I received my Austro-Hungarian badge today

[pimpinett]

and it's even better than I hoped it would be, especially after some polish. Photos tomorrow.

Am also bleaching bird and lemming bones for a pair of earrings to match the Carmen Miranda turban, which I will wear on Saturday if everything goes according to plan. Artificial cherries, buttons and bones.



Here it is!

Comments

[lasergirl.livejournal.com]

Oohh! Don't bleach too much or you will dissolve those lovely little bones. Sometimes just toothbrushing them with peroxide will do wonders....

(yes, I have dissolved bird heads. Why do you ask?)

[pimpinett.livejournal.com]

I think I overdid it a little on the bird skull, actually, it's a little more fragile now, but it should be fixable somehow. It's very white and very clean now, at least. :)

[lasergirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah I boiled a seagull skull and it got very chalky. But I think those bones tend to be a little more fragile because they are birds?? I'm not sure.

[pimpinett.livejournal.com]

Possibly. The lemming skull is definitely sturdier than the bird skull, I will say that, and they're about the same size. Maybe the bird skull is thinner, but softer and more elastic? I've seen birds fly head first into windows apparently without cracking the skull, so they can't be that fragile.