I've officially got to give up on the attempts at latex hood making for the time being, it's clear I don't have the experience to do a good enough job. I've probably gone through seven or eight attempts now through the course of almost eleven months, and have used an entire meter of white rubber sheeting trying to make it work, only to have one mediocre finished piece with really rough edges and seams.

I've tried and tried, and it's disheartening to fail this much. I don't have big blocks of time to carve out of my day to practice because of my wild work schedule, and when I do have time off I'm exhausted from the work day. And I know I've done myself no favors in trying to do hoods as one of my first forays into latex crafting; I know it's the hardest thing to do. I just wish I had something nice to show for it.

Hopefully by the time I get to enroll in one of the latex crafting courses back in Norway (by next year, with any luck), I can learn some tricks of the trade. But for now I think I'm just going to have to get somebody else to make me another hood to match my Zeta catsuit and wait the thirteen week dispatch time.

I just really wanted to prove to myself that I could do the latex crafting, and to be sure, I've made a few rudimentary tops and bottoms, and the one very rough completed hood. I just look at how fast some of my friends have taken to it and I've been trying to follow their instructions to a T, and none of my results look anywhere nice as theirs. It just makes me feel like a failure and like I shouldn't be dabbling in this sort of thing, or like I'm not good enough.

Sorry all for the long blocks of text, I usually like to be cheerful here, but I had to get these frustrations out.