We had dinner with Chris and Sharon last night – we’d been trying to have dinner with them for about two months but kept having to push it back, and Sharon gave me the loveliest little sampler she cross-stitched… It’s not that 2016 has been a personally horrific year; in …
Yesterday I got molds poured (I need to open them this morning), more molds sorted to sell (did I mention I sorted through about half of them on Monday and Tuesday?), only three mugs thrown, soap made, other soap popped out of molds, another plate made, some tiles made, the …
If you want to read something wise, go read what Tim said on Facebook yesterday. I don’t have anything wise to say today; I am tired and cranky and need more sleep and probably more water because I’m a little dehydrated this morning. I am all out of wise this …
How about putting it in a bag of rice? New batteries? Maybe replace the motherboard? Because this fuckin’ year, y’all. I read an article somewhere a week or two ago and it was really just a compilation of tweets about how shitty this year has been what with the sniper …
Dinner and the movie last night was great; the theater was crowded but we got there early enough that all six of us could sit together, and they all loved Rogue One as much as I did when I saw it for the first time (I also still do). Yesterday …
Christmas was ridiculously fun this year; Santa was overly generous to me, and while our dinner for 30 turned into dinner for 23, the amount of food everyone ate more than made up for the people who had to cancel and the studio positively rang with laughter and cheer. We …
I did have about six paragraphs written, but then there was an accident with the keyboard and a cat when I got up to refresh my coffee, and I really don’t feel like writing it all out again. Yesterday I cleaned out the studio – like, really cleaned! – …
I’d say I’m not feeling the Christmas spirit yet, but if you work retail you probably know I’m feeling the Christmas spirit alright, but it’s a spirit that wants to smack people across the back of the head and drink tequila straight out of the bottle. But today is going …
HAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAsob! The one lone plate survivor from the other day’s kiln explosion, the plate I was going to give as a Christmas gift even though four people would have been left out from my original list of five, the one that was one of four things I was …
This is probably my last blog post of 2016 (unless I sneak in next week and write up a review of all my kiln firings of the year – I honestly can’t remember if I did that at the end of last year or the very first week of this …
This is probably my last blog post of 2016 (unless I sneak in next week and write up a review of all my kiln firings of the year – I honestly can’t remember if I did that at the end of last year or the very first week of this …
When I opened the kiln yesterday, everything on the top shelf was fine – five or six pots I’d thrown in anticipation of doing raku at the January Crafts & Drafts. The second shelf, a shelf of prototype plates I’d slabrolled and was planning to glaze up, testing different colors, …
So now that the mad dash of getting things together for craft shows is over, it’s time to get things together for Christmas! I meant to fire the kiln (I’d already loaded it up with greenware) when I got back on Sunday, and I totally forgot what with unloading the …
It was supposed to be a work weekend, but it really more wound up being a vacation! I wound up spending the weekend with my friends Beth and Jeromy, who were kind enough to open up their home and let me force affection on their cat and dog for the …
Mostly today I am walking from one end of the studio to the other, and into the office, and back out into the studio, wondering what to do first – which is funny because now it’s almost lunchtime and the day is half over! I have already started the kiln …
Mostly today I am walking from one end of the studio to the other, and into the office, and back out into the studio, wondering what to do first – which is funny because now it’s almost lunchtime and the day is half over! I have already started the kiln …
Off the needles: A Fourth Handspun Hat Name: A fourth handspun hat Pattern: The Amanda Hat by Gina House Needle: US 7 Yarn used: Various handspun Started: March 6 2015 Completed: March 12 2015
Off the needles: A Fourth Handspun Hat Name: A fourth handspun hat Pattern: The Amanda Hat by Gina House Needle: US 7 Yarn used: Various handspun Started: March 6 2015 Completed: March 12 2015
Off the needles: A Fourth Handspun Hat Name: A fourth handspun hat Pattern: The Amanda Hat by Gina House Needle: US 7 Yarn used: Various handspun Started: March 6 2015 Completed: March 12 2015
All this thinking about how I’m ready for Big Bang Bazaar, and I didn’t really think about how oh, yeah, I’m spending Friday night and Saturday night with friends in Orlando, so maybe I should pack my suitcase? Hahaha. At least I have three piles of clean laundry to pull …
I mean, I love a good plan, don’t get me wrong! I plan out my year, work-wise, in three-month chunks. But then life is easy and I finish things early or things get in the way and I finish late and I almost never launch things when I originally planned… …
Mostly yesterday I puttered around. I finished about a dozen half-finished things, each one taking 30-45 minutes. I finished wrapping a soap set, took new photos of it, and got it listed. I spent some quality time with my bullet journal and next year’s production calendar. I made kissy noises …
What are you working on this week? For having a show this Saturday, I am remarkably composed and not in a whirlwind tizzy of work. In ceramics, mostly what I’m working on are prototypes for a couple of things for next year, and Christmas presents for my family (it’s a …
What are you working on this week? For having a show this Saturday, I am remarkably composed and not in a whirlwind tizzy of work. In ceramics, mostly what I’m working on are prototypes for a couple of things for next year, and Christmas presents for my family (it’s a …
