I had a lovely afternoon helping a friend Rachel to make Plasterite Selenite. She only found out about it a couple of months ago, looked up a video, and decided to do it herself. She did well to get everything organised but unfortunately the results were not great, for some reason the pieces did not harden up. Maybe the plaster was old. So she invited me to come along and run through everything.
We started by using Skimcote to make what should be a 20 kilo cone. All went well except the large bucket we were mixing it in sprang a leak so we had to mix quickly, holding the bucket at an angle away from the leak – maybe there was not quite as much mixing time as usual ! She added quite a few crystals, essential oil, Kitchen sink essences, a piece of copper tubing she had in just the right size. She won’t try to unmold it until tomorrow – it seemed to be setting – fingers crossed!
Then we made some smaller pieces with a pretty plaster she bought in a craft shop. It set well and is a nice light coffee colour. Of course we used a lot of intentions during the creation.
