OOAK Fairy Disaster Gosh I am Soooo Sad

Hi out there, I am out there diligently working on my next doll/egg project. Or at least I was.


I sculpted a little toddler doll, she was to be a little fairy. Her face was soooo adorable, I kept telling myself to take pictures but kept putting it off.


Some ball of something got on the dial of my convection oven and I adjusted the temperature to that little ball of shmootz.


My little girl burned at a whopping 450 degrees.


I can't get over my sadness. I melted down pretty well myself. I haven't shed that many tears in a long time.


Everybody said "oh my gosh. all that work!"


I could care less about the work. To me it is all needed practice any way.


It is the loss of that little face that cheered me up, even when it was on a wooden stick, the little tiny dimpled hands that were to hold her little swan. The great big blue realistic eyes that looked up with so much hope.


Usually when I make a mistake I want to get going right away and "get back on that horse". Yesterday I sculpted two fine little blue eyed babies' faces.


But neither of them are my little Lily.



So I have decided to abandon the project and mourn her loss. Thanks to my laziness, I have no pictures of this little darling. Only charred remains.


Tomorrow I will start on something else. Today I just want to rest.




I will never make that mistake again.

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I really like this picture so I had to add it. Cheers!

OOAK Mermaids, Egg Art, and Other Musings

Alas I am calling my mermaid and egg sculpture (no name yet) and my Ankie Daanen Dingle Dangle Doll finished. I am glad to do this as my head is swimming with new ideas, my work space is tidy and ready to accept another torrent of clay, beads, glitter, crystals, ribbons, and more…and my tassel web site calls out continuously for help. I had said that I was apprehensive about my web host company submitting my web sites to the search engines while they lay dormant through this latest storm of mad creativity, but off they went, and that is OK too. As I noted, when my tech savvy son gets here in hmmm how many days, weeks, hours…who’s counting? I will put him to work filming, editing and posting my video tutorials for making gorgeous tassels! I don’t see these little furry creatures (the tassels, not my children) as window decorations…I see them as an opportunity to display art and creativity and sculpture all in wonderfully creative ways. I have taught tassel making for many years and hope that this web site will spread the word about them and make them doable and attainable. For now, I am posting my pictures of my recent works. I am always sad with respect to how the two dimensional world of photography robs so much work of its depth. I love things that sparkle and shine…and I just have never been to able to capture that well on film. It will be even more of a challenge with tassels, which are tactile, feel me pieces of art that renders cameras useless. However, it is the best we have, and will suffice for now.

Cheers!