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IMPRESSIONS BY CATHERINE
IMPRESSIONS BY CATHERINE
 
Our process starts by taking an impression of your childs hands or feet. This process is completely painless, and most babies even fall asleep while we do this. To start, your childs hand is placed in a soft, liquidy material, similar to what dentists use to make molds of your teeth, and can play and move their hand or feet freely until a
soft, rubber like mold sets. However your child was holding his or her hand, is how the impression will look. So if your child likes to tuck his thumb in, most likely thats what he will be doing while the mold is setting. After about 30 seconds, your childs hand is easily removed and comes out almost completely clean.
Here is what the mold looks like immediately after your baby's hand is removed.
Here is a close up of that same mold. You can easily see the indentions and the finger grooves that the mold is able to pick up.
Now this is where my hand-crafting and skill comes in. Each mold is unique and can only be used once. We pour a stone like material into the mold, and after that sets, we peel away the mold thus making it impossible to reuse. I then craft and perfect the impression.

Every impression is hand crafted, and carefully worked on. I treat these impressions as if they were my own children's and strive to make them as beautiful as possible. Every impression is unique, such as every baby is unique. No two impressions are exactly alike, and most parents say that they can really see the personality of their baby in the impressions.

Each Impression is:

-Mounted on solid, high quality pure oak plaques

-Engraved with your baby's name and birthday (or date of impression) on a brass plate

-Polished to a high gloss finish and

-Individually hand-crafted and perfected.