(total time today working on actual bowls: 4 hours)
This was a rough day in the studio. I may have learned something. I might even be close to finishing this piece to my satisfaction. Maybe not. It was one of those days when I often felt upset for no discernable reason - very little patience or optimism. Yet I didn't want to quit. Just kept on.
It's strange that the studio time was so unhappy because I woke thinking of the work with pleasure. And went to bed last night anticipating a good time in the studio. Don't know how all this good feeling disappeared.
Maybe it was when I got way into making new thinner wire models. I did come up with two backup plans - Plan B and Plan C - that will work pretty well and that might be ideas for later bowls if Plan A does work out. But I think I felt angry that I was spending time on Plans B and C - which felt like starting all over from scratch. Instead of making me feel more secure, it seems to have just made me mad and upset. So why did I keep on doing it? Another mystery....
I did spend the last 2 out of the 4 hours working again on Plan A. As I say, the piece I'm working on might "fall into place" beautifully tomorrow...or the next day...or it might not. I ended the session writing out how I want to feel as I work on it. And it looks good where I left off.
7:10:24 PM 
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