Way to Stat a Blog.

I tried to write a blog last year. That turned out to be an epic fail. So here I am starting round two of blog attempts with great news! Last year, my first time sculpting-EVER!- I made this adorable statue of a cyclops girl. I had no idea what I was doing so I just started playing around with the clay I was using in my ceramics class. I began making the form for my cyclops girl-something I had been drawing since I was fifteen. I had such a bad time making this sculpture. I dropped it. Stepped on it. Broke it. Carved too deeply in it creating holes. But through thick and thin, when she was completed...I fell completely in love.

In July I entered her into the tapestry contest at the L.A County Fair. That day was awful in itself. I got lost trying to find a way into the fair grounds; and ended up walking around for two hours in the scorching heat. The bus broke down three times on my way home. I was almost late for work; It was also the night of the Harry Potter midnight show (I work at a movie theatre and it was insanely busy) And my cat began to die. But Everything worked out in the end. Except my poor cat-Jango Fett-did die the next morning.

I went to the fair this past sunday with my family. And to my amazement when I saw my little cyclops girl statue in the display case...I saw I had a second place ribbon sitting right underneath her. I was so happy. I have never won anything in my life. Now I have. So I'm completely ecstatic.

I guess my ceramics professor Mr. Hillman was right: The more trouble you have with a piece of art, the more it becomes your faveorite. Still considering making replicas and selling them on my etsy shop. hmmmm....I think I'm going to sculpt her boyfriend next.