Trying to ignore...

I'm trying to ignore the things 

my thoughts are telling me.

Things like "You're useless.."

"You can't do anything right..."

and

 "WHY are you even DOING this??"

Arrgh!!

So not feeling very good today.

Just Pushing Through, so to speak

Here's what I did today...

 The paper mache mask I made

 yesterday was dry this morning

 ...so I gave it a few coats of white paint

Of course, it showed up all the imperfections

which started off my downward thought spiral

 

I made a start of the second mask

and enjoyed the hands-on tactile process.

 While that was put aside for drying..

I thought I'd work on the painted hessian.

As you can see above I made a 

BOTCH-UP with my painting...duh!

 So I had to paint over the centre green area.

Oh...my paper arrived the other day!

This is the flax paper 

I made on campus with Sue Blumskey

I am really happy with it and eventually want to use

handmade paper for my soap labels. Unfortunately,

 the coarse stuff doesn't run though the printer 

terribly well and I need to say what my soaps are etc

I have thought about stamping on lettering

 and have a leaflet that explains the herbal properties

but I'm not sure. I'm still working on this idea...

Time: 5 hours (Saturday 4 May)

Mask-making, Painting on hessian, 

handmade paper,where I'm at, photo editing