SRC Casting Studio

“I want to kiss you every minute, every hour, everyday”💋

I just came across these of the alginate mould we produced of my bump and partners hands. (What the mould looked like before and after being cast 🙈)

Another shot of a hand casting fresh out of the mould 🖐🏼

Bump casting (38 weeks)

Baby castings 🖐🏼👣

Baby casting kits are available to purchase on my SRC #etsy shop, so you can produce your own castings at home.

It’s such a lovely and fun experience making your own hand and feet castings of your little one. They are perfect little keepsakes that you can cherish forever, after all they grow up so fast! It’s nice having something physical to remember how little they once were, and also the memories of making them together.

My first pregnancy bump mould ☺️

This literally feels like yesterday! I remember panicking that I was leaving it to late in my pregnancy to take my (nearly full term) bump castings. I’m so glad I managed to take 4 different casts of my bump before my little one made an appearance at 40+5 weeks.

Today’s mission is to clean up my 40 week bump casting. I can’t believe I’ve put it off for nearly 9 months! (Photo of my bump casting straight out of the mould)

I’m literally so excited to display this casting in my renovated studio space 🤗

I will be adding the finishing touches to my at-home studio over the weekend so hopefully next week I can share some photos of the renovations 🤞🏼

Is this just me?

I’m not going to lie, I was so naive about how much time I would have to work around having a baby. I literally thought having a baby will be so easy, I will work when she naps (assuming all babies napped most of the time). Well my child doesn’t, don’t get me wrong, she sleeps well through the night but I just assumed all babies napped a lot through the day also 🙈

I had so many plans for my maternity leave. I was going to get everything up to date to be able to start fresh after my maternity leave. Eg. Update all my casting kit listings and instructions, create more casting kits, design a variety of promotional materials, completely renovate my studio, work on my own bump castings, finish off little casting ideas I’d started but never got around to finishing, photograph loads of castings and edit them all also.. the list goes on.

WELL, let’s just say that didn’t go to plan. I managed to take a variety of hand and foot castings of my little one every other month, I renovated my studio (plastered, painted, new tiles, all new furniture and deco etc), I also got half way through working on 3 of my pregnancy bump castings.. 9 WHOLE MONTHS OFF WORK AND THAT IS IT! 🙈🤣

Even though I planned to be productive throughout my maternity leave, I don’t regret spending all my time bonding with my baby. Everytime she fell asleep cuddled into me I would just embrace that moment, yes I had plenty of other things I should of been cracking on with (housework & work) but I just loved those snuggles. Motherhood is such an amazing experience and you seriously need to embrace every single moment you have with them.

Successful full term bump mould produced with the help of my family 🥰

Bump casting (38 weeks)

Bump casting process🤰🏼

My final bump casting produced 6 weeks ago🤰🏼

This casting was made 2 days before the arrival our my little girl - I’m so glad she decided to make a late appearance otherwise we never would of had the opportunity to make this gorgeous style casting. It really is something I will cherish forever 💗

SRC’s bump casting assistants 💁🏽‍♀️😂

I can’t believe it was 6 weeks ago that me and my family made a full term casting of my pregnancy bump.

Everyone meet:

Bump model - Me

Hand model - Partner

Casting assistant - My mother

Photographer - My niece Summer-Louise

Mirror holder - My niece Indie