MYGROUNDUPSTARTUP Week 8 “Game Over”

It’s game over. I’m so screwed. I don’t know what to do. Everything feels like it’s falling apart, and I just want to scream. I’m aware I sound like a little girl but I’m so upset right now.

Let me start at the beginning. 

This week I took a few of my clocks into the shop to put numbers on them. I was very excited and was looking forward to getting some of these clocks completely finished. I brought my stencils in with me and got some paint out. I took my 16-inch stencil and put it onto my multi-color clock and began painting.

 I soon realized how hard stenciling is. The clock consists of 6 boards put together. Each board varies ever so slightly in its thickness which makes the stencil uneven and causes it to bleed. And even if it was perfectly flat it’s just so hard to keep it from bleeding. For anyone who doesn’t know, bleeding is where the paint gets underneath the stencil and makes it look splotchy. This was the end result.

This is absolutely terrible. I can’t show anyone this. This is just plain embarrassing. Well, I guess I’m showing it to you but that’s different.

I was still optimistic though and thought maybe I just needed to hold down the stencil better. So, I went to Walmart and bought a can of adhesive spray that I’d heard some people had used. You simply spray it onto the back of the stencil, and it will stick to whatever you’re stenciling. Perfect. 

I went back to the shop and sprayed the other stencil and put it on the half-black, half-oiled clock. It is the middle image seen above. Significantly better but still terrible. This clock looked amazing before I stenciled it but after I saw the finished product I threw it in the trash with extreme prejudice.

I can’t sell this. I have no idea what I’m going to do now. How am I going to put numbers on now? How will I ever finish any clocks? This was supposed to be the easy part and now I don’t know if this whole idea will even work at all. I’m so screwed. 

I never would have guessed that putting numbers on clocks would be in any way difficult. It’s never as easy as you think it will be. I suppose that’s this week’s lesson: It’s never as easy as you think it will be.

Back to the drawing board, I suppose. It feels like I’m starting from scratch again.