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One Of Those Days
Alright, I know everyone has one of those days. Well I have had a couple now. I am back up here in Washington state, just got back a week ago, and the plan was to do stained glass and work for my dad to earn money. So I started on stained glass two days ago, I am working on a native american salmon design, something that I altered from an intricate design to more simple. The first one went ok, its a little small, and a couple tiny mistakes most people wouldnt see. Then I enlarged the pattern to a size that people would buy.
The fish that I worked on yesterday, I got it almost done, as I was soldering it together I burned myself with a drop of solder and dropped the fish about 4 inches and broke a couple of pieces. That made me mad, but I decided to not let it get the best of me and jump right back on that horse and try again.
So today, I stalled for a bit, I wasnt real eager to get back out there after last nights disaster. But I finally made it out to the shop and started on 3 fish at the same time. I got all the pieces cut for 2 of them, got them all foiled. I went back out to the shop to solder them together and half way through one a crack splits through a piece from heat fracture. When you solder with a hot iron on cold glass the glass goes into shock and fractures. So then I took each piece of the next one and held it in front of the woodstove until it heated up to the point it wouldnt fracture. Learn from your mistakes right? Wrong. The next one fractured too, and I have no idea why. The glass should have been plenty warm, it was warm to the touch. So out of 2 days of work, I have a pile of 3 broken fish to show for it, and no possibility of those ones being able to go to a store.
This would all be fine if I had money, but I am literally broke right now. I need the money from this stained glass, and now that I have spent 2 days not working for dad I have made nothing. I only plan on spending a month here in WA, and a week already into it I am not looking too good. So tomorrow I try a new pattern, and if that breaks on me I am going to give up and work for dad, and try to make as much money as I can that way. I am so frustrated right now, and I needed a place to vent, what better place than a journal right?
I love the pattern that I was doing, but it must be a major weekspot that keeps breaking, its not even the most narrow spot, I really dont understand it. But aparently that pattern just doesnt work for me.
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12/8/04 10:35 PM