The ugly ones

 It's like this - sometimes I make stuff I don't even like. 😬

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These, for instance. Sometimes I try a thing and the thing fails. Sculpey sent some tiny clay cutters to me as a bonus, and I thought, "They are too small for me to make post earrings with them, so maybe I use them to cut out a design in a bigger piece of clay".  Do you see a bird, a dinosaur, something else? Yeah, that's the problem. It's supposed to be a bird.

Then there are these beauties. I used a color that I wouldn't use for a flower, much less a rose. 

I uses flower mold like one of these:

The good news was that I did a decent job using the mold to make the flower. 

I like blue, but not this blue.   ::shudder::

Then there is this disaster:

I mixed the clay colors, used a cutter for the shape, baked the clay, and then it broke when I was trying to add a brush-on sealant to it.  

Now that makes me mad and breaking finished earrings almost made me pack up all my clay and give up. 😖

This pair below is the coup de grâce of ugly earrings. My translucent clay turned the color of snot.

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The moral to my story is that sometimes with art you need to try something new. It may make you uncomfortable, and it may be ugly, and it may break, and it may not satisfy you. The idea is to keep trying things and keep learning new techniques until you are satisfied.

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