This is the beginning of the giving season, and I always get way more ideas than I have time for. I want to make everyone on my gift list something really special; I want to load my studio walls and shelves with drop dead new art for people to buy to give to others. Unrealistic I tell myself. So I'll do what I often do. I'll zero in on one favorite thing and make a bunch of it. This year that favorite thing is "nature molded" chocolates.
I don't want to give it all away, because I'm going to be publishing the how-to in the next issue of the Nature Printing Society newsletter – due out in January. You can see the molds I used in the above photo. I used REAL shells to make the molds from a nifty product called Amazing Mold Putty (it's food grade), and then followed my mother's directions for melting and pouring the chocolate. I made a bunch to put in the welcome bags at the 2013 NPS Workshop in Charleston, Oregon, last September and they were a big hit. Easy and fun to do!
I don't want to give it all away, because I'm going to be publishing the how-to in the next issue of the Nature Printing Society newsletter – due out in January. You can see the molds I used in the above photo. I used REAL shells to make the molds from a nifty product called Amazing Mold Putty (it's food grade), and then followed my mother's directions for melting and pouring the chocolate. I made a bunch to put in the welcome bags at the 2013 NPS Workshop in Charleston, Oregon, last September and they were a big hit. Easy and fun to do!
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