made by mee

I have been really busy this last week trying to make moulds and to cast some new Fairy Doors.  My wooden doors are taking sooooooo long to make that it is hardly worth my while, by the time I have marked out the wood, routed, cut, shaped, rough sanded, smooth sanded and done the final ‘bits’ then painted and finished I really need to charge about £10 to cover my time which is sooo frustrating, so I am trying to make some resin doors in the hope that I can produce them faster, most of the time I am playing ‘catch up’ and the fairy doors sell faster than I can make them which causes me a lot of stress.

I have spend the last week sculpting several doors and making several moulds.  Quite a few moulds have come and gone in this process.  As it stands I currently have three different moulds that I feel are useable although I am still not 100% happy with them, but will I ever be?

I have also spent the longest time trying to get the paint finish right on the doors, but I think I might be there now.  Sadly I don’t have a brown paint just now so am only making coloured doors but if this resin thing is a goer then I will just have to buy some more paint!

I am going to ask for a couple of opinions on the finished resin doors and then if it is positive enough for me I will go into production - woot!

I have a craft fair this weekend at The Corinthian Bar, Glasgow so this might be your last chance to buy wooden doors.  I have worked so hard on the resin ones I am not sure if I want to go back to all the cutting and sanding now.

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Edited to add a rubbish quick photo of my moulds!