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i will call this new post

well, i got a new car, 2011 nissan versa, love it

and my new creative thing is i am taking a class for soapstone carving.
i am not sure about it
i tried to take this class last year and there were not enough people so they sent my money back....
now this time around, i saw it offered again and i said to myself, screw them it was cancelled last time and i was looking forward to it. so i threw the book away. then a week or so ago i got a call from the adult ed dept asking me if i would take the class because they almost had enough people to have the class this time. so i reluctantly agreed.

now i am taking it and i am not sure what will come of it.
they have us working on a block of plaster to get used to the tools
i started out not knowing what to carve
then i thought i would do a bird, but i could not really 'see' the bird in the 4 x 4 block of plaster... i still cant
and then i started chipping away at it and realized
a) how hard it is to control the tools
b) how tiring it is to do this
c) and how pointy a bird it (beak and tail) so i decided to not make a bird
i will post it when i have something worth posting....

even though i still cant see the animail in the block but i decided on a very simple bear. and so i was chipping away at it tonight until my arm was too tired.