18 July 2007
This was a pleasant surprise! This morning, just an hour or so after I discovered my Neopod earrings in gallerialinda's treasury, the entire treasury list made it to Etsy's front page! It's a pod-themed list. This motif has proved quite popular amongst jewellery crafters and visual artists, and there are many interesting interpretations of it on Etsy. Well, it's been changed this evening to a really cute dachschund treasury - which also caught my eye this morning - but I'm grateful to have had the exposure because I've amassed more than 400 hearts now.
I have been busy creating these past two days, well, yesterday more than today. And, not as productively as I would've liked. This afternoon, I tried oxidising some pieces but to my unspeakable frustration and disappointment, they would not turn a consistent black no matter how many times I washed to rid them of grease and soaked in LoS solution (I've made 3 fresh brews already). I see dark brown patches here and there. Will have to check in a while to see how the latest round fared. Maybe after several openings in this high humidity (I do store it with some moisture absorbers, but no idea whether it helps), my tub of LoS has decomposed or something. The solution, which used to be bright transparent yellow, is now slightly cloudy and the lump of LoS doesn't fully dissolve. BAAAAAH.
I have been busy creating these past two days, well, yesterday more than today. And, not as productively as I would've liked. This afternoon, I tried oxidising some pieces but to my unspeakable frustration and disappointment, they would not turn a consistent black no matter how many times I washed to rid them of grease and soaked in LoS solution (I've made 3 fresh brews already). I see dark brown patches here and there. Will have to check in a while to see how the latest round fared. Maybe after several openings in this high humidity (I do store it with some moisture absorbers, but no idea whether it helps), my tub of LoS has decomposed or something. The solution, which used to be bright transparent yellow, is now slightly cloudy and the lump of LoS doesn't fully dissolve. BAAAAAH.
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comments:
- @ 27 July 2007 at 13:27 msbelle said...
- I was wondering if you may have been trying to oxidize something that had been treated with anti-tarnish coating. I was frustrated like that with a piece once and figured out it was the anti-tarnish coating that was the problem. I used fingernail polish remover to get the coating off. It took a while of soaking it in there. But then it finally oxidized. Slower than normal, but it worked eventually. Just a thought!
- @ 29 July 2007 at 17:59 beakee said...
- I thought so too about the anti-tarnish coating... didn't use the nail polish remover though. I was meticulous about cleaning and heating the pieces to be oxidised, but it didn't happen like the other times I'd done it. I was even working on the same batch of wire. Oh well.