Poor unfortunate souls!

This week I've turned a failure into a success? I guess the success part depends what people think of the finished piece. I'll start with the failure.

As you can see, this is a resin piece, but that the resin was old so it went cloudy. I was going to throw it away, when it reminded me of something...

So, I decided to try and use the orb for an ursula themed set of mini drawers. I used stamperia steampunk octopus moulds for the tentacles, and tried to mould a plinth for the orb myself, out of paper clay. Once dry, I painted it all with black gesso, then painted the tentacles with purple and white shimmer paint, as well as painting the drawer fronts purple, and the drawer knobs gold.

I also put a little something in one of the drawers.

A mermaids tail and the shell ursula kept Ariels voice in! Looks like ariel didn't triumph in this version....

I've also been working on the stitches. One third complete on the secret stitch, and here is the progress on the other one.

Until next time

Ems

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