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The Nothing Post

 The brain is amazing...sometimes too amazing for its own good. There were several weeks where I was insanely inspired and couldn't sit still for all the costume planning I wanted to do. Then the past two weeks, BOOM, nothing. Emotions man. 



However, despite feeling uninspired and unmotivated, I'm still working on things, but in odd chunks. 

I cut the fabric for my costume, which has become a chore lately due to the fact that I don't have a lot of real estate in my apartment to wrangle yards of fabric. Also, it hurts my back now. 

For Goro, I made a mold based on the claws I sculpted. I tried it out last night but I made an unfortunate error. 

See, I got resin tint that I thought was opaque pre-mixed resin (because I also had some of that) so I filled the mold with dye instead of resin, sat it under the uv lamp and realized dang...I've stained the mold. I made some test casts after that and realized how tricky the shape is. You have to fill it in a very specific way. Most of my claws are missing the tip which is where the resin likes to make a bubble apparently. I'm getting there!

I also made some gold shank buttons because I have in my head the desire to re-do the Demon Slayer Uniform sweater. This time, use worsted weight yarn and buttons. I couldn't find gold or silver domed buttons, so I made some gold cabochons with uv resin and gold mica powder. I've had lot of ideas about these buttons weirdly enough, but that's kind of a distraction from current projects. It's back-burnered. 

Oh, I made the wind chime out of casting resin like I wanted but it's still unpainted. I have supplies to make more but it's like I bought these things just as the madness left. 

However, even though it's clear I have done things, it feels like I have done nothing. 

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