So we took Phoebe along and got her cute little hands and feet cast in the moulds.
But gosh it's so expensive! I was so shocked by the price, that for a while I thought about not getting it done. Plus the cheapest I found locally to me was £140 for each set... Isn't it mad!
I didn't want to fork out so much money, so I started looking into other options. Of course I could have done it myself because I love a good D.I.Y job, but I wanted something that wouldn't look to much like I'd done it myself... you know what I mean?! Thankfully I found an alternative.
Bojangles is a crafting cafe, which mainly does paint your own pottery, but they have a lot of other crafts too, included feet and hand plaster impressions for babies. And the price was so much more reasonable. Take a look here.
So we took Phoebe along and got her cute little hands and feet cast in the moulds. It took about two weeks for them to be ready for us to collect, and I went for the copper/bronze design as I think it looks really lovely, and I'm so happy with how they turned out. Plus it's so cute how you can see all the little lines in her skin.
I'm over the moon with how they turned out, and totally recommend the plaster impression casts.
Whilst looking into casting options, I came across a service where you could get them cast and mounted into frames, but as I said before the price was just so ridiculous. So I thought I could do that myself and that's exactly what I've done, and it was super easy...
The frames where super cheap from Hobbycraft, and it took me about 10 minutes to make.
I took some thick embossed white card, cut it to shape and glued it to the base of the frame, next I glued each casting onto the card and hey presto it was done. Told you it was super easy...
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