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[elainegrey]

Un posted from Thursday

"What have I recently introduced into my life that's brought me peace, joy, or comfort?" I am excited by the kintsugi kit. Last night i fixed one, and made significant progress on another of the two broken tiny china plates of a set of four. We'd bought them to be cat plates, for serving things like the dab of whipping cream we give Luigi after dosing him with a pill each night. The plates were a pleasure to replace the ad hoc yogurt lid or dinner plate. Breaking a few was, well, OK, they weren't incredibly precious, but i chipped the first one so soon after we got them.

I plan to practice some amount of visible mending on a well used, well loved T-shirt of Christine's. I was surprised to realize the clothing practice of visible mending is the same aesthetic principle of kintsugi.

Comments

[altamira16]

I am very interested in this. Kintsugi kits seemed so expensive though.

After watching a few videos on kintsugi, I wasn't sure that I would have the patience to slowly put all the pieces back in the correct order. It seems complicated.

[elainegrey]

I suppose it depends on how broken things are? I just have some chips and things broken in half. I suppose i have repaired plenty of broken dishes with other glues just however seemed right to me, so i guess "the correct order" isn't intimidating. (I'm not planning on intentionally "artfully" breaking anything on purpose!)

[tamena]

so puzzling with broken stuff but making it pretty so puzzling anyway.
I've seen it but never really considered trying it. I have some things here I'd dearly love to try it with that I've never thrown away because of emotional attachment.
Thanks!! (Amazon to the rescue!!!)

[elainegrey]

The kit solutions include some sort of epoxy/resin and mica powders. I'm imagining getting multiple colors of cosmetic grade micas to do different color mending. The amazon kits seem like nice entries to the practice.

[tamena]

I found a kit I"m going to try, it's only $17, the item is already broken, I can't make it any worse right?
thanks for the inspiration!!

[elainegrey]

That was my theory!

[lyr]

Oh, neat. I've always thought kintsugi looked like fun to do.

[elainegrey]

It's certainly fun with the less than traditional quick epoxies.