SLC-S26/W4 | "pottery for your home decor out of plaster of Paris

I'm so happy to join the Steemit Learning Challenge Season 26 Week 4. First of all, thanks to our tutor for leading us move by move in this fabulous trip of pottery and home décor. Pottery forming not solely gives us a chance to produce commodity beautiful but alike brings peacefulness, rectifier, and felicity to our minds.

For this week’s task, I tried making a simple yet useful key rack out of plaster of Paris( POP). Actually, it was a fully new expertise for me, but the step- by- step companion supported me a lot to complete my design successfully.

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My Project Key Rack from Plaster of Paris

Materials I Used

Plaster of Paris – ½ kg

Water( as needed)

Plastic mold( flat base style)

Mixing bowl & spatula

Small sticks( for hanging holes)

Acrylic paints & brushes

Rope & glue gun

A little oil for greasing mold

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Step 1 Mold Preparation

I smoothly greased the interior sides of my precise mold with oil painting. This formed it sophisticated and effortless to put off the plaster latterly. Since I necessitated a base for a wall- hanging crucial rack, a precise mold was complete.

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Step 2 Mixing POP

I added plaster of Paris into a bowl and sluggishly streamed water while blending with a spatula. Wearing a mask was compulsory since POP gives out dirt. I mixed until it turned into a smooth, watery paste.

Then I poured the admixture precisely into the oiled mold, tapped it gently to take off air bubbles, and fitted two small sticks to produce neat holes for hanging.

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Step 3 Drying & Demolding

After about 2 hours, my POP admixture dried fully. I took off the sticks and fluently demolded my piece. The flat exterior came out clean with two strong hanging holes.

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Step 4 Painting & Final Touch

This was my favorite step! 🎨 I painted a bird's releasing scene using blue, yellow, orange, unheroic, and brown tones with acrylic maquillages. To enhance the beauty, I added a win wall of bricks 🧱.

Later, I glued 3 small hooks for keys and passed a string through the openings to hang the rack. The closing result offered me so much happiness – a practicable and beautiful home décor piece formed by my own hands!

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Final Look

✨ A colorful handmade Key Rack ready for home décor and day-to-day use.

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Students Task Answers

1. My Home Décor Item
   I made a Plaster of Paris Key Rack( explained above).

2. Do I like pottery for home décor?
   Yes, I really enjoyed making pottery pieces by hand. It gives me treasure and joy to produce commodity unique for my home.

3. If I could gift my pottery piece
   I would gift my handwrought pottery décor to my Steemit friend @josepha as a commemorative of fellowship and creativity.

4. Creativity
   I tried to make my design various and unique by painting a birds releasing image and adding crucial hooks for practical use.

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My Invites 🌷

I would love to invite my friends @dasudi, @mohammad1076, and @jannat07 to join this pottery challenge and partake their creativity.

Post Category	pottery for your home decor out of plaster of Paris
Device	Redmi 14
Photographer	@taaher1
Location	Lahore, Pakistan
Community	The Creative Pulse

Best Wishes,
@taaher1