So, as a gift for my boyfriend for our anniversary I thought it would be fun to make him something that we could both use around the house (this is in addition to our joint present to each other - which turned out to be skydiving! But that's another story...). My great plan was to make coasters. And since he has great plans of traveling to foreign lands I thought it would be fun to make MAP coasters. Now the concept seemed easy enough to me. Buy wood, cut out maps, glue maps to wood, then shellac to my hearts content! I have never used shellac before so this was an entirely new concept to me.
I had two different maps to choose from, the first was Europe:
The second was Central and South America:
Overall I think they turned out fine and they were a lot of fun to make (shellac is pretty awesome stuff to work with).
*Note for all potential shellac-ers out there...you need to elevate your shellacking surface so that when you pour the shellac it easily drips off the sides, thus coating your entire surface. With these coasters I made the mistake of simply placing them on popsicle sticks, which made the separation of the final product and said popsicle stick very...entertaining...
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