The first step in this process, was to start forming my silicon mold. I started this process by putting white clay around half of my clay umbrella handle from the previous project. Then I built a box without a top around the clay and my handle using foam core. Once this step was complete, I made indents in the white clay and poured silicon into it after removing the air bubbles. 

Once I had one half of my silicon mold, I removed the foam core, white clay, and my original model. I also removed all the white clay from my model. Then I remade a box without a top out of foam core, and poured the other half of my silicon mold around my original model.