Saturday, October 17, 2009

Peanut's hands and feet sculpture

A month plus ago, we brought Peanut to have her hands and feet to be casted into sculptures. We feel that this is going to be a great keepsake for us. After all, she's at this age only once and babies hands and feet are especially cute at this age and we want to have something to remember by forever.

So we made an appointment with Melissa, the lady who's going to do the sculptures, and went to her home on a Saturday afternoon. She promises us that it's only gonna take 10 minutes, and it's going to be very quick and painless (sounds like the Pedaetrician when she's about to give Peanut her shots). Once we arrived, we waited for a bit while she started making a pot of pink paste.

Waiting to be "casted"

hands first

Melissa started off with Peanut's hands first. Basically, she wrapped a glob of pink paste around her hands and waited for a few seconds before removing it gently. Ditto to her feet as well. I can't remember but she did either the hands or feet twice as standard procedure, just in case the first moulds cannot make it. *pats Melissa's back for good risk management strategy*


feet next!

Once it's done, we chose the frames, the color of the scupltures (either gold or silver), what kind of inscription do we want (we chose to put her name, birth date and her current age) the background color to mount the sculptures, paid the deposit and we're done!!!! Easy peasy! And Melissa was also very easy to work with. She was very gentle with Peanut so she never cried at all. In fact she was quite happy.


*Proof*

We had to wait for a month plus for the whole thing; presumably to wait for the casts to dry properly, to get it colored and to have it mounted and framed. So we finally got it today.


Jeng jeng jeng!!!!


*Satisfied!!!!*


18 comments:

Cynful Pleasure said...

nice nice... :D

The Peanut Momster said...

Cynthia: thanks :)

Josie said...

I like~ Saw it on @bigbosswill's FB and just knew something will be up here as well...

The Peanut Momster said...

Josie: yeah, he stole my picture and posted it there. kkekeke

Who is tAuRus?? said...

fuah like some prize you win at competitions. hehee but very nice wor. i wanna do my hands also! hahaha

The Peanut Momster said...

Taurus: eh they also got do for parents and babies combo. kekeke

kiLikiNa said...

good that you finally got it! hehehe!

The Peanut Momster said...

christine: yalor i waited so long for it! hehe

cre8tone said...

Wow! This is so nice!~

The Peanut Momster said...

Little prince: thanks!! :)

Leona Lim said...

cool, how much wor..quite pricey rite. n what sign language is she showing there hehe

The Peanut Momster said...

Leona: yalor, it's pricy i.e. RM390, but consoled myself by saying that this thing is gonna last forever, and her feet and hands will never get to this size anymore.

and that's a peace out sign.i think. hahhhaah

Pei Chyi said...

eh it turned out really good! can see its quite sharp hoh? eeeks i also wannnn

The Peanut Momster said...

PC: yeah, it's pretty good. can see all the lines on the feet and hands. eh u do for ur baby next time la. i think the tinier it is, the nicer it is. if too big, not so nice already.

Leona Lim said...

getting lots of things u wrote about, first i got bros, now im looking at envirosax! haha

The Peanut Momster said...

Leona: haha sharing is caring. Good things are meant to be shared! :)

Pam Song said...

She charged me RM440! -_-''' And didn't really do as per the picture we agreed upon for the hands and feet placement. Boo. T_T

The Peanut Momster said...

Pam: wah naik harga de ah??

We did one for BabyD last year also, wif the same layout as peanut's, but i dun remember paying RM440 also Aiyo..inflation inflation T T. Luckily i'm stopping at 2 kids haha

http://evathepeanut.blogspot.com/2012/04/hands-and-feet-sculpture.html