when I can't sleep or get back to sleep I like to go to my creation station and draw or in this case craft until I want to go back to bed so I decided to get my sculpey and make prototype paw pads and put molding putty over them to make a cast so when I am ready to start with the liquid latex and I was able to salvage my sculpey for future protects. and while I was doing my homework I learned that depending on the size and density of what you are making the latex can take one to about three days to harden and form but I will worry about this later