I’ve had a long week of polymer clay tool designing. Ever since I launched the polymer clay digital tool shop, the rest & relaxation I thought was coming has not yet arrived. I am still working long days designing new items, coming up with new product lines, and double checking things already put in place to make sure they work correctly.
Last night I needed a break from that. I sat in front of my laptop and thought… I can’t. I can’t take one more second of screens and hard thinking. So I retired to the bedroom with my clay color mixing kit and figured I would work on some new color blends. That’s artistic and I don’t have to sit in front of a screen to do it. I figured I’d be productive doing that.
Well, true to my usual overthinking self I turned that into a not so enjoyable session. Ugh! I obsessed over the ratios and I ended up mixing one single color over… and over… and over again. I’m still not happy with it a day later! So I scratched that and decided to do something different instead. I figured looking at polymer clay books online would be fun. And I’d possibly shop for some. Who am I kidding? Change that to definitely!
But knowing that I have previously purchased books which I already had in my library, I decided to just fill the cart and check my library this morning to ensure none were in it already. And guess what? A few of the books I had in my shopping cart were already there. I forgot I purchased them. Ooops. 🤣
The picture shows my current polymer clay books collection. If you have a sharp eye you will notice that two of them are different publications of the same book. I laughed out loud when I saw that. So I will be removing the dupe and making room for different books.
Mind you, this is only the polymer clay ones. And several aren’t shown here as they’re by my workbench. I have many interests and most have instructional books to go with them. I would say the sewing and quilting collection has a lot more books than my polymer clay collection. But the polymer clay collection is of a good size. And if I get my way this weekend it will become even bigger. LOL There are just so many wonderful books out there from creative and generous artists sharing their techniques and tips. They inspire us to continue our own journey. I must look!
Some of these books I refer to a lot. Others I only opened when they arrived and put them on the shelf, promising to give them more time later. But life gets busy and the time never comes.
If someone asked me which book I would keep if a gun were held to my head and I was told I could choose only one, I would not be able to decide quickly. I could probably whittle it down to 5 favorites if I had to, but it wouldn’t be easy. Getting it down to just one? The thought causes undue angst. I think I’ll stop that senseless experiment.
I’ll start working on that whittling. I’ll report back in a future post which 5 made the list. Do you have a favorite polymer clay book? Or is that an unfair question? Feel free to list more if that’s easier! 😁
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