HOLDING HANDS

 Helen ordered a hand casting kit so she can take a cast of her parents holding hands she aslo bought two memories books one for her father and one fo the mother I hope they fill them I well for her , we are going over Sunday to make the cast and give them the books a bit morbid but also good .

SATURDAY -Went to Home Bargins Helen bought some lights for the garden 1000 lights on a 350 metre wire .

SUNDAY -Casting time mixed the alginate  you have sixteenths seconds to mix and around sixty seconds to get you hand sin and for it to set its a bit longer if you use colder water .We used a food mixer and bowl to mix the alginate its pink once its mixed with water 2700 ml to be precise once it sets its a grey white colour and you can free your hands from the mould its made .

The mixing went fine they couldn't decide how to hold hands even though we had a practice run eventually they agreed and got their hands into the mixture it set they removed their hands one at time .We mixed the stone powder with 700ml of cold water and poured it in to the mould doing 25% at a time rotating the bucket and then tapping the side to get rid of any air bubbles .Forty minutes setting time then you can remove the mould the hands turn out pretty good seeing it was the first time we had done anything like this it was ok .

Helen has ordered another two casting kits she only meant to order one but she was doing it off her phone and the connection dropped she did it again and accidentally purchased two oh well .