It's Been A Bit~

 

As some of you know,

I have taken a bit of a break

over the Holidays.

It was hard to 

pull myself back to work...

More on that, farther down~ 

but first a wee announcement.

This Sunday, 

January 17th, at 8pm EST

I will have a couple 

Salem Hags here

for adoption.

So...the big question is,

why???

What's up?

Well...you see,

 I self challenge myself

every year.

this way, I feel that I grow

and reach the goals that I want.

I have been working on 

 face skills for a couple years now, 

for they have always been

the bane of my existence.

Simply...I want more realism. 

I also want a different method of armature.

I found exactly what I have been looking for

from my fellow Bewitching Peddler,

Karen Baker.

It was an online class through

a site called Curious Mondo.

Check it out! (Google will get you there)

There is so much and you can register to watch classes for free as they tape them!

This time of year can be perfect for doing projects or learning something new.

We can always learn something in a class!

 My class used Polymer Clay.

a whole different animal,

 from my beloved Paperclay.

I tried it years ago

and was not captured by it.

It is very soft, waxy and oily looking.

I knew enough to trust in the process, 

and her methods.

OH MY GOODNESS!!!

Success!

 

Check out those wrinkles!

The next step was trying to

 do that in Paperclay.

Well, that was what I set out to do 

for this month's Early Work Mercantile

offerings.

But, I did not realize

how difficult would be

to put everything forward with my Hags;

to strike a balance of more realism

and wonky, old worldish.

So, simply put;

time got away from me ~~~

but on the other hand,

a green pumpkin for September 

was cool!