clay: sunday afternoon handbuilding and evening throwing class

Still exhausted from Saturday night socializing at the parks and rec ceramic studio, I then went the next afternoon to the Clay Life studio for some hand building. I had started on a Friday night, a Christmas tree and added two more that Sunday afternoon. I still need to come in on an early weeknight to spackle on more clay and slip on cracks and perch stars on the other two trees. I love how they look, but they are humbling me with their drying too fast and cracking. I may be rolling the slabs too thin and cutting out the stars too close together. Or I may need to next time cut out fewer stars while building the cone. Yesterday at school, I made a bigger template for larger 🎄trees.

I had just managed to construct the trees before it was then time to go to my beginning throwing class for the trimming of pots thrown on the previous two Sundays. Most of my classmates had 8 pots to trim while I only had 5. I botched 2 and threw them in the trimmings bucket, but managed to somewhat successfully trim 2 bowls and a cup for which I constructed a handle and then inscribed with text. The plan is to just adhere black underglaze into the text and then dip the whole mug into gloss white and then decorate the shit out of it with floral decals.

The bonus of Sunday was bedtime when Patrick and I play the New York Times games before retiring for the evening. We found the pangram of Spelling Bee, Wordle was solved in three tries, Mini Crossword solved in 1:07 minutes, and we found the 2 words in Letter Boxed!

 

The previous nights of these puzzles were confounding, probably because it was too late or we were too tired for brain work. Okay so my husband doesn't travel with me, but I count this couple activity as a connecting win.