field trip: linner@pogu

Weekend scenes. I only sold $50 worth of my pottery, but selling wasn’t really the point. Really I just wanted to get rid of pots that were sitting in my storage rental. If I could only get rid of boxes of fabric just as fast. I gotta start sewing too. Maybe a business pop-up called Clay + Cloth is in my future. That Saturday, I gave a lot of ceramics to fellow ceramicists, and then brought what was left in the box to the parks and rec for those potters to pick the pots they wanted and sell the rest at their pop-up as my donation to their studio. Looking at all those different pieces also helped me to figure out what I want my voice as an artist to be. I also took pics of my favorite pots by fellow makers. I admired Sam’s bananas...

and wind bells...    

and a fellow potter’s bear mug.

I even had time this weekend to trim pots that weren’t really leather enough for trimming, but I went with it and they’ll be more cute banchan bowls for glaze play and white vessels for my tableware line.

I let Patrick cook our stay at home steak night dinner this weekend though I cooked the sides to add some plant forwardness. Besides baking a potato, I made a Broadway pea salad, water chestnuts and bacon and white sauce not pictured...        

...and roasted golden beets.

More salad components for weekday salad lunches.

And instead of spending a Sunday in Santa Cruz because we’re doing a long weekend stay by the beach instead, Cybil and Lyra and I went to lunch-dinner aka “linner” at Pogu, the restaurant in the middle of Jagalchi. I ordered a soju melon cocktail and the 30 dollar abalone and rice.    

 

Cybil ordered the same cocktail and the beef and rice bowl while Lyra went for a Grand Marnier soju cocktail and the seafood and soft tofu soup and rice meal. I tasted Lyra's soup and said, I would do that and loved her citrus soju drink.

Later at the sushi and oyster counter, I ordered a half dozen of the steamed oysters (kept the shells for a crafting project I told them we'd do in Santa Cruz) while Cybil had a beer. Then we went to the bakery called Basquiat to eat slices of whipped cream layer cake slices baked with rice flour. And then the long walk through the mall to the Japanese dollar store where I bought macrame hangers for future plant pots I'll make and my favorite Hi-Chew candy and a cute notebook to jot in. And then to another favorite bakery of Cybil's so she could buy custard tarts and Lyra a boba tea while I was disappointed that I didn't get a mochi matcha donut for later though I did buy Patrick a trendy Dubai chocolate bar. T'was a full afternoon of enjoyable companions and fun eating adventure.