A disastrous or rapidly developing situation likened to the melting of a
nuclear reactor core
or in my case
An emotional breakdown
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What's on my desk?
A confession of death and destruction....
melodrama and woe....
::sigh::
( brave face )
....Happy WOYWW!
I'm not even sure if anyone remembers the Mermaid Altered Book I had diligently been working on through Elizabeth's class over at Altered Book Lover. I had been having problems since the very first lesson, which was finding a sewn book. My eyesight isn't the best and I thought I had found one but I had not; I discovered after a few lessons. I never complained and mustered on but I have been having pages crack and separate from day 1. So my meltdown had been slowly but surely evolving.
So here we go...I got to Lesson 10, was having fun, cutting images from magazines that were not mermaids and making them into a pretty swanky art deco mermaid lounging on the sea floor and was trying to figure out the next step which was making a frame, while playing with gesso, dropping alcohol inks...
Discovered the alcohol inks had seeped through to the next page....
::held breath while I had a whole 30 seconds of panic asking myself...
did it seep through the previous page? ::
I was afraid to look!
OH MY GOD.................NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...................It had.
I had ruined one of my "most hard to complete" pages.
I was devastated. I was pissed.
MAJOR meltdown occurred.
I took my exacto knife out and cut out every page.
So now I have this, which remains of my temper tantrum:
Which I stuffed back into my book like so:
and propped my fan on it like this....which is where it has sat for the last month.
Now what?...I lay the future of my book at your feet.
::hangs head and skulks off::
