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Dirty hands/Clean Hands Life changing tip for any sculptor.

10/30/2017

I spend my days with my hands in all kinds of sculpting compounds and I literally have to scrub and scrap for days. I never have what you would call "Pretty Hands". I guess it's a small price to pay for being able to do what you love. I have used many creams, lotions and products over the years and never have really liked any to use them. Some can even react with the chemicals in the sculpting medium.

Pic below is how my hands look when sculpting!! So messy!

Yesterday was a great "What's cookin" Santa class and it was a full class. We did so much kneading and mixing of quikwood and no matter how much washing and wiping of the hands we were covered in quikwood. It will take days to get this all off our hands. I had one student who was putting on a cream on all day and I never ask her what she was using just assumed it was a lotion as it can help to apply lotion but I found it never is 100 percent guaranteed not to get it stuck on your hands. So, after class we were all looking at our hands and "Freda" shows us hers. Not one drop of quikwood!!!!! Literally nothing!! Her hands were beautiful!! She was using AVON's Silicone Glove. I was so impressed and she gave me her tube she had . I will now be buying stock in this stuff. I will probably keep it in the shop as well. Thank You Freda for sharing your wonderful tip with us!!!

Yes the teacher was so busy she forgot to take pictures of the class but Freda took a few at the end of the day with myself and Jane and Vera! Everyone else had left for the day. Their hands were probably stuck to the steering wheel on the way home!

This was a very detailed class and it took all day to just sculpt. It was not a hard class just lots to get sculpted. I think the ladies did fantastic and would love if they shared their pics when finished.

"What's Cookin" Santa is now listed in the ETSY shop as a instant PDF download Pattern and this is also a large pattern/book. 18 pages and a 1 page line drawing.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/OldMoonLanePrimitive…

If you remember the other day I shared Jane's recipe for her famous meatballs! We enjoyed them in class today along with many many goodies everyone brought and I think everyone agreed they were delicious!

Thanks once again ladies for spending the day with me!

Blessings!
Wendy

10 Comments

Charlotte FLETCHER

10/30/2017 03:42:52 am

Fun stuff! 😊🙃

Wendy

10/30/2017 04:46:05 am

Happy Birthday birthday girl!

Lisa Kemp

10/30/2017 04:11:17 am

I have always wondered about that stuff as my hubby sounds like a broken record all winter long...You need that invisible glove stuff because your hands are always rough and cracked. With crafting I can't always use lotion since it may leave an oily residue on what I touch....wonder if that would help?

10/30/2017 04:45:45 am

Lisa, I was amazed! I too don't like the lotions for the oily residue and it makes the sculpting material sticky sometimes. Freda's hands were amazing! I going to buy several bottles lol

Lois

10/30/2017 07:35:03 pm

Amazon sells the avon hand cream

Freda Bhatty

10/30/2017 05:17:06 am

Wendy thank you for making it such an enjoyable class! Just a note about the cream - the trick is to give yourself a good slathering in the beginning, let it absorb and then add a little more every so often. You can over do it and that isn’t good for working your clay. Good luck with it. I really hope it helps you! (Now I wish I did sell Avon! 😹)

Peggy Ash

10/30/2017 05:57:21 am

just a couple more hints that work for me with QW & apoxie sculpt..Hope it helps others... I worked as a nurse for many, many years & there is a product you can sometimes find in scrub stores .."insteada glove"& 'invisa' glove" [ probably the same stuff with a different name ;-) ..who cares it really helps] and the other is hand sanitizer before washing helps the stuff dissolve on your hands :-)

Kris Beckman

10/30/2017 06:22:37 am

Thank you for sharing this information with us. It usually takes me 15 minutes with a scrub brush to remove all the quikwood from my hands after I’ve used it. Now I just need to find someone who sells Avon products to order some. Also want to let you know that I love this project! I definitely need to try sculpting it.

Jane allen

10/30/2017 08:41:19 am

Thank you Wendy and Freda for the tip, definately need to get some. It was another fun day and I loved doing this project.

Donna Scott

10/31/2017 05:22:06 pm

There is a cream based petroleum jelly lotion sold at the Dollar Store that protects the skin as well. That is what I used when we sculpted Cinnamon Buns. Works like a charm!

Dirty hands/Clean Hands Life changing tip for any sculptor.

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