It is darn warm out there if you didn't notice.
I am making it warmer by firing a bisque.
It should be up to temperature in another 30 minutes or so.
So, while I was gone....
I fractured my right hand (by hitting a chair when I got too angry),
and no I would never have hit my child, I was just at my limit and had to hit something.
In my defense, I did choose a cushy armchair, it was just not cushy enough.
So while I was moaning about not being able to run in my one and only marathon,
I decided to do something anyway.
I decided to make hand-built functional pottery.
I haven't stopped since and it has been almost 8 weeks.
It seems that wonderful things really can come out of rotten situations.
It is hard to see it when you are in it. For sure.
I am cast free, throwing and hand building and trying, for the first time in my 25 years of living with clay, to make a go at it.
I mean to make a it a way to supplement my families income.
I am not delusional. I understand how hard this is and how many hours it takes and most of all that I might actually have to learn the business part of all this mess.
But I am excited. Like want to be in the studio all the time excited.
I am firing almost once a week and am working on a "line" that I feel proud of
and that I hope will enrich people's eating experiences.
I have continued being a mom, which tends to happen when you have two kids who are 7 and 10, and have struggled with rebellious, confused, angry children.
Not every minute, of course, but enough for me to anticipate it happening every day.
I am officially reading Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility.
The premise is to hold them accountable for their actions with consequences while maintaining empathy about the situation they are in.
The empathy part is quite challenging. :(
This could all be applied to other people I know and love and live with too ;).
Well, life is about learning and it is about being the best person we can be for those we love.
So here I go, trying again, like I will, over and over.
I have been cherishing my friends as of late. Well, I always do, but sometimes you
just realize
they are incredible and they make
the days
so much more
incredible
and
meaningful.
So thank you
friends.
So I am potting, parenting and partying
(not really partying just sounded good)
Oh and I have a new pottery blog... like really new, as in only one post new
freemanclayworks.blogspot.com/
Come visit and see my new pots and leave comments on how they can make you happier.
Happy almost summer. Only 23 more days of school. Yikes.
