Christmas Eve presents

Now we could be using the verb form of present, to present something to you...but I'm not.
This time I have photos to present...of presents that are being given.  Or maybe I'm presenting presents.

ENOUGH, you're throwing things at your screen, screaming at my verbal theatrics.

A plate for Teresa

My friend, Teresa ordered a set of dinner plates.  Then she had to have a transmission put in her Jeep, so cancelled the order.  (I'd only thrown 3 at that point I think).  I said ok, then sat around moping, wondering what to do with the energy I'd built up.  A day went by.  A few days went by.  I couldn't do anything.  I read novels.

I finally called Teresa, and said how about doing a pay it forward thing, where you give me just a little toward the plates, and I'll make them, and you can pay when you can pay.

She said yes, gave me enough money to purchase the clay for 8 plates.  I made 5.  I showed them to her after the glaze was finished, just as she'd chosen from a sample small plate.

So I made the rest, they were fired in plenty of time, and I delivered them to her. 

Her original idea was to give them to her adult children, saying they could then bring all these plates back together once a year for a feast with her family.  It was a good idea.

Then she said she wouldn't be having all 8 of the family members at dinner, which had originally been planned.

Many plans tend to do this, don't they?

A few days ago I realized I hadn't taken a picture of them, though they were in my house for weeks.  So yesterday she brought one back so I could make a digital photo to keep to remember the plates, one of many in my portfolio.

I think I make pretty good plates.  I haven't ever had one crack.  The glaze can sometimes give me problems...mainly from community studio issues.  But I'm not about to get my own kiln.

  Teresa also gave me a lovely basket of fruits and a calendar for Christmas.  She said she knows when she has it, she'll pay me for the plates.  I know she will also.