{"id":31,"date":"2004-05-21T00:47:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts2\/?p=31"},"modified":"2010-02-06T15:03:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T15:03:38","slug":"gold-leafing-ornament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/2004\/05\/gold-leafing-ornament.html","title":{"rendered":"“Gold leafing” ornament"},"content":{"rendered":"


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I got several nice books on decorating for Christmas at the post-Christmas sale at Border’s this year. They’re full of ideas for ornaments, one of which was to apply gold leafing (which comes in both real and fake varieties – this is the fake) to clear plastic balls in various designs. Two things about this:<\/p>\n

1. Gold leafing is kind of hard to do on a ball. It might be better to learn the technique on something flatter and easier to handle.<\/p>\n

2. Glass was wrong – plastic was right. The way that gold leafing goes on is you apply a glue first, wait for it to almost dry, then rub the gold leafing on to it. In order to get a good transfer you need to rub pretty hard. Well, luckily they must coat the insides of those glass balls with something to keep them from shattering so I didn’t actually sever my thumb, but I certainly did destroy the ball.<\/p>\n

This pattern of random dots was my third and last attempt at applying gold leafing to glass balls. It was the only one I kept. One ball got broken just trying to remove it from the plastic tray it came in. So out of a box of 4 balls, luckily acquired very cheaply in another post-Christmas sale this time from Michael’s, I got one ornament. I do have plenty of gold leafing left though and perhaps I’ll give it another try some day on a surface either flatter or less fragile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got several nice books on decorating for Christmas at the post-Christmas sale at Border’s this year. They’re full of ideas for ornaments, one of which was to apply gold leafing (which comes in both real and fake varieties – this is the fake) to clear plastic balls in various designs. Two things about this:… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-ornaments","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}