Plaster of Paris Party

OK, so maybe its not exactly a party, but I thought it would be fun to keep with the letter "P" in the title. But anyway, for today's "We-flecting" Wednesday I am gonna share a little sweetness with my experiments with plaster of Paris.

I have always heard of the stuff, but never really knew what it was for or exactly how to use it. But I had some guess that it was some kind of clay, molding sort of stuff. I bought my first box of it shortly after we were married about two years ago. My husband was working full time at the time and even though I was looking for work, I still had lots of free time of not knowing what to do. So I tried filling my time with new crafty experiments, and the plaster of Paris was a part of this experiment boredom stage.

The box I bought didn't really have any specific instructions on what to do with it, and we didn't have Internet at the time that I could just google stuff- so I just dived into experimenting.

I poured a bunch of the stuff in a bowl and added water. I tried making it into a shape, but it didn't really work that way (maybe you can mold it like this, but from my experimenting it is more of a "pouring" type molding not so much "shaping and forming it in your hands" type molding).

So long story short, I ended up getting this awkward ball, like I have pictured below. Since I didn't want it to go to waste- I painted it like the world and then I gave it to my hubby with a note next to it saying "You Mean the Whole World to Me!" Thus making my awkward sour experimenting gone sweet!

 What do you think?

Then after discovering a little more about how plaster of Paris works I decided to make another little treat for my hubby (the non edible one of course). I googled how to make play dough, and used THIS recipe, except I didn't use food coloring just in case to not dye my plaster of Paris (and just a little warning, this recipe uses ALOT of salt, it kinda threw me for a loop to see all that salt gone from our supply). I used the dough to make a mold and then I poured the plaster of Paris in. It worked much better this time, what do you think?

"I give you my heart so we may not be apart"- He has this at his desk at work- fun huh?

I stuck my hand in the play dough, and the play dough was in a topple ware dish. I had to pour the plaster of Paris in quickly after removing my hand because the dough I made was quick to returning to it normal form, so just a little heads up if you try this at home. And then the heart I made separate and then glued it on the hand. I used a heart shaped cookie cutter to get the heart shape and then I pressed down in the middle of it. Again I had to go quickly because the dough liked to form back up, it was very tedious, but worked well in the long run. When I thought of doing this, I wanted to make my hand shape open enough to put the above globe to fit inside it, but I didn't make my hand big enough- so I ended up making the heart instead, it still worked out, right?

Anyway, that's that folks for this lovely Wednesday, thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great rest of your day!

Until next time. . . .