Hey guys, So, I know it's been a long time. I don't know what drew me here, but here I am! I've been a deviant for 12 years, and I've had a lot of good memories here. The site has definitely changed A LOT, but the bones are the same. I mean, I found my journal, and I'm typing, and I'm talking to myself as I write this, so I'm just as weird as usual. I haven't been sculpting, obviously. Late last year, I thought I was going to get back into it. I got this little rush of inspiration. I was feeling really empty and alone, and something pulled me back to sculpting for a little bit of comfort. I had recently lost a really close friend (NOT due to death, but just really shitty circumstances), and one day I sculpted a MechOwlie. Something I hadn't done in a really long time. I had originally thought of selling it, but then I named it after him, and then I couldn't sell it anymore. Because I just couldn't... This is Cucco, MechOwlie No.70. It's been a year since I lost them, and I still miss my friend every single day. But unfortunately, life must go on, with or without them. Woozle wuzzle. I also made an un-named Industrial Heart for the first time in a very long time for a fellow polymer clay artist. Number 151. It was to be used in one of her sculptures as a collaboration project, someday. We'll see what happens! Not long after this, the inspiration left me, and I hit a wall. And I haven't sculpted since. Maybe it'll come back. It always does, in some capacity. I'm hoping it does. Around the same time, I also got the opportunity to paint some vinyl dragon blanks for Becca of Dragons & Beasties for a charity event, so that kinda distracted me for a little while. It was something I haven't done before, and Becca had faith that it was something I could do. What am I up to these days? Well, I'm filling the void with decorated sugar cookies, now. That's mostly what I get up to. You can find me on Facebook under Sweethart Baking Experiment and I hang out on Instagram under my handle @kookienomz. No, I couldn't let go of the Kookie thing. It's part of me. Even my YouTube channel, where I do cookie tutorials, I nicknamed my channel "Kookievision". Obviously, cookies/kookies were always in the cards, huh? Weird. If I do any artwork or sculpting, Facebook is the first place you'll see it. If it's coffee painting or drawing or mandalas or anything like that, it'll be on my Crow Black Dream page. Oh yeah, did I tell you that I coffee paint and draw mandalas, too? Jebus. If it's sculpting, it'll be on my Monster Kookies page. Yeah, I've got three different pages. I just like to make things complicated, apparently. I like to make stuff in all sorts of mediums. That's also why I used the @kookienomz handle for IG, because I share *all* my stuff there. It's a big confusing mix of cookies, art, sculpting, mandalas, coffee painting, etc. Mostly cookies, though. If you guys find me, and you (used to) follow me on here, come introduce yourself - I'll probably remember you! I spent enough time here and got to know so many of you that your usernames are permanently etched into my skull, I swear... <3 Kookie