14th of July - My 28th Heart

This is a heart I've been meaning to do for a while. An ice heart. Originally the idea was to fill up a water balloon and tie it up with a rubber band to get the indentation for the top. This did not work. The rubber bands kept slipping and falling off. So I decided I would just freeze the whole balloon and then melt it into a heart shape. I tried that, but it took forever, so I gave up on that too. So the final result is achieved by melting with a lighter, matches and chipping away at it with a steak knife:

Yes, this is my fabulous ironing board as the surface. ^^ And here it is with flash: