I think when feeling powerless, stressed, or struggling, it matters to be working on a skill and an outlet and be seeing progress...being in nervehell remission for (??) months is saving my life lol. I can still do some things feeling like that, but not many, and it really sucks

The lighter is for scale. The main other thing my brain's been caught on is still wax seal stamps...I just think they're neat

Earlier progress pic, and Ribberta's girlfriend I've sewn, Croacus. I'm leveling up on the Pikachu in like a big jump here lol

I need to sleep, but when I'm human again I should link the site I got the pattern. There's a shitton of well-documented free patterns and tutorials to practice with

Ok I gave her tiny nostrils so you can tell a little better what this is supposed to be haha

It's absolutely useless knowledge and skills, based around a silly aesthetics and hoarder hobby that's gone to silly impracticality stretches using an obsolete material in an obsolete application.

So, like, my jam. I need to tidy and set up for photos and videos of the nonsense.

I need to get back to adding tree oils and experimenting with volatility range demanded for best results, because just a tiny trace improves elasticity and flow of waxes, and improves durability if it's not enough that it starts to undermine it instead.

Titanium white is also pretty easy. It's overall just like. Crayons, and/or pigments meant for resin art, chopped up hot glue, and leftover candle wax for serious. It's more durable and viscous the more hot glue is in the ratio.

Colors that are more opaque, darker, or most of all both are cheapest and easiest to make for me overall right now. Leftover candle wax is useful for stretching batches, and avoiding stringing-out over-viscous plastic texture, but tends to be quite opaque and dull shimmer.

I'm fumbling tart and tealight tins on this thing with pliers until I get at least a cheapo kit of the tools lol. Also need to up my stamp-making and stamp-hoarding game. And also need to start hoarding the waxes gradually/cheaply to learn to make more specific own-use knockoff recipes of lol

*Not seal stamps I mean. Lol