Tuesday- the day that follows Monday

This morning I was going to go right in the studio and get down on those last tiles for the back splash.
I knew right where I left off and thought I could just knock those out.
But to tell you the truth after loading the kiln yesterday, which makes for a long day, I was moving slow and dallied around in the house until about 9:30- then I had to take a walk up the drive to place the open sign out.
It was a beautiful day today and that always makes it harder to head inside. 

 After getting back from my walk I kept thinking about how I wanted something to hang earrings and pendents on.
I looked and looked online last night.
I would find something I wanted and the cost was right but the shipping would be a bit too high.
I could buy one for under 15.00 but then the shipping was 10.00- that just raised the price to 25.00.
I decided I was going to cut some twigs and see if I could make something.
As I was playing around with the twigs Mark comes in and gives me some advice, shows me how to use his drill press- pretty cool- to drill the small holes for the wire.
I put them both together and then realized I could have used the drill to drill holes all the way across...
Well this just means I get to make another one-right?
Don't look too close.
I hope to get a little better on the wrapping.

I do think they hold some promise.
I used some fishing stuff to hold the pendents but I think I need to work on how I want that to work.
I would like to be able to just clip off the pendent if someone is interested in buying one or trying one on.
I think I want to look at a larger size.
Mark says I will have to go on to the deep sea fishing stuff to get a larger clip thingy- escapes my brain what these things are called right now.
Again shows some promise.

I did glaze through the afternoon and then played some more with these before I headed in.
Mark is out there firing the gas kiln and me- I am going to stretch out and pretend I am doing something important besides checking my eye lids for holes.

BUT WAIT!- I have to tell you that Connie Norman has posted an interview with me out on her blog.
Thanks Connie!
It has been such a pleasure to meet another potter/blogger.
I have admired Connie's work for some time now and getting to meet her, if only  through email for now, has been great.

Cheers!
M

Red, green , and six degrees

So my sister emails me a few weeks back to tell me that her nephew, who is in college and is studying glass blowing of all things, was invited by one of the guys who works at Wet Dog Glass over in Star to come and spend his spring break with him.
Nick, who makes some beautiful glass shapes is giving my sister's nephew a great opportunity to work with him by giving him some one on one instruction.

Yesterday Mark and I had to go see Takuro about ordering the clay for the tile project.
While we were there we had to drop in and meet the nephew. There was no mistaking who he was. He looks so much like my sister's husbands family.
We chatted a bit and then played the 3rd degrees of seperation.
He is related to my sister, he got here because he knows somebody who knows somebody.
Small world this art world is.
And it was great to watch the guys making some glass.
It was also great to watch the giving back, the time someone takes to teach someone the tricks of the trade.

Today I finally had a minute to glue some backs on earrings.
These are the fillers I put in the kiln when I am firing  tiles.
There are buttons there as well- but I can tell you a person has to be crazy as a bed bug to make buttons.
These drove me to the brink.
I am not sure I will ever do them again.
So button, button, who needs some buttons???

Sunday morning we enjoyed some time with my mother by inviting over some friends of my sister, our daughter , son-in-law and then us of course. I cooked up some lunch, just like we southerns like to do.
Sunday "dinner" at Ma Ma's house.
While there were about a dozen of us running around and visiting , cooking and eating, the cat, Penny, just climbed into a bag over near my mothers chair and went to sleep. In fact she slept there the whole time.
I just had to share the cat in the bag:

 She looks to have one eye open, but believe me, you, she is sound asleep.

Then to continue with all the red and green going on right now we had a yummy red sky yesterday that Mark grabbed the camera to catch.

 It seems my life is filled with red and greens right now.
Then again I did see some daffodils finally come out!
Yellow, it will be nice to add another color.