I need moral support I have a Dalek kicking my butt
Help Crafty Tardis...I need moral support.
I live in upstate New York, not a real hot spot for Doctor Who. We have a spook house and you may remember seeing my ood and TARDIS front here last year. This year I have taken on the daleks. Or one life size Imperial dalek I am constructing of paper mache and foam board. I know it's still early October but I feel like this dalek is kicking my butt. I have been working on it for a month now. I feel like I'm getting close but my craftsmanship is not as good as I would like. My husband does my spray painting for me outside. I gave him the dome to spray paint. He brought in back in tonight and you can see the paper mache lines. It wasn't smooth enough.
I have several other projects that I have put on hold for this damn dalek. I feel like it's all I think about, all I do. Tonight my husband joked about how he didn't think R2D2 was that tall, and I have the scale all off. Insinuating most people won't know what a dalek even is.
I used to do lots of crafts. When I developed rheumatoid arthritis 10 years ago I had to give up a lot of the things I used to do. I used to dabble in everything. I did some woodworking, weaving, knitting, crocheting, jewelry, cross stitch, ceramics, sewing, silk-screening, stenciling, and just about anything else. I even ceramic tiled my own bathroom by myself, before I had a husband to help me. In the past I might have made a dalek out of wood now I use foam board and even that is taxing me. I used to be a perfectionist. I have to accept that I can't do things like I could before. It's very frustrating.
I'm so close, I don't want to give up. What do you think? Is it worth pushing myself? I guess I know the answer I just want to hear it from someone else.