slowly.......... slowly

i am doing the studio
bernie is concerned that i am not going fast enough
i am going as fast as i can right now
even working all day, i don't get a lot done because i am finding spaces for stuff as i go
and i am cleaning, destashing etc as i go

take yesterday,

as you all know i make original porcelain dolls, starting from a lump of clay, with a bunch of stuff inbetween that lump and the finished doll.
part of the process involves me making my own molds to pour the porcelain in
those molds are dusty
( oh BOY are they dusty)
and i found one that a mouse had been using for a pantry,
with MY cat food in there!
what a mess
so i am taking them outside
brushing them off with a soft brush inside and out then wrapping them in a cling sort of band
and moving them to another area
stacking them up carefully so i can get rid of their very nice wire shelf that they lived (and BREATHED ) on

i worked most of the day, intersparced with duck baths
supper
washing mini blinds
picking up cat puke
feeding and watering everyone
and breakfast for me which i remembered to eat around 2 pm

other then that i worked all day on the molds
i got half of two shelves cleared and a stack that was on my workbench
no not a lot
maybe 20 molds ( remember i make my own everything here, so 20 molds is just a bit of work, not the 2000 or so dollars it would be if i bought them)

i have maybe 100 more
givertake

now according to my hazy little plan that is sort of on paper and sort of in my befuddled head........
when the wire rack is out of the studio........ some sort of rolling ventilated shelf system will slide in and out of under the porcelain workbench
and now i am thinking............. maybe i don't have the space for it?

maybe it's time to give up porcelain as a medium and go to resin or 'cold cast' porcelain?

the molds for that are normally silicone

i think that maybe i can then do away with the upteen molds for one porcelain doll as i scuplt HUGE and then repeatedly cast, refine, fire, and SHRINK the dolls by making molds around the fired and refined bisque until they are the sizes i want
i like that i can refine them and resculpt them along the way, that helps a LOT
i like that i can sculpt HUGE and get all that detail in
and then shrink the detail down

i hate that i have about 6 molds of each doll head in 6 different sizes
i wouldn't mind if i had a seperate building or area for it
(and a seperate building or area for soap making as well)

keeping only 'clean' stuff in this studio
such as painting, drawing, design work.........sewing
stuff like that

really the dolls and other parts of my small businesses have outgrown the studio space
some stuff i can let go
but a lot i can't

i don't know what to do about it all

i know we have plenty of land to put outbuilding, but with the criminal neighbors next door, i worry about theft and vandalism
as i don't think they've reformed any
and they've been guilty ( and on TV) for theft and vandalism before.........

anyway
this is where i am at this morning
but i keep plugging away

today after i wash two more mini blinds
i am going to do more of the molds

then i think i am going to take my fabrics out on the deck to sort
btw
the hoses to the washer broke during the week
so today bernie is going to fix that
good thing too
as i have found a mouse got into my fabric stash

and we paid a mouse exterminator for 6 YEARS to come quarterly to get the mice
i think it was a waste
don't you?

you just have to love antique stone houses in the woods

vi