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I want to go over the list of things that work as glazing on polyclay, and see what else I have in the house that could work because I am kind of sick of sticking my fingers to the tiny things... I tried to glaze the gray fimo rabbit Alice made for me yesterday and first i had to unjam the nozzle which then spilled superglue onto the pad (but not the computer - did that once, not going THERE again), and dribbled all over the bun, and stuck my left forefinger and thumb to the bun, so I finished dripping glue over it, while it was not going anywhere - in the same theory as a vise? however in unsticking my fingers managed to throw it on the floor and then I picked it up and it was covered with glued on dust and threads and also fingerprints (and me again), so I buffed off a lot of it, and only made small gouges in the surface of the bun (because Dremel tool) and then added more superglue and more of it stuck to the fingers on the other hand and glued me to the glue tube and I eventually got loose and placed the bun on something proven not to stick to superglue (gasp! such a thing exists, and a good thing too - it is the wrapper of some very very fancy chocolate, and I kept it cause it had a nice pattern but when I tried to glue it to the pad it just kept peeling up and leaving a super smooth surface underneath, so I have a new tool rather than a new decoration? which is fine. I'll figure out how to transfer the decoration to something else later on) so I had three fingers and two thumbs all attached to things that they should not have been attached to and the bun sitting on the chocolate wrapper with some non-glazed bits and I am now down what seems like it should be half a tube of superglue but likely is not that much, and I should find something else that seals the surface without making the clay sticky or nasty over time. yeah.
I want to go over the list of things that work as glazing on polyclay, and see what else I have in the house that could work because I am kind of sick of sticking my fingers to the tiny things... I tried to glaze the gray fimo rabbit Alice made for me yesterday and first i had to unjam the nozzle which then spilled superglue onto the pad (but not the computer - did that once, not going THERE again), and dribbled all over the bun, and stuck my left forefinger and thumb to the bun, so I finished dripping glue over it, while it was not going anywhere - in the same theory as a vise? however in unsticking my fingers managed to throw it on the floor and then I picked it up and it was covered with glued on dust and threads and also fingerprints (and me again), so I buffed off a lot of it, and only made small gouges in the surface of the bun (because Dremel tool) and then added more superglue and more of it stuck to the fingers on the other hand and glued me to the glue tube and I eventually got loose and placed the bun on something proven not to stick to superglue (gasp! such a thing exists, and a good thing too - it is the wrapper of some very very fancy chocolate, and I kept it cause it had a nice pattern but when I tried to glue it to the pad it just kept peeling up and leaving a super smooth surface underneath, so I have a new tool rather than a new decoration? which is fine. I'll figure out how to transfer the decoration to something else later on) so I had three fingers and two thumbs all attached to things that they should not have been attached to and the bun sitting on the chocolate wrapper with some non-glazed bits and I am now down what seems like it should be half a tube of superglue but likely is not that much, and I should find something else that seals the surface without making the clay sticky or nasty over time. yeah.
I do wonder what makes some days so much better than others.
Yesterday was bad enough that I took a 2 hour nap in the afternoon, nearly missed the Saturday Dinner zoom gathering, was stressed enough or mad enough or upset enough that rum with tonic sounded like a good idea, and I stayed up past 1 am which is pretty late for me.
Today, even with a migraine at 5 am (thanks demon rum) I was so much more grounded - I managed to get out to the shop and built a strange little loom thing out of pieces of a laser cut loom that I had saved because they were sturdy but hadn't used as a loom because they were very off center in the cutting out department. I made tools go in the shop that reminded me of my father without feeling pained about him losing his memory. I built the thing out of what was available. I brought it in the house and wove a thing on it and then figured out a better way to do it to produce the thing I was most wanting to make (little four selvedge tapestries, it is a temporary obsession, I hope).
Part of it was making something, I'm certain. Except I did the making of things yesterday as well - the daily piece, some guitarlele practice, some thinking about how to sell the tiny art online. Maybe fretting over sales was the problem. That has enough small moving pieces to make anyone mad, and all the most elegant ways to sell things also cost money, which means a level of sales to support the selling platform.... ok maybe thinking about did ruin yesterday. Or at least put a crimp in my thinking. I hate talking about ruining things, especially something as large as a day.
Yesterday was bad enough that I took a 2 hour nap in the afternoon, nearly missed the Saturday Dinner zoom gathering, was stressed enough or mad enough or upset enough that rum with tonic sounded like a good idea, and I stayed up past 1 am which is pretty late for me.
Today, even with a migraine at 5 am (thanks demon rum) I was so much more grounded - I managed to get out to the shop and built a strange little loom thing out of pieces of a laser cut loom that I had saved because they were sturdy but hadn't used as a loom because they were very off center in the cutting out department. I made tools go in the shop that reminded me of my father without feeling pained about him losing his memory. I built the thing out of what was available. I brought it in the house and wove a thing on it and then figured out a better way to do it to produce the thing I was most wanting to make (little four selvedge tapestries, it is a temporary obsession, I hope).
Part of it was making something, I'm certain. Except I did the making of things yesterday as well - the daily piece, some guitarlele practice, some thinking about how to sell the tiny art online. Maybe fretting over sales was the problem. That has enough small moving pieces to make anyone mad, and all the most elegant ways to sell things also cost money, which means a level of sales to support the selling platform.... ok maybe thinking about did ruin yesterday. Or at least put a crimp in my thinking. I hate talking about ruining things, especially something as large as a day.
