Sometimes you just have to plod

I don't think I've blogged about this, but I hit a wall with my crafts a while ago and just stood there staring up at that wall for a while(and occasionally banging uselessly into it over and over like one of those malfunctioning androids you see in a lot of sci-fi)

I have ideas, but invariably my fingers will refuse to cooperate, or the clay/glass/wire start doing things I don't want them to (on a side note, I've lost count of the number of times I jabbed myself while trying to cut and manipulate 1.25mm copper wire. I have a lot of respect for proper wire-workers *G*)

So I'm just plodding: making tiny plain lampwork spacers in the hope that the practice will benefit me in the end; clearing out my clay table; mixing polymer clay colours.

Anyway, in the spirit of clearing my head, I'll be posting some polymer clay work I've been doing over the last few months that have been hidden away in my bead tins. They're variable in quality and concept; I've been thinking, 'I'll just perfect that, and then I can use it in jewellery' but I can't seem to get past doing more that prototypes.

I don't know about anyone else, but sometimes I hold so tightly to something that it begins to almost suffocate me and being stilted in that way is anathema to getting work done.

I have more to purge :D

I've also come face to face with synchronicity in ideas - I purposefully avoided reading about carving when I was making my own take on carved beads, but I've just now come across the same idea, documented, I would guess, about 10 years ago. I've never looked into carving except for a few comments people have made about lino cutters (which are apparently scary tools, prone to slipping, and with a tendency to gouge more than just clay.) And I guess the reason I didn't look into it is precisely because it's a pretty simple idea, and I didn't want to know that it was already in use. No harm done, I never thought about claiming it as My Very Own Special Technique (who would want it, for one thing?), but it's always funny to see this happen...especially when you're apparently a decade or two behind everyone else *G*