Decorating With Class

Make Your Own Ornate Concrete Or Plaster Columns

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Make Your Own Ornate Concrete or Plaster Columns

I love columns! They remind me of elegant homes and ornate mansions. But shop them on line and feel your eyes pop out of your head over the prices! Even 1/2 columns can cost upward of $200.00-$1,000.00 each! Yikes! Who has that kind of money in this economy!

Now you know how fascinated I am with plaster and plaster molds so I was elated to find (and purchase) my very own column mold set. Now I can make as many as I want!

"Flextek" is a company I found that creates the most beautiful column mold set and it's so inexpensive!

This set comes with ornamental top and a more plain bottom mold and then the center mold for just $45.00 for the whole set.

But you can save money! Buy just the column crown mold for around $15.00 to use as both your top and your base, and then get the column tube for just $18.00.

The cool thing is, the tube can be cast over and over to make pieces that stack one on top of the other (morter the joints to make them stay put when using concrete and use joint compound or plaster of paris when using plaster) and create columns as tall as you wish.


I love the set I purchased and have made a table like the one shown but I used beveled glass for the top. It's fantastic and looks like it cost a fortune!

Looking to make extra money? Create columns and then sell them at craft fairs, paint or faux finish them and consign them to furniture and gift shops.

I love great finds like this and know you will too!

Ornamental Plaster Lay Outs for Easy Victorian Plaster

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Ornamental Plaster Lay Outs for Easy Victorian Plaster

Few people don't just "love" that luscious, Victorian plaster found in Victorian homes, mansions and state buildings. Laid out in to ornate frames or medallions around light fixtures, or as beautiful friezes over doorways or frames on a wall to serve as architectural detailing. It's practically a lost art, yet it's so beautiful and we all have admired it from time to time.

A few years ago, I decided to set out on a venture of showing the average home owner and professional faux finish artist, just how easy doing ornamental plaster is.

I developed the mold line so you could make your own pieces easily and cheaply with just plaster of paris.
I showed you how to cast the molds with plaster of paris and even showed you how to attach them to the walls and ceilings.
But what's been missing all this time are the patterns in which to follow!

So here they come.....one at a time.

We will be featuring these lay-outs on our website and you will now be able to see what combined designs would look like in creative lay outs that are super easy to do on your own ceilings and walls.

We will tell you which molds make up each lay out, the size of the finished lay out and exactly how many pieces from each featured mold to make. No more guessing or trying to figure it out for yourself (unless of course, you are that ultra creative type who has visions of your own!).

For instance, the above design uses just 3 molds...the Wall Frame Set Mold, The Floral Arch Mold and the Delicate Flower Mold. The frame, once finished, measures a whopping 72" long by 40" wide and is drop dead gorgeous.

To have a professional plaster artist create this design on your ceiling would cost a fortune! But you can do it yourself with around 2 bags of plaster of paris (Approximately $14.00) and our 3 molds!

Watch the website for more and more lay out designs to be added. OK, we're excited....aren't you?

Plaster Art on Canvas

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Plaster Art on Canvas

If you've been reading my blog for very long, you know me well enough to know that I'm a plaster FREAK! Any art form involving plaster just fascinates the tar out of me.

Well, you can just imagine how elated I was to find the site of Sandra Snyder fro Dimensions of Nature.

This lady's work is so original and absolutely beautiful.

Her mastery of her craft is fine tuned and her use of colors is divine, with soft, soothing pallets that are not at all overwhelming.

But Tom Moberg of the Moberg Gallery, really brought me to my knees and when you click his link you will see just why. I covet those walls with the same passion that I do a Prada hand bag that is way out of my price range!

This man is the ULTIMATE plaster artist and I am completely in awe.