Or something like that. I like to start my posts with a catchy title. Shock effect...me and that radio guy with the long black hair...we like to use the old shock effect technique! So this is the haunted War Bride sculpture I was making for the ADQ Bride challenge. She was coming along nicely and then...life got in the way. Big, hairy, unforgiving life...sigh.... But truth be told I had a little creative block going on, as well. I couldn't mesh her story line and a backdrop. She sat on that trunk and just stared at me. I started to make little suitcases to add in there but it seemed really forced. And, really hard. I didn't want to make suitcases. Just plain didn't want to. And I made the base look like wood planks and that wasn't working because I felt like she was waiting for someone to come to her...she would be on shore..on pavement or brick or such. I couldn't wrap my head around it. But most of all I felt like it looked