture of them with a tealight in them. Darn, missed opportunity 😵‍💫🫠

The whole day was centered around tealight candle holders and I had this "set" of 2 stars and 1 moon. I figured I could make some to match that Moon & Star shelf I've been casting in my past few posts ⤵️

These came out nice but what puzzles me here is... the glitter in the moon dropped a bit? I used 16oz of resin combined to make all 3 tealights, and used the same amount of glue across all 3, but only the moon had some sinking glitter. The only differing variable is the colorant.

I used Let's Resin Purple alcohol ink to color the moon, and TeeExpert blue pigment paste for the stars. It's true that pigment paste is heavier than alcohol ink but I used such a miniscule amount, it shouldn't have affected it that much 🙃 So weird, I have no idea. Maybe it did, I don't know.

And lastly, we have the pink tulip tealight candle holders ⤵️

At least, I think they're tulips? 🌷🤔💭

These did not turn out how I envisioned them, but I love them way more than I envisioned them. They look like blown glass.

[Oh and those are not micro-bubbles you see in the picture- those are from the irregular glitter flakes and the other type of iridescent glitter I used. I don't know why the camera is picking it up like that, but it doesn't visually look bubbly like that in person.]

I did the simple 1. Pour clear with Cellophane Glitter Flake and glue (in this case I used Eye Candy's Rose Quartz) 2. Pour Color second (in this case I used Eye Candy's Fun'iki Pink) and it just blended like that.

Usually when I do that, they stay somewhat separated- the glitter+clear concoction at the bottom and color at the top. No idea how I got this effect, this time, unless it's the mold. Or, maybe the weight of this mica. Or maybe because I ran the glitter+clear through my bubble remover for a whole 15 minutes, lol. It kept bubbling like an active volcano so I kept adding 5 minutes 🙃

Whatever caused it, I really like it.

In the next couple days I have a lot of dremeling/sanding to do. I've been letting my pieces pile up and it's time to tackle 'em.

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I recently bought another red mica powder because red is my favorite color and for some odd reason, I don't use it that often? Nor do I own more than one container of it in mica powder. Likely because my room wall color is red and if I made things in red, they'd just blend into the walls, lol 😅

At first I was searching companies that are my go-to but the colors that caught my eye were either insanely expensive because of supply & demand, or they were out of stock. So, I decided to search elsewhere.

Finding reds is a bit tricky if you're looking for a true red. They're often saturated with pinks or they arrive darker than they appear, and on rare occasion they have burnt umber/brown undertones, leaning towards looking like garnet gemstones. The pink under-toned ones looking more like ruby gemstones. I think many people often think Rubies and Garnets are true reds with no under-tones but I learned at a young age when picking them out for a ring (because it's my favorite color) that ruby has a distinct pink hue and garnet has a distinct brown-ish hue and if you want more red-red, go with garnet or a very pure & expensive gem quality of either stone. The cheaper of either of these gems will lean towards pink (ruby) or brown (garnet). But that's running off on a tangent into gemstones, lol.

It took me a while but I found one type that was a good contender to the current red mica I have so I bought it and I wanted to compare it in a small project. I'll be sharing those in this post. I also got an "emerald green" because I've been trying to find a vibrant bright green. There was a third color I bought but I won't be getting it until June 2nd or later due to shipping.

This is the new Red from Luckymica and the new Emerald Green from Baltic Day ⤵️

And here's the other Red from TechaRooz that I own compared to my new red ⤵️

The only reason I intentionally included my nails/nailpolish in these was because I wanted to show these compared against another true red- which my nailpolish is, lol. They're just a tad on the darker side because of layers.

As mentioned above, I added these reds and the emerald green into some small molds to see how they look in resin and compare to each other ⤵️

They're actually really close to each other! So I wanted to see if they had more of a difference in natural lighting ⤵️

It's still really difficult to notice much of a difference because of my camera, but in person the Luckymica red is slightly more orange and slightly lighter. The Luckymica red one also took a bit more mica to color it when I added it to resin vs. the TechaRooz one which took less to pigment the resin.

They're both very pretty though and I feel like they both can be considered a true red, it just depends on which shade you're looking for. Though in the sunlight, I can see the faintest bit of pink, and in artificial lighting I don't see that pink at all. I don't know why I can only see the faintest trace of the pink in the sunlight. In-fact, it's almost like that trace pink undertone turns more of an orange once indoors.

Here's a better picture of the emerald green in the kitty ⤵️

I made some more things yesterday to fill my table ⤵️

I've been trying to get those star and moon tealight tent silicone molds back up to par for several days now, using silicone oil.

After letting them soak for about 3 days in the oil, I washed them thoroughly with dish soap 2 times and then wiped them down again gently with a baby wipe, and it still wasn't enough to remove all of the excess silicone oil, but I wasn't aware of that at the time. To me they just look fully revitalized and shiny 😅 so I went ahead and used them.

When I unmolded everything this afternoon I noticed the silicone oil marks. It doesn't look "wow" or "fantastic" or "correct" but it's not "this is a failure" either. I made them for myself and from 2-feet away you don't even notice, so it doesn't bother me. And now after demolding it once, the excess silicone oil that was in there, that I couldn't get out before, is gone, so I won't have this problem the next time I go to use those molds.

But this is how they look, unmolded ⤵️

Can't really tell, right? Unless you're right up on them and inspecting them.

Some are missing tips, that I didn't know they needed because I've always used this mold with ResinCrete prior to this and they NEVER got tips with the ResinCrete. In the future I know to squish every corner of the triangles, lol.

I also need to sand the other sides of every triangle, that's normal, to fit better into the base. But here's a preview of what this looks like ⤵️

It'll fit together WAY better when it's sanded. It's stiff right out of the mold without that wiggle room. They have this type of silicone mold in snowflakes also and I think there's a third type? But I bought this off AliExpress over a year ago and then the seller stopped selling it for a while, then someone else made a new listing of it and now I think it's on Amazon somewhere also. So if you like it, you can choose where to grab it.

[Just be aware to use battery operated tealight candles in these and NOT real candles. Real candles will melt resin and create hazardous toxic fumes in addition to many other negative outcomes. I don't care if your epoxy resin says it can handle up to 500° F heat resistance or whatever blah blah. There are specialty made epoxys that are "fire retardant" and I guarantee you, the people using this stuff are not using it to make tealight holders, lol, it's not cheap.

That's a tl;dr but look it up if you don't believe me. Flames reach temperatures of 900°+. Even small little tealights get that hot.]

And then we have these scallop shells ⤵️

I tried my best to imitate abalone and I think I got as close as I'm going to get with resin colorants. I'm racking my brain on how I can get closer... maybe brushing the mold first and then pouring this color, but these molds are SO THIN that I can't really brush or burnish them. Even pouring resin down them was a task 🤷🏻‍♀️

[I'm going to be using these for another project along with all my other shell molds, that's why they're somewhat plain.]

Here's the cute lil octo I poured with my leftovers from the moon and star tealight tent ⤵️

I feel like he looks a lot prettier and cooler in person and again my camera is just awful but when I was pouring him, I didn't have quite enough resin for him- I was super close.

Rather than making up something silly like 10 or 20ml of resin, I added in some crushed mirror glass to him. I knew there was a possibility some would sink to the bottom of his head despite my resin being something near molasses consistency at this point, but I was willing to take that risk. And sure enough you can see SOME of the mirror glass, along with some of the extra glitter mixture from the star and moon tealight tent. I actually love it. He looks amazing 🐙💝

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This is going to be one hodge-modge-podge of a post. Chaotic and all over the place because I haven't been keeping up with my posts and I have a lot to update/share, lol 😅

At first I wasn't really going to post some of these things but as time moves forward, it's occurring to me that I'll be making posts about future projects and they'll have no context without these posted, so they're kind of necessary to post now.

A bit back one of the Youtubers I watch got some items in happy mail and I was impressed with them so I went to their website (Counter Culture DIY) and ordered some of their glitters and micas myself. They have a listing for "scoops" that are random items, kind of like a mystery box, but 1) it was out of stock at the time and 2) I wanted specific things, so I went directly to the glitters and micas.

Prior to that, I had ordered some stuff from Rolio and got a free glitter. Coincidentally enough, the free glitter they gifted me was the SAME glitter as one I had ordered myself from AliExpress, lol ⤵️

I guess me getting that glitter was just meant to be, lol. The universe knew 😋

I've been trying to find every excuse in the book to use these glitters in ways that fit my tastes because I'm not really a glitter person and I'm very picky. So far I've been using them with some A6 notebook silicone molds that I can't really remember if I've posted here or not. I don't think I have, sorry about that 🫠 The past 2 months have kind of been a blur with all that's been happening. Family drama and health things are never fun (and I try to be reserved so I don't talk about it online either hence the silence).

I'll get back to resin stuff in a moment but I've been trying to upkeep with making bread too!

Robyn on the Farm recently came out with a new bun recipe and the day she put it out, I made it that evening ⤵️

She uses all cast iron and I use all metal so with this in mind, I increased my bake time on these and I might have overdone it a bit. The first night they were perfect but the next day they were a teeny tiny bit stiff or dense. I probably could have only added 3-minutes extra bake time instead of like 7 minutes, lol. But these were great! Absolutely making these again.

I also tried making that Vegan bread again with the Organic Coconut Cream because my household devoured through our bread supply this month and we're devouring through the new loaves again too. I have some new things to say about that one 🙃⤵️

When I was slicing through this, I was like omg, they look like mushroom slices 😮 My Mother said they look like when you bake a muffin and it overflows out of the muffin pan, lol.

So, the recipe says to mix all the ingredients together and let it proof for 90 minutes. I let mine rise for about 60 minutes because I noticed it was already peaking over the pan and jiggling around quite a bit. If I had let it rise any more than that, it'd grow WAY over and flood out of my pan.

As it was baking, that's what it started doing. About 5-10 minutes through, it was rising up and flowing over the sides and I was starting to panic thinking what do I do if it doesn't stop? Luckily it did stop around 15 minutes but then I had to wonder if it'd fully bake through, because last time, the baking time on the recipe didn't work for me. This time I baked it an extra 10 minutes and it DID work. The crumb came out perfect, imo. But it definitely over-rose for some unknown reason. Perhaps the temperature in my house? My pans were supposed to be the correct size so it's not that 🤷🏻‍♀️ lol... I always seem to have some issue with baking bread, goodness.

[I say bread specifically because I don't have this problem baking or cooking anything else. Not even pizza crust.]

I'm wondering if it has something to do with the yeast I'm using? There's a blue quick rise and red active instant yeast. As far as I'm aware, from reading the instructions and from listening to bakers on Youtube, the red one you dissolve into warm water, and the blue one you can add straight into your mixture. Hopefully I don't have that backwards, I have it written onto my bottles, lol.

But lately I've been lazily using all of my blue one because it's easier to just add it into my mixture and then add the melted butter & warm water + honey/oil for the yeast to "feed" and activate. This time around however, I was low on my blue one and used my red one instead so I had to directly dissolve it into my warm water and then add my honey. Maybe the red one is more efficient? Or more fool proof? At least for me, lol.

🤷🏻‍♀️ I don't know. But I probably could have made 3 loaves instead of 2 with how much it rose and waited out the whole 90 minutes. And I think that recipe could use some salt added to it. It's a little on the bland side. But overall it's not bad, it's quick, it's vegan and if you're trying to get your allotted honey in for building allergy tolerance- it's a good choice. I think I'll be sticking with other bread recipes though.

And back to resin stuff.

Honestly I should probably make a new post at this point because this is where things are going to get lengthy. I'm going to revisit that Star & Moon shelf in addition to some new molds I bought at the start of April + some that I just got today from the same seller.

These are the first 2 molds I got ⤵️

This is their Etsy if you're interested in looking at their shop.

I was basically shopping around every website I could think of that sold silicone molds looking for molds that could do something very specific. If you read my blog, I'm sure you've seen the keyboard keys I made several posts back? (This post here) Where I'm using tiny embeds from silicone molds meant for nail art inside the keys, to give them depth. I wanted molds that gave me the opportunity to do that. Much like sphere molds do, or cube molds, or pyramid molds, but to be used for jewelry or soothing stones. Think dioramas but on a very small scale and not as detailed or tedious.

The hexagon shape was perfect for me because- bees. I've been wanting to spread awareness about bees. The bar mold is simply because I love that shape and I don't see it used often. I think the bar shape is sophisticated, classy and elegant and you can do a lot with it. But that's just my personal opinion. You can always make it whimsical or magical too with the right touch.

I've only made one thing in those molds so far and ofc it was a bee.

Isn't it cute? I got that mold here at Resin Mold Box. I've had it for a while and I don't get the chance to make the little bees in it that often. I do make the honeycombs themselves quite a bit though, they're great for holding watercolor like a makeshift palette.

I put him inside the largest hexagon with that Counter Culture DIY Beehive Glitter ⤵️

It came out so cute! It's honestly one of my favorite pieces now. I have it placed in front of me near my keyboard next to one of my octopus plushies. The only thing I would do differently next time is make the first layer (back of it) a little thicker, so that there wouldn't be so much clear covering him because the bee does look a little clouded due to all the clear and crushed gold flake (similar to crushed crystal) I added in there.

Just goes to show how much room and how many layers you can potentially add into these molds.

A couple days later I decided to play with those molds again ⤵️

These are going to be pendant + matching earring sets and don't mind me showing the glitter in the second picture. That's another glitter my Dad's Girlfriend gifted me and I was showing her how they turned out in resin 😅

But after seeing how nicely all of these came out, I knew I wanted the other molds from this seller so I went back to their shop and ordered more ⤵️

These just came in today and I was floored that they gave me a freebie mold. I truly mean floored, completely shocked. Before I even saw the sticker that said "free gift" I thought they made a mistake and accidentally sent it to me. My past couple of months have been rather under the weather so this was a very kind and generous thing for them to do and it raised my spirits. Truly grateful they sent it 💗🫶🏻

I have so many ideas and plans for these that I don't even know where to start. And I have some small, but important things in transit from AliExpress too that'll tie everything together.

Lastly, if you're still reading this, lol... the Star & Moon shelf! The foam reinforcement worked!

This was my table earlier today ⤵️

The top left is some molds getting a nice good dose of silicone oil because I've used them for ResinCrete so much that they're now dull looking. I'm trying to restore them. It's working but I only added the oil yesterday and they need another day or two. So if you have a similar problem, you can TRY that. In my case, it usually works, but it also depends on how damaged or dull your mold is.

Here's the shelf ⤵️

I used the same exact everything. Same glitter, same mica, same pigment pastes, same crushed crystal and foils that are similar to crushed crystal in size. The only things I did differently this time aside from adding the foam inserts was- I added 1 drop of glue to the Dianka Pours Dark Matter mica powder I used in there and 1 drop of glue to the crushed crystal concoction I made (I mixed crushed crystal, a crushed bronze, and a crushed gold together for a milky way). I also did NOT use any isopropyl alcohol to pre-dissolve my micas this time.

Got zero bloating, or bowing, or sagging, or whatever word you want to use. None.

But I'm not sure how I feel about some of the hard lines I got, probably due to the small amount of glue I added. 50% of the time I look at it, I'm like hmmm it looks like a nebulae, it looks kind of neat. The other 50% I look at it, I'm like ehhh, it looks weird, not really a fan. I don't know, lol.

Oh here's the other things I made that day ⤵️

I almost forgot 🙃

The black stand there is for a sphere mold I'm going to slowly fill up in layers with extra resin, which WAS originally going to be that shell mold but I swap-a-roo'd my plans on that quite quickly.

If you scroll back up (or remember) you'll see I have that stand mold inside my silicone cup. I have it that way to round it out because left to its own devices, it's not very round, it's more oval. And there was no way I was letting it cure that way (oval, I mean).

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Hey everyone o/

I've still been making resin stuff, just not posting them. Things have also been a bit busy.

I got this mold a few days ago that I wanted to cast for myself and then figured I'd make more to sell in my shop or at craft fairs but I ran into a problem with it. The support in it is kind of non-existent 🫠

When I was reading the comments under the item description for this particular mold, this problem didn't seem to be a thing for anyone else. All that was said was that it took 20 oz of resin, which was inaccurate- after pouring it I learned that it actually takes 16 oz of resin so yay me, I had 4 oz of resin left over 🙃 I have no idea what possessed me to take an amazon comment at face value so lesson learned on my part, lol 😅

I'll prattle on in a moment, here was my table the other day ⤵️

The shell mold is going to be for my small amounts of "extra resin" and I'm going to see if I get the neat looking layered effect I see a lot of youtuber's end up with in their castings with their extra resin. Sometimes I have WAY too much extra resin but I end up with around 20ml I don't know what to do with so it ends up going to a smol pendant or something... I think this is better.

The mold I'm having support issues with is that Star & Moon shaped shelf there on the right side.

Honestly it could have been something else that created this issue but I'll need to re-cast it to figure that out. I tried something I normally don't do, but a lot of resiners do- and that's mix their mica powder with Isopropyl Alcohol before putting it into their resin.

Doing this helps it dissolve better, prevents clumps and keeps it from flying everywhere. I've done it once before with neon powders because they are difficult to dissolve and they are grainy, but this time around I noticed that adding the IPA changed the consistency of my resin entirely. It made it almost like an alcohol ink and I didn't even add that much. I was actually concerned it wouldn't cure completely.

Luckily, it DID cure completely, but did that cause my mold to bloat? 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is how my shelf looks out of the mold ⤵️

It's a little hard to see the bulging/bloating on the bottom two shelves because the colors are dark. And don't mind the glitters. I propped them up like that because my Dad's long time Girlfriend (potential Mother in Law?) gifted me them and I wanted to show her how the craft turned out with them added.

So me being me, I'm trying to solve how to fix this problem, regardless if it's an IPA being added to the resin issue or if it's a flimsy mold issue.

I decided to use some foam to reinforce the mold while it's curing.

First I found some tracing paper to get the general shape of the shelves ⤵️

And then I cut out 1 piece of the foam because the foam pieces I have are thin and I'd need to stack 3 of them for this to work ⤵️

These are common foam sheets that come in boxes. More on the fragile side of things, like electronics, bakeware or IKEA bookshelves (these are just examples). We tend to save these in my household because you never know when you'll need them.

I had to cut all the foam down smaller than my traced paper to fit perfectly into the mold because I didn't want them pushing onto the mold itself. That'll indent the resin as it's curing and leave an impression on the cast.

This is how it looked when I finished ⤵️

They were all loosely inside, but still snug enough that they'd provide the support I need. I really wish the company I ordered this mold from had thought of this themselves because it's such a large mold and holds such a large amount of resin, but it is what it is. I'm just hoping this fixes my issues with it.

If you have similar problems with a mold, this is a good solution. And if you don't have foam, you can try making something similar with cardboard by creating the outline with a strip and adding structural beams (not sure if I'm making sense).

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Home-made Sandwich Breads Pt. 3

I'm back with more home-made bread, from scratch~

Here's the links to Part 1, and here's Part 2 if you want to read them or reference back.

In part 2 I linked to a 1-hour bread recipe by Robyn and actually liked it quite a lot but I used a LOT of substitution ingredients. This time I wanted to try baking the same recipe but closer to how the recipe was written or intended and without all of my personal substitutions. Mostly out of curiosity and to see if the texture would turn out differently.

Though I say that, the substitutions that remained were my Oat milk in place of Cows milk, because that's all I buy, and my Monk Fruit in substitution for white sugar- simply because I prefer it. I do have white sugar in the pantry though for large batch baking, so I suppose I could have tried it 🤷🏻‍♀️

But last time I subbed out the Eggs with Oil, and I subbed out the Butter for more Milk. Doesn't seem like a lot of changes, right?

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Home-made Sandwich Breads Pt. 2

I can't believe I haven't posted for a whole month (again) 🫠

Here's Part 1 if you're looking for it!

In my last post I mentioned I wanted to make two bread loaves a month and I was on the search for a bread recipe that I like and preferably fits my schedule- i.e. it doesn't take 24+ hours to ferment the dough. I know a lot of professional, purist, or hardcore bread makers out there will ferment for days or even weeks, and I'm not looking to go that deep into it. I just want a simple, everyday, go-to bread that I can make from scratch.

There was also one I tried last month that was vegetarian with the option to go vegan that I was going to try revisiting, but when I made four loaves last month, I ended up with so much bread that I couldn't eat it all (even with the help of family). I'm still trying to go through it (I froze it) 😅 So, I'm not making it again at this time. I'll be postponing that for a later date (TBD).

I did make two new loaves though! Here's the recipe I went with this month ⤵️

She has several bread recipes so if this one doesn't suit you, you can surely find one from her that will. For this recipe, I did swap around some ingredients with some substitutions that she mentioned were optional. For example, I swapped out the eggs. I drink Oat Milk instead of cows milk so I swapped that around, and I used Monk Fruit as my sweetener instead of white sugar (can be used the exact same way as white sugar but it's a healthier alternative and not as sweet).

In addition to that, I added sesame seeds on top because last time I made bread, one of the recipes I really loved included them on top and one of my family members plus myself loved the flavor of them.

I will note that I had to bake both of these an extra 10ish minutes longer than the directions stated to make sure they were fully done. I didn't want a repeat with the vegetarian bread to happen to this one and I did my research on why "gummy" bread ends up happening, or why "dense" bread ends up happening, among other common bread mistakes. They just weren't looking done at the 30 minute mark and I'm going to blame this on my pans being metal because I don't know what else it could be. Unless it was all the ingredient substitutions 🤷🏻‍♀️

They turned out great! They're slightly "moist" but I think they're just "fresh" and I'm not used to that, lol. I'm so used to store bought, fake/overly processed bread. I made a sandwich several hours later for dinner and the bread slices felt more aired out by that time.

When I researched this before, I found this video ⤵️

My oven temp is spot on. I usually wait 2-hours before I cut into my bread so it wasn't that, and I follow baking recipes to the letter (usually) unless something feels insanely off.

[If it's a cooking recipe I'll sometimes go off script, but baking is a science. Have to be more precise when it comes to baking.]

So, if there's any advice I can give you about bread making, it's to be mindful about what pans you use and to look up the common mistakes and how to fix or prevent them.

I also made some pizza bagels! ⤵️

Originally I was going to make some small 1-person sized mini pizzas, but then I decided to give this a try. They're currently in the freezer getting frozen solid so I can vacuum seal them in bags tomorrow and I'll likely still make the 1-person mini pizzas at some point in the next few days.

The recipe I use for the pizza dough is here. I've been using this same exact recipe for years now. It's versatile for so many things. To use it for freezer pizzas like this, simply par-bake the crust for 5 minutes, freeze it or let it fully cool off. Add the toppings, and then freeze it. Seal it in some form, be it ziplock or a vacuum sealer bag. When it comes to bake it, bake it at 425° degrees for 15 minutes. That's what I do and it has been working perfectly fine. Adjust to your climate/humidity/altitude, etc.

Edit: I made the 1-person mini sized pizzas today (4-8-26) and this is what they look like ⤵️

Four mini pizzas is with the recipe doubled btw, but you could definitely roll these out larger if you're okay with or want thinner crust. The 24-count bagels I made above is with the recipe doubled as well. That recipe makes one decently sized large pizza when it's made as is (not doubled, one portion).

I'm not a professional pizza maker or anything but if you're wondering why I sprinkle some cheese over the top of my toppings, I was taught years ago that it acts as a glue for your toppings- to hold them together and on top of the pizza. And the reason I added a different type of cheese is because I like a little variation in flavor, no other reason 🙃

Oh yeah! I found this recipe too. It's probably the easiest to make so if you want to make bread but don't really have the time and want to use the least ingredients, check this one out ⤵️

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Home-made Sandwich Breads

This isn't a post about resin or crafts, but about home-made, from scratch, bread.

I don't want to use the word "recently" (because it's not recent), but there's been actions taken towards our food system that has come to light "recently" about our food here in America and to put it lightly, it's not good. People are waking up and noticing, finally, because it's getting really bad. One particular thing got a pass when it should not have. Iykyk.

I'm not going to go into depth because it's controversial and I'm not looking to cause a debate or start keyboard wars on my crafting blog. If you're looking for such a thing, maybe go to a subreddit where people actively seek out debates.

So, with that being said...

I don't have healthy soil to plant in- it's a long story. The issue is air-born so I can't even plant in planting bags or planting boxes. I don't own a milling machine to mill my own flour and what-not. I've been turning to "organic" bread flour instead. It should be without the harmful pesticides that cause us humans so many health side-effects like cancer, and kill off so many bees that they're now on the extinction list.

I don't know if people realize that bees literally pollinate darn near every fruit and flower either directly or indirectly. Without them, our entire food system would collapse and we'd die off. Slowly. Butterflies and hummingbirds too. Honestly, educate yourselves guys and learn how this world works and stop catering to the corporations that kill the planet and its ecosystem, and try nurturing it instead so we can continue living on this planet. I'm tired of this "it's next generation's problem" mindset when it's a "now" problem.

But moving on...

I've found these Youtube recipes that I'd like to try ⤵️ [With the organic bread flour, or whatever flour you have.]

[https://youtu.be/_3VkMduG7wI?si=fF94vg8eHY2iOwv7]

[https://youtu.be/YUiS0eIU9D0?si=gT31ow_dSGOmVxe3]

[https://youtu.be/KjXD6CxVtTg?si=_Yg3pdf0r9b1tk_C]

[https://youtu.be/sRK18hBDd_w?si=Xnel9RdhD2ErJbYf]

Edit: Robyn on the Farm just came out with another similar sandwich bread recipe here: https://youtu.be/DHxuQkUT63g?si=K3fkEpW--8DJGDda

This one is a banana bread 🍌

[https://youtu.be/c5db7MWYFro?si=CRJgEBbWhdwh2CvN]

I haven't made any of these YET. Tomorrow I'll finally get time in the kitchen and I plan on making two of them unless something throws my day off.

Focaccia bread is a good one to look into too, especially if you like airy bread, toppings and seasonings ⤵️

[https://youtu.be/O1WQTKuWWfM?si=5WZJ5yq2EDLRTImw]

I don't want to load this post with too many vids, because sometimes it'll stop loading them.

But store-bought bread has so many preservatives in it, people have been posting short vids showing they'll run it under water, ring it out, and it bounces back like a sponge. It takes ages to mold. REAL bread however, will last 5 days maximum because it's just a few simple ingredients, and if you run REAL bread under water, it'll crumble apart. Think about it- that's how these things are "breaking down" in your digestive track.

For the home-made real bread- you'll want to eat it quickly or freeze it.

And because it's just a few simple ingredients, you don't have to worry about it causing you tummy troubles or long term health problems.

Yes, it takes a bit of time to bake it but what's more important? Time to bake it, or long term health problems & feeling terrible + medical bills?

I've been doing a LOT of research on this and I'm leaving out like 98% of the research I've been watching and reading because I'm not trying to turn this into some dissertation or something. If you want to learn more about all of this, the information is out there online, everywhere.

"They" have created an endless loop that I don't know if we can get out of. Veritasium did a vid a while back on how this all started. I'm not sure how this directly ties in but it definitely ties in.

tl;dr: We're not meant to consume glyphosate that's in weed killer/pesticides. It causes cancer among other things. These pesticides are putting bees on the endangered species list. Try to buy organic if/when/where possible.

Edit: I made a couple of the breads! Below will be some pictures. Adding these in so people don't think I'm all talk. Actions speak louder than words, right? That's how I feel anyways.

Here's the "vegan" one (it's actually vegetarian) that has coconut cream and honey (you can substitute it out with maple syrup to make it truly vegan) ⤵️

My Thoughts: I baked it for 25 minutes (the max time on the recipe) but I feel like I should have baked it 5-10 minutes longer. Inside it feels a little dense & really moist and I don't know if that's intended but it tastes really good! It doesn't contain any dairy or eggs so even if it's a little under, there's no need to worry about it causing any tummy troubles but when finding recipes online, people are from different countries, different climates, they have different humidity's and altitudes... it's possible my climate is very different from OP's and it threw off the baking time or the recipe somehow so I needed to adjust some things.

Despite a toothpick going in and coming out cleanly, and the breads having residual heat to continue baking, I'll try baking it a little longer next time to see if it fixes the density issue in the middle or if that's just intentional to the recipe. The reason I didn't do it this time around was because I was paranoid I'd dry it out too much- being a new recipe 'n all.

There's also the faintest trace of honey in this one! For those wondering, I personally don't taste the coconut- which I was worried about because I'm not a fan of coconut. This bread would be perfect with PB&J's or with plain honey, or cream cheese, or whatever else in those categories, imo.

Time wise, this was quick to make and it was easy. Always love those 👍🏻

Next up, here's the Sesame seed topped one that uses plain yogurt ⤵️

My Thoughts: LOVE this one! I'm a sucker for sesame seed flavor anything. I think adding pumpkin seeds or pistachios would taste amazing on top also (instead of, or in addition to). So this is a winner, imo. It's not too fluffy or dense on the inside, it's not too bready, or sourdough flavor, or too yeast-flavor either. It's a perfect balance. My only issue with it was... it took nearly all day to get two loaves 🫠. But I also only plan on making two loaves a month so it's something I can get behind.

Oh! And also because of OP living somewhere totally different from where I live and the climate/altitude/humidity difference, I did have to change up the recipe slightly. I found myself having to add a smidge more water and oil to the recipe, but not much. I think maybe 1 tsp more water and 1 tbsp more oil 🤷🏻‍♀️ (but I also doubled the recipe- so alter it to your location and how you need, if necessary.)

Baking bread is truly one of those driven & dedicated- for love- need the motivation- need a reason- something- kind of things.

I plan on making two more types next month and I may edit those into this post also or I may make a new post, not sure yet! At the very least, I'll link to it if it's a new post.

Here's Part 2!

#jade.blog #recipes #bread recipes #not my recipes #no keyboard warriors or trolls- I'll block/ignore you #Youtube

I've been working on re-organizing my resin room a bit more because it's getting a little chaotic (again) and my bathroom because it's also getting a little cluttered.

Two-ish weeks ago I ordered these clear acrylic shelves and I've been waiting for my Brother to help me put them up. He has way better leveling tools than I do.

[I could hang them up myself, it'd probably just take me an hour longer and/or they wouldn't be as nicely aligned and leveled 🤷🏻‍♀️.]

In addition, I was watching this Youtuber https://www.youtube.com/@Resinmessexpress make these Ink Holders like a week or so ago and thought "Oh! Those would be perfect!" so I ordered myself a mold. I've spent the past several days making four of these holders in identical amounts; 9 ounces. 50ml dedicated to gold, the rest in white pigment paste, and marbled.

While doing all of that, I've been making some things on the side and finishing off some older projects.

Here's a new octopus! ⤵️

I love his colors 🫶🏻 so amethyst and sapphire~ 💜💙🩵

And here's some of the old projects + the Ink Holders ⤵️ [I made them in white and gold to match the fabric cubes in my shelves.]

It's crazy and amazing how you can pour resin in the same amount, the same colors, in the same exact way- four times and they all come out so different from each other. That's resin for you. Resin does what it wants.

And here's the wall shelving! ⤵️

I got the shelving, hoping it'd free up some space in my bookshelves that are cube shaped. And in turn I could put bigger things in the cubes. But it didn't free up as much as I hoped, lol. I probably should have gotten more than 6-shelves but I love how they look and I'm a short girl (5'3"). It's a little difficult to reach those higher shelves as it is.

The room isn't fully organized yet. I still have more to do today so everything is subject to change but I wanted to give people an organization option. These little acrylic shelves are "said" to hold 20lbs per shelf (if you use the anchors or screw into studs). There's definitely other options out there if you want to spend a higher price tag but for >15$ I thought these were great 👌🏻

#jade.blog #resin #epoxy

Final post for the day~ 🫠 and I'll be caught up.

IntoResin has this really cool Diamond Octopus mold, and the moment I learned of it, I knew I needed it 🐙

I love Octopuses. Need all the octo things to make all the octo stuff 🫶🏻

In my last post, you may have seen this really cute little jar. I also ordered a few more molds of that.

Lately I've been getting freebie 5oz of glitter with some orders, and I have some small glitter packets lying around from ages ago that need some sort of container to go into. I'd much rather buy a 4$ mold and make my own jars multiple times when I need them with resin, vs. buying a 30$ set of 12 containers or whatever and that not even be enough because I need way more containers than that.

I bought them off AliExpress, and I'd link the mile long URL but it appears the listing has completely vanished. People probably snatched them up like I did and now they're out of stock.

I've honestly been looking for those jar molds for around a year now and can never find them. Every time I see a youtuber with them in a vid and they say the link is below in their description box, I'll excitedly go look- it's not there, or the link is broken.

So, idea for mold companies; Make "Mini Cute Pudding Jar Resin Molds" or "Honey Jar Storage Molds" (that's what this one was listed as) and it's 1" inch tall (I measured it). I don't know what it holds, but it's small. All the ones I CAN find easily are way too big or they're not my style- no offense 🤷🏻‍♀️

Here's the jar molds ⤵️ (I tried searching for a similar listing but couldn't find one)

These are so small that the clear one there, could be made and cured with UV Resin. I've made a few that way already.

I mixed up Tiffi Blue by Eye Candy, Red Resin Colorant from Limino, Ginger Root by Dianka Pours, and White Chalcedony by Meyspring for this pour. I did leave some clear for the jars. ⤵️

I didn't plan on pouring the octopus jar but I had so much leftover resin, because I had no idea how much the diamond octopus mold would need, nor how much the jars combined would need, that I totally overshot how much to mix. But I'm glad I poured it because it turned out amazing.

It got one bubble under the lid and on top of the octo (as seen in the photo) because I guess I wasn't very vigilant about removing them. Honestly the one under the lid isn't too noticeable and I'm probably going to keep this octo jar anyways but that's a reminder to me to clean sweep under the lips of these molds 🫠

I just love the clear red in this though, and the shimmery ginger root mixed with the tiffi blue. All of the colors stand out in their own way here. Just love. Love love love 🐙💗

And then there's the Diamond Octopus; The main star ⤵️

He's actually a bit color shifty even though I didn't add anything color shift-like to him (like chameleon or interference). I poured the Red and a small bit of Ginger Root into him. Depending on where you hold him and which angle you look at him- that I know you cannot see in the photos, his color changes. It's 100% the Ginger Root mica in him adding that effect.

I love this little guy, he's gorgeous 🐙💗

Here's all my extras ⤵️

I like all of these too. The jars are going to be so useful. I could add more resin on top with their respective glitter if I want to, or with a sticker, or nail embeds, or whatever. Or I could just leave them as is.

The circles just need leather cording but those came out so beautiful my jaw dropped to the floor. That color combo is a keeper imo. And the other little trinkets need various details that I'll get to eventually 😅

#jade.blog #epoxy #resin #octopus

Post #2 for the day. I'm playing catch-up 🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️. Don't be me, don't do this to yourself, lol 🫠

I went to Hobby Lobby and got some things! Some of you are probably like... Okay? So? This is a rare occurrence for me. I get to go there maybe once or twice a year. MAYBE. It's complicated.

I got this adorable mushroom tray that I can maybe finish decorating my bathroom with or put in my bedroom, if I can find room. Have yet to decide. I'm in Spring cleaning mode even though it's not Spring, lol.

Also got these jewelry storage boxes for insanely cheap (well I consider them cheap) that I can put a ton of tiny UV Resin embeds in and they're why I wanted to go to Hobby Lobby to begin with.

And then there's all those glitters I got. I'm making a serious effort here guys. To like glitter more 😐. I'm not a girly-girl. I own maybe one dress and it's a pencil dress, in black, lol. My wardrobe is like... mostly flannel shirts, sweaters and cardigans with jeans. I'm the most typical INTJ you'll ever meet. Functionality > Fashion. Quality > Beauty. But anyways.

One of those glitters there glows in the dark! I thought that was cool, but I think it's a little weak? I had to use my UV Light to activate it but usually that's how it goes ⤵️

I think within the week I got a few more deliveries. This is me prepping to get back on track for the original goals I've had in mind all these years.

Some of these I had already, and many were new ⤵️

I wonder if a picture is starting to form? Can you guys guess one of my goals/projects? There's actually two.

They both take learning curves. I've already got the other one down, and it was the first thing I tried when I got into resin. But I only tried doing this one recently and thought with all of my experience it'd be a walk in the park- no problems.

Yeah... no.

Okay so, these ones were easy. Because they are tall. And I love them because they are colorful and cute. I immediately put them on my arrow keys.

They'd also make great F-Keys because of their height. But if you know anything about keycaps, you are aware keys have switches. My keycap molds are meant for Cherry MX keycaps and Gateron keycaps.

I also wanted to make myself a WSAD set, but the keycap mold set I own is confusing with no manual or explanation for anything so everything I've been doing has been trial and error- testing, blah blah.

This is where things kind of de-railed a bit.

I used Let's Resin's White UV Resin for the letters, because they'll be opaque and properly cure with no problems.

It's just getting these itty bitty things out of this teeny tiny mold can be fiddly, lol 😅

I also used some of my other nail tech molds (in a previous picture above) to make ribbons and ginkgo leaves.

I made a set in what I thought was the correct mold for the WSAD keys, and it was the correct mold, however... ⤵️

I made my layers too thick, even though I tried my best to keep them as thin as possible, if that makes sense. Covering the ginkgo leaves and ribbons required me to fill it too much, so when it came to add the black, and I had to press the backside of the keycap mold to it, the black UV resin pushed away and left it clear behind.

I'm probably not making sense unless you have these molds yourself and you do it yourself.

The fix for this would be to fill the rod in the black UV, or to fill the keycap less- which I couldn't do because of the ginkgo and ribbon being too chunky.

This is why I say it's a learning curve. This keycap set in particular is just too short, lol. You have to be aware of how much you can fit into it.

So, now understanding this, I tried it again but filling the ginkgo and ribbons in with LESS resin, making them thinner. But I had the same problem. It didn't solve anything 🫠

Third time, I decided to completely ix-nay the ginkgo and ribbons, and try something else. ⤵️

These are also nail tech art embeds but not ones you can make yourself. They're flat and work wonderfully. I love these keys, I just wish I made the letters in black because I can hardly see them, but they're there! My previous keys were also custom keys without letters, so these are an upgrade no matter how you look at it.

Custom keys are one of two of the reasons why I got into working with resin and I want to make many more 😄💝

#jade.blog #resin #uv resin #keycaps #resin keycaps

Hello everyone o/ I haven't fallen off the edge of the planet, no worries 🙃

Past month+ has been eventful, to say the least. I've still been making a bunch of things, just not posting. Sorry for that! I have a lot to share though! Where to start~ 🤔

Last post, I left off with neon pigments. I did get the Eye Candy purple, blue, and pinks in! Let's begin there.

I also got Let's Resin's Black and White UV Resin and some other things, like new UV Resin silicone cups.

I'd like to re-focus on some original goals I had when I first began working with Resin 3 years ago in the first place, while still venturing outwards. Right now it feels like I've completely strayed from the path and while I am having fun with experimenting and trying new things, I want to keep with my vision. Keep looking to my north star 🌟

I bring this up because UV Resin is a big part of that. I'm not entirely certain if Epoxy will work yet, and Eco-pour is probably not going to work at all, lol. But it'll be interesting to give it a "try" and see how that goes 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Sorry for being vague. So far I haven't seen ANY resiners or resin artists make these particular things in the past 4-6 years. Probably won't be showing pictures about it or talking about it this post either 🙃.]

So the stuff I made! ⤵️

One of the things on this table is going to poof because the mold had some pretty bad defects, but I got that cleared up and everything is good now 👌🏻

Here's the casts with Eye Candy's Neons! ⤵️

I learned my lesson and did actually dissolve these in Isopropyl Alcohol this time around 😅 They came out so vibrant and pretty, I love them 😄

I've been trying to re-arrange my bathroom to be less cluttered and more organized so I've been trying to make trays to match it- that's what these are for ⤵️

I was also trying to use more glitter because anyone who reads my posts or knows my tastes- knows I rarely use glitter and if I do, it's sparingly. I'm more of a mica, crushed crystal, or foil/flake type of person, lol.

This bronze glitter is super pretty though 🫶🏻

Here's the extras ⤵️

Need to turn these into earrings or something 😄

I still have so much more to post but not in this one! It's running long so wrapping it up 🎀

#jade.blog #resin #epoxy #octopus #resin tray

Jars, jars and boxes.

The past two days I've made 3 particular molds a couple of times in different themes. I have multiple ideas for them, it's just finding the time 🙃 (and I don't have all of the items, some are on order and in shipment atm)

A while back I ordered some Rolio Neon pigments and in a previous post I mentioned I would get back to them. I've finally gotten around to that! Problem with those is... I didn't realize how transparent the powders were 🫠

I've been looking forward to using them because I'm in this phase right now (due to a game I love) where I love vibrant colors, neons, pastels, all colorful bubbly things, lol.

The transparency of them isn't going to work for me- I wanted them to be more opaque, which isn't hard to make happen. Just add some white pigment paste to each color and stir it in.

My problem was, I was already mixing six colors and these Rolio neon pigments don't mix into resin well. They like to stay granulated, or chalky, or another way of saying it is- they did not fully dissolve in the resin despite attempting to mix it to the best of my ability for 10ish minutes AND running it through a bubble remover.

[My resin was getting hot on me, I was running out of time to work with it. No, I did not use any PVA glue in my resin pieces. I'm not against it. I just rarely, if ever, use it.]

If you get this stuff, I'd say try to do that trick where you mix it with isopropyl alcohol to fully dissolve it even though I personally don't like that trick.

[IPA can be hazardous to your health when you're exposed to it for long periods of time or you don't have proper ventilation and I don't think people are fully aware of this. I do occasionally use IPA when I do alcohol ink art but I have multiple fans, PPE, and Resiner's Purifier.]

Adding the white helped it so much, but I kind of wish I added a smidge more (like half a drop more to each color). That's my OCD-perfectionist side talking. I still love how my jars and box turned out though 💝

Before the neon-set, I did a "turquoise stone" inspired set (my birthstone). Using Tiffi Blue Pigment Paste, Bronze Stone Mica Powder, and White Pigment Paste from TeeExpert.

I've done several "turquoise stone" inspired sets with my resin and I've loved them every single time, but I change out the ratio of white to bronze to tiffi every time and each time it surprises me. Honestly, they never go wrong but I think you'll get some you like more than others depending on your personal preference.

I'm going to do something different this post and just dump in my photos as opposed to my norm.

Here's the Turquoise Stone inspired set ⤵️

I tried the "paint the octopus" with bronze mica powder thing that I usually see people do, and clean it up with Q-tips and IPA. I'm just going to say that I'm not a fan of that either. I feel like that's a quick way of ruining your mold because you're going over your mold with IPA so much.

The second time I poured/casted this, I did not do this. I'm thinking I'll either go over the octopus with a metallic or acrylic paint pen and spray it with Krylon sealant or something similar, or just leave the cute lil octopus alone.

[I also want to note that the white used here is TeeExpert's white pigment paste to a skim milk shade with the smallest amount of added white mica powder for that slight shimmery sheen.]

Here's the Neon Set ⤵️

You can see how the un-dissolved neon powder (I think the blue) dropped here. There's some un-dissolved pink powder throughout too, but it's not as noticeable.

I don't mind it too much, it kind of looks like the octopus has speckles or spots and octopuses are known for camouflage and texture shifting. I'm also not really planning on using the lid with the rose jar, but I made it anyways just incase I change my mind 🤷🏻‍♀️. And I do have intentions of going over the roses, the leaves, and the pearls with acrylic and/or chrome markers. I'm not sure if I want to go over the octopus though. Originally I did, but looking at him, the colors of him are really nice. I need to give that some thought.

On both the jagged boxes, and the octopus jar, I sprinkled in crushed crystal for the neon set, and I sprinkled in a similar bronze flake for the turquoise stone set, so that they have a bit of a sparkle to them.

Here's the colors of Rolio I used ⤵️

They do not have names to them, so I'm sorry I cannot list that 🤷🏻‍♀️

I still think they gave me double of one or two of the oranges (because I have like 4 oranges and 2 are identical lol) and I got skipped out of the supposed to be "red" but not much I can do about that 🙃

Edit: Here's the jars with the added metallic and chrome paint pen detailing ⤵️

Up next will be a LOT of purple, blue, and pink neon things most likely. I ordered those neons from Eye Candy. So, keep an eye out for that 😎😆😅 (Pun Intended)

These: Magma Magenta Electric Blue Proton Purple

And I also got their new: Arashiyama Green

Oh yeah! I wanted to show this too because I think this is also something most people don't know of and don't really think to ask about because it's not at the forefront of their mind when it comes to resin.

Cleanup!

I have it mentioned in my Pinned Post that I use all silicone cups. They're better on the environment to use but there is a bit of a trick to cleaning them ~easier~.

There are multiple ways to clean them. You can let resin cure in them and simply peel it out (but it needs to be a relatively medium-thick layer of resin for this to work). You can use IPA on a paper towel or baby wipe, but as mentioned above in this post, I don't like relying on IPA for so many things and it kills your silicone really quick.

This is what I do ⤵️

I have a small green spray bottle on my resin crafting desk (that's not shown here) but I'm sure you can spot it in some of my other photos. It contains dish soap mixed with water (Dawn to be precise).

When I'm finished pouring and scraping out all of the resin I can from that cup- I'll spray down my silicone cup with that dish soapy water 3-7 times (until saturated) and let it sit on my desk until I'm completely finished with my project. I won't even stress over it until I'm done.

After my project is how I want it and I've cleaned up my tools, I'll bring the cups into my bathroom where I have this black silicone mat permanently in its own little spot, specifically for this, and place my cups on it.

I'll pump just a couple drops of Alumilite Resin Remover into each cup and with a Gloved Hand (important)- rub inside the cup to make sure the Alumilite is fully breaking up the leftover resin, the same way you would use dish soap to wash a dish or dishes.

After that, I use a couple of baby wipes to wipe away the left over residue. The broken up resin mixture inside comes out easily and clean, leaving your silicone cup(s) moisturized and smooth.

And that's it with the cleaning process. I've had this same bottle of Alumilite for 1-2 years, it lasts soooo long because you really only need a couple of drops per silicone cup you clean. (It's even written on the instructions)

This stuff is also designed to remove resin if you were to get it on your skin and from surfaces (before it cures). I love this product and totally stand behind it.

[I'm not sponsored or getting anything by saying all of this btw. And I have been meaning to post all of this for a while, I just keep forgetting because it's such a messy cleaning process and holding up my phone to take pictures means getting my phone all icky, lol.]

And I should probably mention, I also use this mold release spray on my molds often- after I cast in them or clean them- to keep them moisturized and in good health. I bought my can of it in 2023 and it still feels practically full (though there's no way to tell). That stuff (or something similar) should also last you a long time if you invest in it.

#jade.blog #resin #epoxy #octopus

We're in 2026 now! 🗓️

I used to be into setting new years resolution goals and every new year I'd reflect back on if I completed any of them or not. But this year I'm not into that.

That's not to say I don't have any goals or things I'd like to achieve, it's just that I think I've studied so much psychology that I think it's better to aim for something and do it immediately, or when it's planned through, or the timing is right, rather than have an excuse or "reason" for it, i.e. new years resolution, health issues, etc.

Do it because you want to. Because it makes you feel better about yourself, or because it makes you feel happy, or smarter, or stronger, or healthier, teaches you a new skill, hobby, etc.

[As long as it's not hurting someone else, ofc.]

This last Christmas I gifted my sister-in-law those hand-made watercolors and she loved them. I'm so glad, because I was so worried she wouldn't like them 🫠 even though I know she paints. She mostly uses acrylic paint, but she likes all art mediums.

I have a mountain of watercolor paint leftover because I also wanted to make myself some and more to spare, and have finally gotten around to making myself some home-made custom palettes ⤵️

Lots of watercolor paint, right? 🎨🖌️

Also, isn't this little table cute? It's foldable! I can fold it up/down and place it wherever and work with my watercolor practically anywhere. I love it 💝 so much freedom.

I made myself two different sets. One is purely metallics, made with mostly mica powders and some shimmery eyeshadows. The other was made with matte eyeshadows and chalk pastels ⤵️

If you scroll back through my posts, you will see I've posted the mulling process of me making some of these colors. It became a lot to post pictures of all of these, so there is not pictures of all of them.

I do have swatches of all of them next to the name of their corresponding mica powder, or eyeshadow, or chalk pastel in a small book that I might take pictures of at some point. It'd be a lengthy post if I were to upload all of them though.

And the "paper towels" you see on the foldable table there, are actually not paper towels, they are these ⤵️

I was shopping around for an inexpensive towel of some kind that I could reuse for absorbing my water and stumbled upon this roll of microfiber towels.

The comments mention that they buy 1-roll of these, rewash them for about a year until they wear down, throw them out, and buy another roll. By doing this, it's saving people money because they're reusing this same roll and rewashing them vs. going through paper towels and buying more and more of them, AND these are an eco-friendly alternative to the paper towels.

They're also microfiber making them great at absorbing water, so 👌🏻

[And they come in different colors so if you don't like the idea of white and white showing too many stains or want a pop of color in the kitchen, those are an option.]

I still haven't made a supply list for all of my watercolor supplies, that's something I may or may not get to 🙃. It seems there are a few things I need to get to but real life (lack of time) has kind of taken me hostage this past month, lol.

I've been trying to, at the very least, throw in links to items in my individual blog posts so you guys can find the things I like/love/use.

If you're looking for a good (inexpensive) blank watercolor palette, I suggest this one. It comes with a watercolor brush pen and a muslin carrying bag.

Alternatively there's this one (also inexpensive), but it doesn't have the watercolor brush pen nor the muslin carrying bag.

There's other options out there ofc, typically made of clay, ceramic or porcelain and they're going to be much pricier because of the materials and how they were crafted.

[Makes me wish I had access to a kiln sometimes.]

I bought one of each because I wanted to try different brands and see how they work out, but I honestly prefer the one with the bag. The one without the bag, however, allows me to fit the little honeycomb half pans in the middle, where the one with the bag does not. So, that's the tradeoff.

If you sew, you can always make your own little carrying bag. I'll be doing that at some point. I just have to unbarricade my sewing machine out from behind all my resin stuff 😅🫠🙃 oof.

#jade.blog #watercolor #diy watercolor

Hello! o/ I learned about a new thing!

I'm not trying to turn my blog into a central place for ads or anything, and I'm definitely not sponsored by this brand, but I like to share things I like and find convenient- that's what this is.

I learned of this item from a Youtuber and from this video here:

He creates a lot of delicious recipes and makes the process of using these "legos" or cubes seem really simple. He also mentions that this is a new trend going around right now for meal prep and planning. And I mean, he's not wrong (about the trend).

You can easily search for "Meal Prep Legos" or "Souper Cubes" or "Lego Lunches/Dinners" on Youtube or Google or wherever and find a plethora of videos/recipes.

#jade.blog #recipes #cooking #meal prep #souper cubes #food trends #cooking trends #Youtube

Watercolor Eyeshadow Paint & Swatches

Yesterday I spent roughly 7 hours mulling paint from ten eyeshadows I bought for 1$ USD from ColourPop. I didn't even think to mention it here, but they were, and still are, on sale. There's not many left but you can find them here. They also have 14$ palettes and you can find some of their products on Amazon, if you're looking for prime shipping. The 1$ eyeshadows are not on Amazon though.

[The 14$ palettes were on sale for 9$ during Black Friday and Cyber Monday as well, but the sale came off. I don't know how often they go on sale but keep a look out if you're looking for a deal.]

I haven't really worn make-up since covid, so I was thinking I could maybe use some of these and when they expire, use them for watercolor. But turns out, the pans are HUGE and won't fit into any of my eyeshadow palettes so they're instantly getting turned into watercolor 😅

[If I change my mind, I bought two of each color 🤷🏻‍♀️.]

These are what I bought ⤵️

I went with "matte" everything because so far I've been making metallics, shimmers, mica, glitter, everything sparkly you can think of into watercolor. My collection doesn't exactly have many flat colors.

Seems matte, flat, oxide, etc, is an expensive thing to come across when it comes to pigments. So, if you can find it at a decent price and you're into watercolor, I suggest you grab it. Things with glitter and shimmer seems to be on the cheaper- easier to obtain side.

I'm going to add the swatches at the end of the post.

This is the first color I mulled, and I added my binder in as I usually do- by eyeing it and by "feel". It seemed correct at the time, but as I went through my other eyeshadow colors and I thought back on it, I probably could have used a bit less binder. I'm honestly mixed about it though.

If you've ever mulled paint, you know if you have too little of something (water, gum arabic, glycerin, honey, etc), your muller wants to grind into your marble/glass surface, i.e. it wont glide across the paint. That's a failproof way of knowing you NEED more binder, and I was getting that. But looking at the paint, it looks a bit transparent, and later on with other eyeshadows I was able to use less 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Who knows. Perhaps this white eyeshadow has a different recipe than the other eyeshadows which made it require more binder (and I mulled it for just as long as the others, perhaps the longest).

That "Detangled" color got a lot darker when the binder was added. It almost looks light orange. I think if/when it's diluted enough, it'll turn back to yellow. A few colors got darker, actually.

This next one, I only got the picture of the eyeshadow out of the pan, but not the paint done being mulled. I had some chaotic things going on yesterday and I guess I forgot to take the picture or my phone derped out on me and it got deleted 🫠🙃⤵️

Unfortunate really, it's a nice blue, but at least I have the swatch to show later on, lol.

I think it was around the brown color, named "Facet", that I realized 5-tsp (teaspoon) of binder was working for me (I usually use a dropper but I swapped to a tsp measurement).

Only with a few colors did I have to add a couple of drops of distilled water to prolong the paint from drying out around the edges. But I'm fairly certain that's because I live in a very dry state, with low humidity, with a heater, and a ceiling fan, lol. There's many variables working against me.

You can see how nice and opaque the colors are. When I go back to re-activate them, I can add more water to dilute them if necessary.

And because I only added the necessary amount of binder, instead of going crazy, the number of empty pans I used was less ⤵️

I keep throwing myself into this loop of- "Did I use too much binder before?" but I had that ~grinding muller into the surface~ issue so, no 🫠

Here's the swatches! 🎨🖌️⤵️

I neglected to clean my paint water towards the end and it kind of shows. You can see my clear water getting murky a bit, but that's not the important part. Ignore that 😅🙃

Glad these are done! I'll work on some more in the future, but it'll be a while before the next set because I don't think I have any colors lined up atm.

#jade.blog #homemade watercolor #diy watercolor

I finally got most of my Christmas things done and was able to work on resin again \o/ just to work on more Christmas things, lol 🙃

A while back I bought this Christmas Tree mold from an Etsy shop; this one here 🎄🌟. I've been wanting to make earrings from it, to wear them this holiday season and make a few extra pairs to give away also.

This seller makes a lot of cute molds where the pieces "connect" together with jump rings and because of that, they have movement unlike most other types of earrings or pendants.

[The lighting in my photos is awful because I'm either in a room with yellow painted walls + black out curtains, or in a room with red painted walls + black out curtains.]

It only occurred to me after I connected them with 8mm jump rings that they didn't have a second hole in the star to attach the earring hooks, or studs with loops that I like using. So, I had to get my earring post kit and attach them to the back of each star.

There's duplicates of a couple types, and some are unique. I was thinking of making more styles but anyone who works with UV Resin knows that it can easily turn into an all day affair and that's where this was heading with just these 8 pairs already 😅

I tried to make multiple color themes to go with different outfits and fit different people's styles. In hindsight, if I had chunky red & green glitter, I could have mimicked Christmas lights on the trees, but I don't have any and it's too late to order some.

[I'm not too concerned about it either considering these are a holiday item that'll only be worn, at most, one month out of the year. Realistically two-weeks. Perhaps next year I'll have those glitters and can make them in my "vision".]

I'm happy with the ones I made though. They turned out cute and will match wardrobes with the people they're being given to so it'll all work out 😊

#jade.blog #uv resin #resin #christmas jewelry

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