Hey hey boys and girls! Fellas and fellers! I'm Carol! Here at the Circus, there are many fun things to do! People to meet and snacks to eat! Oh we have candy, popcorn, cotton candy, peanuts, and so on so on so on! I hope you all have SO much fun! Now that my introduction is out if the way, let me introduce you to the Clown Circus members!!!! HAHAHAHA!
Hello, I’m B, and I take care of two clowns with my husband. We also occasionally foster clowns and find places the clowns can be safely adopted. We do not breed any, only wanting to provide safe homes for clowns to those that do their research, and can keep up with their clown’s needs.
Our clowns are Mignonette(Meanyonette), a jester clown, and Tear(Tehr), a scary clown.
Mignonette was our first clown, and they are a sweetheart that loves to squeak and run around the home and tent outside. They will sometimes sing a song or do acrobatics. They wandered into our yard one evening, young and lost, and we have given them a loving home ever since.
Tear is a scary clown that Mignonette found as we were on a walk, to which Tear followed us all the way home, staying close to Mignonette. We’re unsure why they had an instant, close bond, when scary clowns typically like to be alone, however we are just happy that they’ve bonded. Now, Tear only stays by Mignonette’s side. Tear has distrust in a lot of people but he warms up eventually when given reason.
We are not currently fostering any clowns at this time, but if we are looking for someone to adopt a clown there will be updates!
If you have any questions about clowns, or our clowns, please feel free to send in an ask!
Hello! I bought this doll today at the thrift store. She has a little wind up music box that plays “My Favorite Thing”, and her head moves in circles while the music plays. I found her creepy and cute and was thinking she’d be really cool if I made her into a clown! Her little head moving would be cool as a clown I think. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions or advice that would be greatly appreciated!! Even information about the kind of doll she is would be interesting! I’ll have to think about giving Madison the clown makeover she deserves :)
I think some people need to hear this, so I want to say it.
The moment you start taking something seriously, that moment you decide “I’m going to improve at this, I’m going to become better at this”, you become slightly worse at it. This applies to everything: Art, games, sports, analysis, research, anything. You become slightly worse at it because you are actually thinking about it.
For most things, most people tend to run on autopilot, not particularly thinking too much and getting it over with or just enjoying it in the moment. When you really want to improve at something, though, you become slower and a bit worse at it, because now you are thinking about it, you are noticing things, you are making conscious decisions that are not as fast or as spontaneous or as natural as you just simply doing it. Now you’re performing, or attempting to.
This isn’t a bad thing.
It’s because of this period of temporary perceived weakness that we improve. That which we analyze, mull over, think hard about it, we start internalizing it, and the more we internalize something, the better we become, because that now becomes a part of our autopiloting, if that makes sense to you. Slowly but surely, that thing you really needed to focus on to do properly now just comes naturally, and now you have a much better skillset without thinking about it.
And what happens after? Since you became better, you also understand more, and can notice more things, more things that those really good at the thing do, more things that you were doing wrong all along, and can now identify it was bad and that you have to correct it, and now you have more things to think about and internalize. The cycle repeats. You become better through periods of being worse.
It’s a cruel balance.
Ask any illustrator or writer: First comes the honeymoon period where they are improving by leaps and bounds with experimentation, thought, and exercise. Then comes the downs. “Oh I am so god damn bad at drawing”. “I can’t write to save my life”. Why? Because the artist learns, and they can see things they couldn’t before, and now they see their improvement, but they also see their flaws. It is at these crossroads where the artist will ask themselves, “do I dare go through this period of self-admonishment, or do I go back to the comfy laurels?” The comfy laurels are stagnant, they never stop blooming, but they only bloom once. The self-admonishment is a harsh self-imposed winter, but the flowers that grow after it passes bloom several times, and as the snow clears, yet another crossroad stands before you, and we go back to the same question once more.
It’s a beautiful balance.
Where I am going with this is, if you find your commitment to something has instead made it harder, has made you sluggish, has made you see perhaps too much for your own comfort: Hang in there. These are growing pains. You need these, and they aren’t wonderful to go through and good lord do they weigh heavily on you... Why? Because you care. That’s why you’ll improve. Hang in there.
It’s a necessary balance.
Hang in there. You’ll improve so much. You’ll be incredible, and then go on to agonize hundreds of times more and improve thousands of times more. Hang in there. If it was easy to improve, then there wouldn’t be merit to it. It’s hard because it matters, it’s difficult because you care. If you didn’t care, you’d be blind to hardship, but to so many beautiful things you can only experience after you’ve sought adversity. In the end, the rest follows, but only if you follow through.