I promise, this post is only partially personal. I'm actually going to try to talk about art again instead of rambling about myself forever and ever. But first, I want to share a little tidbit about my mentality. If you don't really care, feel free to skip this paragraph. You see, I was raised by two people who are "doers." My parents always have to have a goal, something to work on and keep them occupied. Me, I'm not a doer. I can be perfectly happy when I'm, as they put it, "wasting time." I like playing far more than I like working, and I believe that you need to have both in order to really live life. Now, that said, a non-doer being raised by two doers winds up with some problems. The biggest of these is guilt. I like to play and relax, but any time I do, I get a little parental voice in my head telling me that I'm wasting time and that I'm being lazy. Isn't that fun? And then when I actually accomplish something, my actual parental voices say something along the lines of "That's nice. Now what about all this other stuff you haven't done yet?" Also fun. So you see, Madame Curie's lovely little quote basically sums up my life. I have a very difficult time remembering what I've accomplished, and I never stop stressing over everything left on my to-do list.
Now, how does all that apply to polymer clay? Essentially, I went on that little rant because I have a ton of polymer clay pieces lying around my room at the moment, pretty but unfinished or waiting to be added to a piece of jewelry. For those of you who don't know anything about polymer clay, polyclay is a non-mineral clay that can be bought in a variety of colors and textures, molded into any shape, and then baked in a typical home oven. In other words, it's kind of like cookable Play-Doh for adults. Polyclay can be used for a variety of things, but it's especially useful for making jewelry. I personally make pendants and beads out of polymer clay, and I currently have a whole bunch of these pendants and beads lying around, waiting to be used.
Yay for crappy webcam shots. At least you can get the general idea. I have heart pendants, diamond drops, mokume-gane patterned shapes, random flowers, and a bunch of little round beads. And that's just the stuff that's already been baked. I also have a bunch of uncured canes lying around, and those are too fragile to move easily, so I can't just shove them in a box somewhere like these baked pieces. I'll go over my caning addiction some other time. But my point is, I have a whole bunch of unfinished stuff lying around here, and it's stressing me out. I'm currently rather exhausted (rough, stormy night last night), but that little parental voice in my head is frantically shouting, "Make something! Make something!" So, I guess I'll go obey it before my head explodes. Maybe I'll post the finished result later, and maybe it will even be shot with something better than my webcam. Miracles do happen.
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