My day off today. I finally have a day to craft out. Work on my clay. Spit some shit out.
Bernie had other plans. She went to the dentist early in the morning, had me watch for the plumber. Me and Hunter watched 'How to Train Your Dragon'. The plumber was a no show. Bernie finally gets back from the dentist. We have breakfast together and I take a shower. NOW the plumber shows up. Forgot the cardinal rule: if you want to summnon a plumber, take a shower.
By now it's 11am, and I haven't bent a wire. Haven't kneaded any clay. No worries, the day is still early. Bernie asks me to work on her gallery glass project, so I do a few designs for her. While they dry, she reminds me that we need to get groceries. We go to several stores. She takes me out for a late lunch. By the time we get out, it's time to pick up Chelsea, head home and start dinner.
I forget what we ate, I wasn't hungry. I usually don't eat as much as I do on my days off with Bernie. Dinner comes and goes. By now, Bernie's gallery glass designs are dry so I prep the window and apply. It's a lotus and koi design. I get distracted with Bernie's project, and most of my evening is gone.
I'm still determined to start the armature on my next clay project. It is my day off after all, so it's now or never. I spit out a dragon frog armature and start on the aluminum foil filler. My biggest challeng is the belly. A proper fragon (frog-dragon= fragon) needs a big, fat belly.
I was able to get in a good 45 minutes today for my projects, altogether. But I was able to create the wings for my serpentine dragon and get a good start on my next project.

I 'finished' my red dragon. I'm still not satisfied, might do more finishing work on it, but it's basically finished. I haven't gotten around to taking pictures of the finished dragon with the wings attached. As soon as I do, I'll probably post it on etsy.
Did some more work on my second dragon. Mostly built up the arms with foil. I'm proscratinating doing the legs because I'm considering ideas.
I made an extra set of claws and a bunch of eyes, horns, teeth, more claws. I wanted to make a smaller dragon using those claws. The idea being to emphasize the size of the claws.
Back to my second dragon.... I don't know what to do about the back legs!
My solution was to create a Naga - a humanoid with a snake like body. That is, a humanoid dragon with a snake like body. It should have a face similar to the Red Dragon and wings.
some picture will be posted later. Maybe.

Did some more work on my polymer clay dragons. Mostly on the face. I'm trying multiple techniques on different dragons. I've tried creating a skull, to which I add the eyes then the teeth. The other technique I'm trying is where I create the eyes, horns and teeth first, to which I add some clay and build up the features.
Wish I had some pictures to document the process, but I'm short on time.
I did manage to get one red dragon mostly done. I finished the wings and still need to finish the paint.
I'm including pictures of both dragons. I'll include finished pictures, with the real wings attached later on the red dragon.

I'm really tired. Made some cheese enchiladas. Smothered in sauce. And cheese. Then some cream on top, chopped olives and onions. More cheese. Had a healthy side of rice and beans. Beans had crumbled cheese. It was absolutely tasty, heavy, cheesy, and... tasty. I only had two, but I also made a very tasty bowl of guacamole. MMMM....
I've been working on the dragon arms and legs. The ones I'm making look more humanish, but I'll make it work. Originally I wanted to make very pronounce forearms with thinner upper arms. Somewhat like Gundam wing or robotech. The upper arms became beefier than I wanted. I'll post more pictures later. Maybe tomorrow, once I digest those enchiladas!

Sold my aquarium today. It was a nice aquarium. I'll try to include some pictures. It was a planted aquarium with lace rock, driftwood, and some small peaceful fish. I won't mention what I paid for it, but it was enough to pay for my vendor fees for the Fairy Fest in November. I really liked that tank, but I really want to go to the fest that much more. I sold the last of my telescope eyepieces to help pay for the vendor fees, but my other computer took a dump and had to get a motherboard. I used some of the leftover money to buy some acrylic paints and super sculpey.
Speaking of sculpey, I included some pictures of the claws on wire armature. I bake these on, then add some flesh to the bones. I've also include some pictures of wings that I've made with cellophane and wire.
Funny thing, I kept my albino bushy nose plecos from the tank that I sold, and I kept some of the baby guppies, but I miss my tank.
I'll try to sell some more things so I can pay for my studio fees. I'll also need some $$ to pay for supplies for even MORE creations. I really need to get to Mishy's some time and do more clay.

I'm currently working on some polymer clay dragons. I have several that I'm working on at once. My mind just works better when I can try different ideas at once. I was working on short necks and long necks, thin bodies versus thicker, gorilla like bodies.
I'm also trying different techniques on hands and feet, but it's basically the same. I create a skeleton of claws to which I build up with clay. I'm adding clay to the end of thin wire armature for the hands, then building it up from there. A little difficult to explain.
I found a link somewhere for making wings with heat shrink cellophane. I've modified it slightly for the galvanized wire I'm using.
Looking over my notes here, it sounds like bullshit. I think the best thing to do is to add some pictures to document what I'm doing. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow, but that's low on my list of priorities.
Still working on other stuff, but I'll post that as I get to it. Maybe.

New blog. About the title- I've been selling my things at the Phoenix Fairy Fest Goblin Market and at First Fridays for a couple years now. I have another blog that I use to talk about my bonsai and related pottery. This blog is where I will address my inner goblin; I will use this blog to document my work in pottery that is not related to bonsai, as well as any other non-bonsai related projects. And yes, being this is my blog, I will also right about any random shit that pops in my head. My current projects- I won't discuss my bonsai projects. I'm currently experimenting with polymer clay, sculpting thin dragon-esque figures with wire armature. I'm also using paper mache for larger projects. Other hobbies- I have 3 aquariums; one planted in low light plants. I keep angelfish. I used to keep and breed old world chameleons, bearded dragons, and leopard geckos. As a result, I'm somewhat of an ameture entymologist. Entymology is the study of insects. I've kept and raised exotic roaches, phasmids, superworms, mealworms, silkworms, and other fascinating creepy crawlies. Personal life- I don't like to talk about my personal life. I'm married, with 5 kids. Spent 9 years in the US Navy, traveled around the world. I've been to 5 of the 7 continents of this good earth. I've broken bread with the Massai warriors under the shadow of Mount Kilimonjairo. I've sailed up the amazon river and broken bread with endigenous people there. And that's all you get.