Friday, December 02, 2005

Steve Polychronopolous

Well hello! how's it going? Me, goooooooood.
Sorry about not writing so much this week - I only have two more weeks left of school - so I've been doing a bunch on homework lately. Can you believe that this semeseter is almost over!? It's crazy how fast time flies. It seems like I was just buying my books!
This week was very snow filled. I made Trav drive everywhere because it makes me nervous to drive in the snow. I usually drive because I love driving - but I just can't do the snow.

I woke up this morning with a HUGE scratch on my chest - it's like 6 inches long and bright red - now it's starting to itch. No idea where it's from.

The night it started snowing out really bad - I think it was Wednesday. Trav and I went to Best Buy and picked up the new Darkness CD - it kicks arse (that's Brittish for "ass")! Love it!
Then we went to Micheal's to pick up some polymer clay for me - I got a block of plain white polymer - just becuase I have never worked with it before - so I wanted sort of a blank canvas.
I have always loved ceramics - I took it for three years in high school and have always wanted to get back into it. I checked around for classes and/or studios in the area - I found some but they are really expensive to get into - it was like $150 a month for clay, 24-hour access to studio space, and lounge with a couch and TV, a certain amount of space in the giant kiln, and a locked cupboard or drawer to keep your crap in. It's just too much for me to spend for the little time I have to spend there - it would be worth the $ if I wasn't going to school because then I could spend more of my time there. SO - next best thing = polymer clay.
I was watching HGTV over the long weekend and this lady was making santas out of polymer clay. I learned that you can bake it in your own oven at home! PERFECT!
and It stays soft until you bake it - no muddy mess of keeping the clay wet!
So I wanted to start working with it once we got the craft room set up - which we are doing tonight - but I couldn't wait. So I took a small peice off - it's packaged in a box - and it's set like twizzler's pull and peel - only square. So peeled one tubeular shaped peice off and started playing with it - just too see what it was like and how different it was from the clay I was used to.
Well I ended up staying up until midnight playing with it - I made a head and face of a little tiny guy. I added more features on last night as well as hair - Trav tried to test me to see if I could make him have short curly hair - and I did.
I think he looks great - and so does Trav - he's proud of me.
I named him Steve Polychronopolous - get it - polymer clay - polychronopolous? Well I thought it was cute. I'm sure all you Adam Sandler fans will too :)
I will post a picture of him tonight if I have time - I really want to show you guys - I like him a lot. I hate to toot my own horn - but I think Im pretty good with this stuff.

Ok - I'm going home now, this is the first Friday in a long time that I don't have a bunch of running around to do before I go home - I can just go straight home. That's so nice.
But then at home - I have to clean the tub and rearrange furniture.

Fun.
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