Kelly's Mouse Skeleton

 

Kelly over at Kelly's Thoughts and Ramblings asked to see the previously mentioned mouse skeleton paperweight that I helped my oldest daughter create. My youngest daughter, the creative one, needed some gift ideas for Christmas and so a couple years ago I bought her an assortment of silicone molds and some deep pour epoxy thinking she might make some creative things out of them and she did for awhile. But she got tired of that form of art and moved onto other things. Sometime after, my eldest (medically inclined) daughter found this mouse skeleton and was fascinated with it. It crossed my mind to preserve it using the deep pour epoxy and so together we created this paperweight.

I poured a thin layer of epoxy into the bottom of the mold and let it partially set up. My eldest daughter then cleaned up the skeleton a bit to remove any stray bits of flesh that were still there. I don't recall there being much of that left. She then placed the cleaned skeleton on the partially set layer of epoxy and I filled up the mold with more epoxy, entombing the mouse forever. 

It turned out well and is a prized possession of my eldest daughter evidently as she took it to college with her. She was happy though to take a picture of it and send it to me so I could create a post for Kelly's benefit and perhaps some of you readers that might enjoy seeing it. 

I still have half a liter of the deep pour epoxy left and probably won't be using any of it on future wood projects based on my most recent experience. I may have to find something else to entomb in epoxy, borrow the silicone molds of my youngest and use the rest of it up. Or it may just sit on the shelf in the basement for another half dozen years until another use comes to mind.