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We're going to an art show at a local winery today and I'm really looking forward to that. It's one of our favorite local vineyards so we're extra fortunate that it's also the closest. I have been sculpting and casting all week, pushing myself to learn and keep working so I get into a rhythm of each step as well as learn sculpting techniques. Symmetry, symmetry, symmetry. It's a pain in the ass!

We'll be receiving a delivery of seven cubic yards of compost on Monday.

Seven.

I know I'm being dramatic but all of that has to get shoveled into wheelbarrows and then dumped, load by load, where it belongs. My shoulder is almost healed. SO CLOSE! It's on me to figure out how to do this without messing it up all over again. At least I have a couple of days.

Fingers crossed!

Okay, using the dremel on resin casts is fun, fun and insanely messy. I need to find a spot where I can raise a lot of dust but clean it up easily and now it has come to this for the only place I can think of is the garage.... And the garage is my husband's workspace. We've joked about me taking over different areas of the house but now this? This will require negotiations and preemptive peace talks (Ok not really).

I think if I set up a temporary table and no chair it won't pose a significant threat. Perhaps a folding table, and I just stand? I can think of the perfect spot now that some of the garden equipment is out of the way.

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CuRsEdToDaRkNeSs
18:58 Apr 24 2025

Perhaps some peace offering brownies? lol. My yarn takes over the house and you can be sure I hear about it. lol! It's so hard to walk down a yarn aisle and see a pretty skein and not need it! I know that one day it will be something wonderful! I know as a fellow crafter you understand, sometimes things just jump out at you! lol.

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tr1n1ty01
20:35 Apr 24 2025

At my old house we had an art/hobby room. My hubs made me a dust collector with a tote and put a hole in it and the shop vac hose through it. When I was sanding or using my Dremmel I would kick the vac on and get busy.

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Morrigon
20:56 Apr 25 2025

I definitely need to get a dust collection system going!

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The danger of frost seems over which means the planting can truly begin and every day feels like a gift. Winter is finished for now! Our pup kept us active throughout winter since the cold barely seems to affect him so every day we would suit up and take him for walks. That's a nice perspective to have, your own neighborhood day after day throughout the entire year.

I want to get back into posting creative projects here. I am sculpting and casting now, two skills I've always wanted to develop and I want to document what I've been learning.

Have a good day or at the very least, have the day you deserve!

Years ago I bought some medium NSP Plasteline clay. Frankly I bought the cheapest I could because it's all I could afford at the time. Having not previously worked with that clay I figured "Wow, this stuff is difficult but that's just the nature of the beast." I would heat it up and it would either be molten or would cool off immediately, making for a start-stop workflow, which I feel messes with creative flow. I dealt with it for a while and the difficulty of working with it actually turned me off from sculpting for a while.

Just recently I bought actual legitimate "Monster Clay". Medium grade, again, and I lucked by getting it on sale. Still, it's a few dollars more than the older clay I bought but still...

Holy shit.

It's like I've been driving a Yugo for years and suddenly I get behind the wheel of a Mercedes. I worked on blocking out a design last night and was oooh'ing and ahhh'ing the whole time. It has elasticity, it melts but doesn't become like wet clay coating my hand, and it HOLDS warmth so I don't have to yo-yo with my temperatures to keep it workable. Sometimes you just cannot beat the legitimate thing!