I love that skirt.  Making clothes out of sheets always reminds me of when I was little and I used to wrap myself up in sheets and pretend they were beautiful dresses.

Ok, so I poured my first resin today, easy cast epoxy resin.  I filled the molds and moved on to play with some other stuff, then noticed that the resin had overflowed the molds, so I cleaned it up.  Since it has been a couple of hours I just went to check on it and the molds had over flowed again!  Does teh resin always 'grow' like that?

So cute. I would love one of those guys lurking out on my patio!

Awesome, I have some cruddy old furniture around the house that needs a face lift, and you have totally inspired me.

Ok, my bedroom has two sets of sliding doors on the closet, four sliding doors in all, all solid mirror.  That is like a whole wall of mirror.  I want to cover, decorate, disguise or otherwise hide them.  I don't want any mirror visible, and the sliding door still has to work since I can't afford to replace them right now.  Any ideas for my mirror be gone mission?

Those are awesome!

Did you use a pattern or was it original?  I would love to have that pattern if it was one.

My name is Lisa, I'm a civil engineer living in southern Indiana.  I live with my dog Lolita. 

I love to read, and have moved from the traditional paper based book to reading electronically on a kindle and love it.  I already read a lot, but now that it is so easy to take books with me and buy new books on the go I read TONS.  I read and loved the Twilight series, and promptly followed it up with the Morganville vampire series, which I also found great in it's own way, though I try not to admit to people that I am so hooked on young adult fiction!  I also like to read suspense and mystery novels, but my favorite authors only come out with about one book a year each, so I have to fill the space between with something.  I just bought Coraline last night and am looking forward to reading that. 

I really like old school pinups and retro styles.  I love girly glam, since I work in a dirty, male dominated environment.  On my last trip to Las Vegas I got to visit the Bettie Page store and bought a beautiful dress that I adore. 

I am a basic sewer, trying to teach myself to sew clothes.  I made a quilt last summer, and have done all of it but the actual quilting, I am scared I will ruin it!  I also needlepoint, cross stitch, crochet and do some beading, decoupaging, and painting.  I am about to attempt resin for the first time this weekend!  The big project I am undertaking right now is covering two ugly wood book cases with cut up news print, right now I am experimenting with ways to get the paper to adhere to the wood laminate.

Anyway, I love the site, and look forward to getting to know everyone.

Lisa

So I was going to try experimenting with this over the weekend, but we had two days of severe thunderstorms and the water has de-fluffed all the dandelions in my garden!  Boo, I finally found an excuse not to pull weeds in my flowerbed, and it gets washed away.  I'll have to wait a few more days I guess.

As an additional note, while looking online for instruction on how to do this I found some interesting pictures of other flowers trapped in what looks to be resin and a website that says you should freeze dry the flowers first.
More Examples
A flower shop that will do it for you
Bridal magazine article on doing this

Wow, I just checked out the gallery.  Everything you made is so lovely.  I think there are going to be some happy boyfriends and husbands out there with all those pasties floating about!