For real, I looked for it in stunned bewilderment for several minutes before I accepted the fact that I now own a car without a dipstick. Is there some hidden advantage to the digital dipstick? I mean, sure the digital is cool, but both would be better.
I wanted to update the group on the champagne glasses I made with clear glue, food coloring, and glitter. Pic #2 shows the result about 20 minutes after pouring around 2pm. By 10pm, the glitter had started to move down toward the bottom of the glass, and by the morning had sunk completely to the bottom, and the glue had not dried at all.
Queue my panic trip to Michael’s to buy clear epoxy resin. I learned that with resin you cannot use water-based coloring, so my food coloring could not be used. I had to buy a whole different dye kit specifically for resin, but it was worth it. Pic #1 shows the epoxy resin champagne. The color is not spot on like the glue version, but that’s ok because now the glitter will stay in place for years and the resin is already cured, so these can be saved and reused for other shows.
Just wanted to make sure folks reading this in the future know what to expect - glue champagne is much cheaper to make, and can be made ahead and put back in the jug (shake well before pouring to stir up the glitter and create air bubbles), but like real champagne it will be flat by morning. For longterm, stable champagne, use resin with resin-specific dyes.
I needed fake champagne glasses. This is clear glue with 1 drop of golden rod food coloring per 1 gallon and 2 tablespoons of fine gold glitter