Spite 3.0

I hadn't wanted to show Spite until I was sure she was going to stick around this time.  It might seem like magic that here I showed her off after just starting to sculpt her last week and now she is off to be put into a mold.

But actually this is the third time I have started her and yes, she would laugh at me and then suddenly disappear.  After all, often I start only with an inspiration and wait for what character I am working on to show up.

I start a character and then struggle with them as sometimes something doesn't seem right.  The clay starts drying out or for whatever reason, the character alludes me.  I only know that there is a lesson within each of my sculpted pieces and it is for me to discover.

Patience is definitely one of my requirements mixed in with a whole lot of curiosity.  Did I say it takes up to three months to make a doll?  Actually, at times when I am challenging myself to create something new, it can even take longer.  Spite is one of these.

As Spite shared her story with me and I discovered what makes her laugh, she finally revealed more of herself.  I would tell myself if I learned this one thing - like how to balance the head or find the right depth of clay to work with, then everything would fall into place.  But really... did it have to take this long for me to pick up what I needed to know?  Or by having to start a head over and over again.  Once the head is destroyed, I can never reproduce it exactly the same again.  It always comes in slightly different.  That is the uniqueness of a one-of-a-kind doll.

My lesson?  I know that "in Spite" of all the challenges and lessons I have learned with the Fae teaching me how to sculpt, the greatest lesson is to keep my sense of humor.  To be willing to laugh and look for the lighter side of life.  After all, that is the main job of a fairy is to teach us to play with our inner child.