Juicy Couture had done some elaborate jewelry packaging some years back. One had a sculpted bust of a woman from the 18th century meant to put a necklace on and then she was inside a plastic bell jar or done. Their was a different statute under a similar jar that was used for earrings. So a friend was somewhere and they had 3 of these that had been damaged that they where tossing and she nabbed them for us. We took 2 that where the same size to use as the translucent half for each of our two capsules.For inside the clear dome I wanted little pellets of medication like you sometimes see but couldn't find gumballs or any other round candy. What we had that was perfect where some paint balls. They were in these plastic tubes that had flip lids and could be attached to a belt. We bought them at a goodwill for the containers which I fill with nails or screws. But hoarders that we can sometimes be we still had a tube of these that still hap paint balls in it. There weren't enough to just fill each capsule so I used a paper towel type cardboard tube and stuck a ball pit pall on the end (doesn't everyone keep a trash bag of ball pit balls on hand just in case they are needed?). I painted that and glued the paint balls on that and put this inside the dome.
Finally the other side of my capsules I made by doing something similar to the base I made with the tube and ball pit ball only larger. Then to make it smooth and uniform I did a coat of joint compound which I was then able to sand down. It still wasn't quite right but I didn't want to make it heavy with more joint compound so I took some leftover air dry clay Jay made some months ago that we had a little bit of leftover after the project he mixed it for. That clay was made with school glue as the main base. That left my capsule with a nice smooth look. Blue paint and 2 layers of acrylic clear coat enamel spray and I was done.
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