{"id":4650,"date":"2013-10-06T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2013-10-06T02:55:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T08:55:40","slug":"having-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/having-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you read this past week’s newsletter, you know I was traveling and spent a bit of time with the ever-entertaining and intelligent\u00a0Christi Friesen<\/a>. We got into some pretty deep conversations (regularly punctuated with laughter), but one of the more important ones was about not taking your clay too seriously. I may be guilty of that at times, but it is best kept in perspective. Because, as Einstein put it …<\/p>\n

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So don’t forget that what you are doing should be fun. Allow yourself to play as well as push through to meet those deadlines. There will be more on this (including a test to figure out what your goal should be with your claying) in the Winter 2013 issue of The Polymer Arts<\/em>, due out late November.<\/p>\n

If you like the fun drawing done with the quote above, a fellow artist, (ceramic) clayer, and Etsy seller\u00a0Charity Hofert<\/a>\u00a0penciled the quote we see here and has this and other colorful prints in her Etsy shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, in case you are not aware, twice a month we send out a newsletter with the latest updates on the magazine, community news and events, and at least one great tip for working and creating with polymer. If you haven’t signed up for it (and no, we do not access our newsletter list for anything but sending the newsletter and never, ever share it) you can do so on the left hand side of The Polymer Arts home page<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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