Thursday, June 16, 2005

Thursday

Ah, a day off, finally. Nice and quiet. Just Zack and me to day. Connie is working, Elizabeth is with Grandma to go see "Josie" the hairdresser. I'm going to do a firing this morning in the kiln. Have lots of nice stuff ready. Everyone is asking for more things for the store. It's building up slowly and steadily.

Elizabeth is about to embark on her own line of jewelry. She's making her own beads, then she'll glaze them and put them together. I'll have to ask her Aunt Cathy how to do the fittings. I've never done that part.

Everyone asks for the kids to have more to sell, but they want to keep everything! So, I've put up pictures to look at what they can do and perhaps people will take orders from that.

I can understand that. When you open the kiln and take out your stuff, it's almost like magic. What you put in looks crummy because the glazes are dead and lifeless. When you open the kiln, they are bright and beautiful. It's quite the transformation. It takes a lot of foresight to do ceramics. It might not come out how you envisioned it in the first place.

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