Granddaughter potters!

 

Caroline's tea set was awarded the Top 25 Governor's Award of Excellence when she was in high school.

Here Caroline was working out of her home on another pottery project. When she had Covid and had to stay in her room, she worked on clay. Her family said they'd hear her slamming her clay down on a board on the floor as she wedged it.

Now her younger sister, Kate, is a junior in highs school and is taking clay in art classes also. This hand built piece was painted with underglazes...and makes a great vase.

I particularly like the stems of lavender pressed into the sides of this vase for details. It was coiled into the shape with alterations.Father, Russ is pretty proud of our second generation of potters in the family, as am I. The silvery metalic finish was a low fire glaze applied after it had been fired to vitrification, meaning it can hold water.

Tai, my youngest son, took ceramics as his Master of Fine Arts concentration at Indiana University, after a non-degree year at U of Colorado, Bolder, and his BA from Eckerd College with art as major. He was clay studio assistant for several sessions at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. He taught ceramics at Du Paugh University, in Indiana, then moved to Colorado where he worked with high school students to help them graduate and obtain grants for college, so no more art work in his life then.

Some of the work Tai has in his home can be seen here.

 

Before the feast

Something's burning, on the other side of our apartments, on the other side of US 70 and the other side of I-40.

But I was off to Ohio to visit family, so never found out what the burn was.

 The front yard of my son, Russ' house had about 20 squirrels digging away...while a big wind came through for hours on Wed. the 27th.

Here's another of my grand-dogs...Cody. He's snuggled asleep, and I was glad to sit with him, because he usually is barking. Sleep equals quiet.

So we did lots of indoor things that day...getting ready for making the big feast on Thurs.

And here's the morning of. Some family prep work. I was the recorder. And made the gravy.

Michelle has a pretty dress under her apron.

And Audrey was happy to cut up the potatoes before they were cooked and became, you know!

Caroline is the mistress of the sweet potato casserole.

Russ and Michele have a cheerful time, pretty much all the time.

Granddaughter Kate tried the chocolate chip banana bread that Russ made last night. I tried both of the loaves, one with and one without chocolate chips. Excellent breakfast food.

Below is the making of the 2 kinds of bread (you can see the chocolate chips in the bowl still...but they all ended up in the moist bread!)

 I sent this out as my FB wishes, since I delve into so many ancestry things and probably bore my descendants to tears with them.