Patinating silver

So the kind of thing I find myself doing in my spare time is trying to patinate silver plate using eggs.

I wanted to give the silver plated cuff link settings below a nice dark patina, so decided to test out this fangled egg theory.

The only thing you really need to know is that I thought I had to use raw egg yolks instead of cooked ones.

The cuff links are still in the bag with the yolks after 4 days. They are just sitting on the kitchen counter, waiting. I daren’t take them out.

 

Next time, when I have more eggs, I’m going to follow the method on e-how, here.  Failing that,  there’s always Liver of Sulphur, which is significantly less egg-involving. Hoorah.

Pinning

I have a Pinterest board here: Bookity

I started it mostly so I could curate front pages for Folksy, which is something they’ve introduced recently. So far I’ve made one, but obviously haven’t got round to submitting it to Folksy folk or anything useful like that.  Too busy making stuff out of paper.

But every time something catches my eye on Folksy I pin it, and add it to one of my boards. I also have a board for cute animals, because of course that is mandatory in any internets venture.

Creating chaos from order

This weekend went by in a blur of slicing, punching and stamping. No, I have not become a member of Fight Club – all the violence was directed at bits of paper, as I ploughed my way through an order for 300 (300!) paper decorations.  It did concentrate my mind, and I devised a hand protector made of a foam and sellotape, and a new way of punching holes.

Remind me to get on Ebay after this and get an industrial strength hole punch.

During my decoration-fest, I listened to all the episodes of Cabin Pressure, some of them several times (downloadable for peanuts here).  I also ate a lot of Nakd bars, which are a sort of concentrated fruit and nut mush bar. I know what you’re thinking: ‘Yummy! Mush, my favourite!’. They are tasty, believe me.

Here are a couple of pictures of the massive pile of decorations, plus a picture of my very untidy workbench on Sunday night.