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May 01, 2008
Making mud pies
So, I found some funny emotion cartoons that I'll be using to help get my mood across to ya'll...the first one up - Disgusted...yuck...why? Well, I managed to pull out all my new tools and trinkets last night and made a small fistful of beads, most of which came out looking like MUD...ugh...but isn't that what I expected..pretty much..still, you put pretty beads into a kiln, and hope they don't get hammered by the kiln gremlins...and yet you know they will...and sure enough, this morning, everything pretty much turned to yuck...yes, I was playing with the organics, and yes, I was doing stuff i don't normally do, and yes, i am still refining the process (testing what does and doesn't work)...there is a pleasure to playing at the torch, that's when you're actually MAKING the beads...and then there's the reality that wakes you up the next morning when the beads come outta the kiln and aren't anything like you thought they'd be...
I was actually excited when i went to bed last night because I was looking forward to what I had made...I don't go to the kiln each morning with that same enthusiasm, because when i work in the colors I usually work in, what i take out of the kiln looks pretty much like what I put in...so its not a great surprise..(although I am happy that the results are pretty beads, it just isn't a surprise)...
However, I am not letting this little mishap deter me...I am going to play again today...and possibly make mud, but hopefully will learn and try new things today and see what tomorrow brings...I do have some decent beads from yesterday, but only about 6 of the 12 beads are what I will use...the others will feed the bad bead jar...and that's ok, it needs to be fed from time to time..its like Julie Wong said - ya gotta make some uglibeads to get to the pretty ones...no kidding...I wish she was still making beads...
I like these little cartoons, they look like something I'd draw myself...when I was younger, I used to buy all sorts of drawing and cartoon books, hoping to be able to do something with it...I don't have a funny scenario tho, like Dilbert in an office, or silly cats (how many silly cat cartoons are there?)...so i like to just draw simple figures with funny expressions...I used to do it all the time, and back in the day when I was working in the tiny Mac SE, I would draw pictures that we used for our email program..it used to be you could actually design the email form you wanted to send...i could make the subject line at the bottom of the screen, put a big pic on the left side and the text message on the right...I could choose the fonts, and customize it however I wanted to...I used to draw all sorts of cool stuff for that, and I saved the disks, but never could recover the data properly..and now I think its all gone...oh well...maybe I'll get a pen-pad for this Mac and draw again...
Posted by Donner at May 1, 2008 10:22 AM
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that cartoon has a mullet ;)
Posted by: Coleen at May 1, 2008 01:45 PM
I HATE it when my beads come out looking like crap when I had expected them to turn out awesome. Maybe you should make a few beads you know will turn out and then experiment. That way at least some of the beads will be pretty right?!
Much love,
Genea
Posted by: Genea at May 1, 2008 04:46 PM