On friday morning I experimented with trying to recreate my snake skin. Our first idea was to syringe wax into the the skin, wait for that to harden, peel of the skin and to have a solid mould to work from HOWEVER this proved much trickier than it seems. Although the snake skin looks complete we discovered that it has tiny holes all over it, hard to see with the eye that the wax just poured out of which left me with flat skin with a thin waxy coat. To avoid this problem we thought about covering the outside of the skin with glue to patch up any holes - and try again but the first problem to this was keeping the skin in the tube shape. I found a perfect plastic tube thin enough to slide into the skin like a skeleton to give the skin it’s shape and this weekend i’ve been applying glue to create a seal around it. I hope this is sucsessful but if not on monday morning I will attempt another way to make a mould and this is something I could then use to make jewellery. 

•