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Seeing you work with clay is making me want to try! I've wanted to work with polymer clay for years but I was always so scared
Anyway, thank you for allowing us to see your progress! I can't wait to see the final result :)
nothing to be scared of, the clay is cheap and you'll be wasting nothing (it's only now that you're wasting time not having tried it) - go on, create, make mistakes and have fun!
I want to share as much of me (seemingly) failing as possible, because I feel like everyone I know struggles with perfectionism and overall a very bad/toxic mindset that social media taught us - everyone posting only their best work makes you think they surely never fail and therefore you suck. It teaches you mistakes are something very, very bad and makes you scared of even trying to make your own stuff, which is wrong on so many levels. Mistakes aren't good or bad, they're an essential part of the process you have to accept (and everyone makes them, no matter how experienced they are); you won't make mistakes only if you don't do anything, and we don't want that!
I learned to accept this a rather hard way - the shittier my life got the less serious I'd get (about myself, my art and running my socials) and failing at anything became a joke (ah man, I only have to remake it another 60 times and we'll be good!).
SO GUYS try not to take your art too seriously - everything can either be fixed, started over or remade as many times as you wish