Natali Stoiyanna Erkaraman

Let’s step big with minimum effort. I’m online with a click now! What is next?

Dig into the old projects, search for details, and write down descriptions of what I want to say about myself with each specific project.

The posts that I’ve already posted should be eliminated too…

The site launch was not in my weekly plan… Simply spontaneous. But without any audience, there is not much to be stressed about anyways. So here we are.

My studio is getting its scent . A new smell of a studio. Not clay, not wood this time it is boiling paper and glue…

⏰ My well is just boiling. And my vision is getting more visible.

My milestone before visiting Turkey 🇹🇷 is to complete one ☝️ chess ♟ set and a photo shoot in the backyard. I have 2 months to go. What I can’t predict is the drying hours. But in any ways I should have some images to put together the Etsy shop to begin with. Otherwise I won’t have any job for 2 months in Turkey.

I usually don’t prefer to drink coffee ☕️ after dinner, it ruins my night sleep 💤 but for a good chance I had one this night and scored my last goal 🥅

I’ve started the fence thrown. This one probably will have many drying and adding stats.

I sculpture the handles as ears 👂 and will add earrings after drying. I’m also considering to dress him up with some fancy blouse detailing…

This one hour work time made me feel satisfied. Even I had many joyful hours with my son and beside the me time this made me feel like I am actually putting something on the table. And I realize how much I want to do so.

It is a cold 🥶 dark day. Snow flakes are going in every dimension and it is breezy.

I feel an urge to go and work. But I also has my daily responsibilities. It requires not working but nursing, playing, cooking and keeping 🧼 My loving 🥰 husband is also quite depressed of work and wants to be a home daddy instead, who is in charge of the house as a carpenter or a painter or a gardener… But why don’t we just put our minds on, to find out a new way, to do what we want to do, and earn for living a simple but serene life. 🍀 What do we need? Luck? Saved money 💰 more courage, more sacrifice? May be just to change our values in life.

I know it’s somewhere out there, and we are so close to it. We are almost there to figure it out… I believe we have this in us. I believe we are much more than what we had become. And today is just a step towering us to that people we wanted to be.

The day began early and the weather is rainy. But I’m still on my way to my new studio. Not far away from home but in the basement. Here is Monday clicks and tricks:

The mashed paper dough is ready. I placed my mixer stand in the toilet and with knowing what to do it took 25 mins ⏰ to mix a dough. I need 📌some baking soda and softener. I also mixed a citrus 🍊 solution to spray on cardboard models to balance the shrimping of my dough and model. It will also help to soften the overall piece and let me to sculpture evenly.

Paint 🎨 stand is opened today to set its needs. And first test trays are fully dried. 🌵 ⏰ it took a week on roof floor.

Here are some sculpture ideas 💡 and I will be trying one ☝️

My paper mashed dough was so thin that I changed my plan and go on with Rook the small cardboard already in a shape and size of a brick 🧱 I applied a pattern on the thin layer of mashed paper and leave a trace of stone tile.

On the other hand I started to apply the details on the other sculpture that is almost dried hard. Looks cute ☺️ I think 🤔 I am pretty close to define The King 👑

Thinks are waiting me home 🏡 growing or fading… In the meanwhile I was enjoying my time in NewYork, BedStuy and Williamsburg.

The things I saw 👀 tasted 👅 and smelled 👃 in Brooklyn , remembered me the main point of an outcome. Being pretty 😍 lovely 🥰 and neat. Brilliant and shiny ✨ new and unexpected, tickling and tacking in any ways of time and space. Even it is all dirty in those burrows I can easily notice how art is popping out in every view of the city.

With its live music performance, tonight was the first week of the studio. ✨ 🥁 ✨

It is not going well as expected but the path is quite visible. The timing is tight but still achievable. Everything feels exiting 😃

Planting

Flower seedlings 🌱 are growing wild. But no lavender detected. 👀 cucumbers 🥒2️⃣ are under the sink with lavenders 🟣2️⃣ for last two days / second attempt. The left behind pot with fresh dirt is resting.

Strawberries 🍓2️⃣ failed 😞

Tomatoes 🍅1️⃣ are going fast 💨 and would catch peas 🟢1️⃣ soon. The beans are painted by my kid who loves purple, black and glitter ✨ this tomato is actually his try although he is not a lover of them. I hope this will give him a chance to want to try tomatoes again.

Paper Mache

Cardboards 📦 are modeled as needed before mulching, QKNBRP. There is enough paper mush but I’m out of glue to make paper mash dough 📌which is a main need to go on. I have enough to sculpture Q and K for second week 🗓

The hardest part was to maintain the well. Baby swaddles and spinning mob bucket are my last additions to ✅ studios main needs and waste only clean water 💦

I welcome the shredder to finish the circle of ⭕️ doing paper mush. Now it is ready for a new start. All dry and clean 🧽

Any recycling paper is welcome 🤗 ♻️ 🗑

The last left over wet cardboards are for a recycling project of a broken outside ceramic 👩‍🌾 after the final touch of some 📌wood glue and outside vanishes it will look great next to the hammock.

Paint 🎨 stand is having some testing object to give a try 🗓 and some already painted beans needed to be vanished

This weekend we are invited for weekend to New York so I must find a watering 💧 solution before leaving tomorrow 📆

A tiling idea 💡 for grass planting is popped up. Can be helpful to secure grass seed to be eaten by birds. It is simply adding seeds on mashed paper before it gets hard. The thing I should try is to use flour instead of glue to help fertilize.

I feel happy 😊 to be in this circle even if it is just me who knows it. Because I feel right and I feel that is my right to believe 🌞

I found every need for my paper studio in our basement. I’m so lucky to have this space.

I have this big table and a soft sofa that are generous gifts from a close friend. And many overused kitchen utensils, pans, sieves, and prime bags, I have a smoothie mixer. A 400ml which is a great start for testing the ratio of the paper mash.

Testing is my main goal in the first day of studio so I also group 2 testing trays, beans, and a test plate that I applied same techniques I used on testing objects to follow the results before the hole drying process in case it needs some updates.