So when my knitting mojo dissapears, my other artsy mojoes surface and demand a little attention. And right now my pottery-painting mojo and I are having disagreements on how much studio time is too much studio time. Especially since it's not one of my fortes. And it's a lot cheaper to just knit. So yesterday the pottery place called and said Ben and my stuff was ready to be picked up, so today he and I had an adventure to Starbucks to talk about stuff (his student teaching, my new boytoy- oh, it's facebook-legit now btw and ftw!, the pregnant girl at Harry's last week and silly thinks like that) Then we hit up the pottery place to pick up our masterpieces. I didn't have my camera with me so I didn't get a picture of his mug, but it turned out really cool. He did a geometric pattern in earthy colours, which I love. I finished a plate (pictured below) and did a bowl (not feature below because they chipped it when they brought it out of the kiln and I need to go back and fix it and re-fire it). But here is one of the first things that has pretty much turned out like I wanted it to.
The picture isn't great- because let's face it, if something is really shiny, it probably doesn't photograph well. It's a speckled royal blue plate with my favourite Hamlet quote, "and this above all- to thine own self be true" and then all the empty space filled in with paisleys in all my favourite colours. Love it! I even did a little paisley on the bottom (it was my tester-paisley).My bowl that got chipped was pink with polka-dots and another favourite Shakespeare quote, "Love is a madness" which Rosalind said in As You Like It. But that bowl needs help before it can make it on to the blog.
And in efforts to get myself doing stringy things again, I will be doing a 200th post giveaway fairly soon (this one is 192 I think). I'll probably do a set of potholders, but who knows! I could do something crazy like a knitting uterus or a small triangular shawl at the last minute! Want to get it on that? Comment. Say something funny. Say something dorky. Say something about your dog or your pets or your boyfriend. You can even say something about the blog- I don't really care! But heads up- there will be a giveaway soon to celebrate my 200th postiversary. I'll let you know when you need to start dropping comments in order to win yourself a super sexy set of potholders. Oh yeah...
3 comments:
Of course I (and my dog) LOVE the paisley on your plate!
like the "quote" and your talents keep shining through.
My favorite Shakespeare quote is "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings."
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