Day 2 and 3 of my project:

On the second day of my project, I began to mix the ingredients to make the sugar cubes. I had a thought that it would be nice to try using salt instead of sugar, so it will be more eco-friendly. I wasn't sure if it would work, so decided to do a test trial of making salt cubes in one tray at the same time I made the sugar cubes in the other cube tray. That way, I could see how each of them work. It was a fun and easy experiment.

1. Test of using salt



2. Stirring the salt



3. Making the sugar cubes



4. Mixing sugar



5. Put the sugar in the mold tray



6. Make sure it's pushed into mold



7. Gently scrape off excess sugar



8. Let it set for a couple minutes



9. Flip over the tray & tap out the cubes



10. Salt is above & the Sugar is below



11. Let the cubes set for 30 minutes



12. The Salt test failed. It did not set, but crumbled as I suspected.



13. Sugar has set correctly.



After the sugar set, I placed them all into a storage container for the following day to begin building my art project.

16. Day 2 of sugar cubes placed on a tray to build a structure. This will be a slow process since I need to work on it daily. I'll be taking pictures of it & posting them onto photobucket and this blog.



Day 4 is technically today, so I will b e adding more cubes to my structure and posting them later. I will most likely be posting in this 3 or 4 times a week, since daily I am also busy with classes & work, but I'll still be taking pics of my daily progress.

Here is the Photobucket album link: http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h259/chaneecat/Art%20130%20Time%20Piece/


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