A while back, I bought this latex mask from BDG Sales along with an attachment for my Israeli gasmask, a rebreather bag and a flexible hose. Unfortunately, the mask was one size too large but it was on sale, so what the hey. It's a really nice mask with several panels for a nice facial contour and fit around the head.

Anyway, working with the instructions on rubberist.net I've carefully the mask apart and I've removed some of the material to make it 2 inches smaller in diameter both horizontally and vertically. Right now, I'm gluing it back together. It turns out that there's a special technique for gluing curved seams into a latex garment! Fortunately, I've sewn curved seams with a sewing machine before in regular fabric, so I was able to figure out what more or less what they were talking about.

Ugh. I'm coming down with something. I'm feeling achy, fevery, a little stuffy, and my digestive tract has gone haywire. Early bedtime tonight for me.

The hip belt came off after 3 days on Wednesday morning right on schedule. Thanks Strict Mistress! It was such a relief to get out of that thing, as it usually is.

The silicone edging has come loose on both my waist and hip belts near the crotch area, and they both need some aquarium sealant lovin' to get back to ship shape again.

I've tossed the previous plastered hip section and I'll start over with the other side. This time, I'll remove the outer layers before laying down a coat of plaster over the whole thing to seal off the pores. I'm still debating whether to fill out the bone with plaster then sand smooth or whether to sculpt the shape in polymer clay using the plaster covered bone as an armature. I bought some clay sculpting tools.

My girlfriend and I went to Janus' Kinky Relationships class last Thursday night. I'm not sure that she understood everything because she's really not super-fluent in English, but I think she wasn't too scared off. I do think she is starting from a very vanilla perception of sex though. But I'm proud of how maturely she took in and sat through the whole thing!