Copper Rose

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In the afternoon we did a workshop at the Metal Museum. It was Valentine's Day and all so it was themed "roses and rosé" and it was making copper roses. (They gave me some Sprite instead of rosé.) So you get the templates for all the layers of the rose and cut them out of a copper sheet with scissors and then dye them and then "string" them together on a wire. A lot were going for a tie-dye kind of effect but I thought I'd go for solid petals and decided on blue (a pretty dark one, emerald blue). So I tried as best I could to get them pretty solidly dyed (it's not the kind of dye that is good evenly applying something, and I wasn't aiming for perfect, but thought I'd see how far I could get). I was originally thinking of dying one side which was what most were doing, but in trying to coat them, I ended up with these puddles of dye underneath and I was already starting to get the bottoms dyed, so I could get them pretty good just by pressing them down into the puddles. Anyway, overall I got them more solid than I was thinking. Not sure how great the overall effect was, maybe it would have been better to have done a slightly different shade of blue for each petal layer (though when I started I didn't know how many there were). Anyway, it was fun and I totally got my fingers completely covered in the blue dye. Mary Beth's flower ended up looking very pretty with some nice colors going on.