It started last Christmas. My friends Troy and Katie sent us an epoxy resin starter kit from Amazon EU* that included a couple of bottles of A/B mix, some mica powder colors, and some mixing tools. When I called to thank them, Troy explained that there was more coming.

“Great,” I responded. Then we waited for the next package to arrive. When it did, it contained the final thing we needed to actually play with the resin kit: a silicon mold. See, the way this works is you mix up the liquid resin, add in some color or glitter or what have you, and then pour the whole thing into a mold. Without the mold, you’re not really making anything, instead, just doing a lot of mixing. It’s like mixing up the cake batter but then just leaving it in the bowl.

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