It’s a UV resin I’m trying to use to create my own polymer clay eyes for art dolls. I’ll post some photos when I’m thru- I need a nice sunny and not-too-windy day! And I won’t have any this week, I’m going to Boston.

Finding time  is sometimes the hardest part. I just created a new line of fairy and Mucha pendants, and little fairies sitting on moons, and realized- coming up with the ideas is the funnest part. Executing them is the boringest part. Especially when you are making things to sell. Sometimes I make things with the intent to sell them, but realizing that although making things is loads of fun and I’m good at it, making one after the other is so un-fun. It’s realizing that my talent is paying bills, and that other people want to buy what I’m making, that helps me to push through the boring parts and get to the fun parts- photography, listing, and selling! And, meeting the folks who buy my work. That’s the really fun part.

Wow, I made many many stars this year. Ornaments and lapel pins for my coworkers and friends. Here they are, drying after baking. I decided to trim them with glitter glue, and the stupid child-proof bars on my studio windows came in handy, just this once!

Polymer Clay stars

I found Artella a couple of years ago when I first became really interested in studying my, and other people’s, creativity from the point of view of figuring out why people who are creative are sometimes more depressed, or angst filled, than other people. For instance, most of my family, including my father and siblings, are pretty basic people. They are intelligent and successful, but not driven to create art, like I am. So I often don’t understand them, and envy them. I wish I could go home and night and watch tv, be content, and go to bed. But I can’t. I’m constantly making or doing something and I feel incredibly restless if I’m not making..or doing. I have a need for an extra room in my home- an art studio. They are simply content with a living room. I need MEANING in my life and work, they don’t seem to struggle with that as much as I do. Then one morning, I read an article in Artella’s Daily Muse-paper, about how eccentricity and creativity often go hand in hand. And a lot of things clicked for me.

Artella is a fun place, with many, many resources for creative thinkers. You should check it out. There’s a lot to find, so be sure to spend a little time on the home page finding where things are.