Getting ready for the next show

I have few opportunities to sell my pottery, thus I live with shelves and tubs of it in my tiny apartment. But a big show is coming up the first Sat. of December.  At the Marion High School, indoors! McDowell Arts Council sponsors the show for just pottery.

Once again Cathy Babula and I will take our tables, shelves and tubs of pottery to sell to those wonderful customers who want the best pottery in the area.  This show is where everyone gets their gifts for Christmas!  And almost all the potters in the area will display their wares. I noted the many ou56t-of-state potters in Dillsboro's pottery show.  I'd guess about half of them came from outside North Carolina.  This show will have many more local potters.

I'm sent in this photo of my sunflower bowl for the program.

Hope to see you Dec. 2!

 Today's Quote:

When negative thoughts arise it is best to address them rather than pushing them down where they will surface again. 
Madisyn Taylor

Honoring an ancestor every chance I get:

Robert FARNHAM I, 1577–1604

Birth 1577 • Leicester, Leicestershire, England

Death 1604 • Leicester, Leicestershire, Eng

 He was my 10th great grandfather on my grandmother Ada Phillips Swasey Rogers' tree.

Robert FARNHAM was born in 1577 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. He married Elizabeth HOLT in 1600 in Leicestershire, England. They had one child during their marriage. He died as a young father in 1604 in his hometown.  His wife Elizabeth Holt Farnham lived from 1581-1675.

Ancestry has some other information, including another wife's name, and other children...but there's little to substantiate that information yet.

 

 

 

 

What we see vs what's really happening

Oh boy, sometimes you just live right.

 

I'm scrolling through my emails, and there are some photos that actually match the Sepia Saturday prompt, so very well, I think!

Here's a video: Harold Lloyd's Safety Last.

Such lovely early film work and just look at the acrobatic skills!

This is part of another one of Open Culture's articles: Captivating GIFs reveal the magical special effects in silent films.

 Enjoy the trickery of early Hollywood, before green screens and Computer Generations!

Thanks Sepia Saturday for the 350 fun and educational opportunities to share with each other through the magic of the internet.  What do you think the next great imaginations will come up with?



Today's Quote:

"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."Sir Isaac Newton

The three laws of motion. The First Law states that objects at rest tend to remain at rest, and objects in motion tend to remain in motion, unless they are acted upon by an external force; the Second Law states that an applied force on an object equals the rate of change of its momentum with time; and the Third Law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Sir Isaac Newton

Clay work again

After the short hospital stay, and the long getting back on my feet, I plan to be selling retail again this next Fri and Saturday.
Yay me.

But I also want to be thinking of gifting to those I love with whatever things I've made that they might like.

So before my daughter-in-law went home on Friday, I gave her her Christmas gift.  The 6 piece set of mugs which had just been finished (while I've been recuperating they were fired).  I really liked how they looked all together and didn't want to sell them one by one, so this solved that!

But I forgot to take any photos of them.  I do like the glaze combo (same as mug-bowls posted HERE).  And Michelle was nice enough to take a few candid shots to send me, which I now share with you.

Don't forget (all you local people and tourist visitors) Holly Jolly at Black Mountain Center for the Arts 5-8 pm on next Fri. Dec. 4. That's upstairs next to the gallery.

And my final sales opportunity for this year is the McDowell County Appalachian Potters Market, at the Marion High School on Sat. Dec. 5, from 10-4.  This is a great Pottery Show, and I'm one of the lucky potters (in a booth with Cathy Babula).

update on 2 projects of mine

Last Friday I gave you my return to blogging post about 2 things, HERE.  Here are updates on both.

First my friends liked the pitcher/mug which pours without drips.  It was so easy after seeing the one that does drip that the other is just right.  And they also liked the huge one.

Yes, he wants the single cup of coffee each morning, and she wants a double shot of tea!  With a ladybug also!

Thanks so much for your support, dear friends!

Second project I mentioned a week ago was the scanning of old photos so I could share them digitally.

I have accomplished about a third of this tub of photos, which are sorted into places I've lived (oh yes, I do get around a lot!).  I take a few shortcuts, like having a lower dpi than if these were to be used professionally.  And I batch 4-6 on each scan.  That's because it takes about 2-3 minutes for a scan with my old printer.  The printer doesn't work any more at all (clogged ink-jets) and I don't have the money to get a new one...but it can still scan.  So an hour at a time, while reading a mystery if I'm really bored, or just plodding along in a mindless daze, they are getting put into a dropbox where each of my sons can share the folder.  Another folder is designed to share with my best friend who I went to school with and we have similar memories of those good old (?) days.

The new header above on my blog is a result of this project.  I found those old photos and made a new collage...from my teens to my 60s.  I kind of skipped a lot of my adulthood.  I think that was a conscious choice actually.  While I worked my little fingers to the bone on various keyboards, or returned to college and used same fingers to answer test questions or create in clay...that was also a parallel existence for my sons as they grew up into manhood.  A bit too much to cover in a header collage.

And this is my birth month.  Though I got the year mixed up, I am celebrating it all month this year.  That was part of the result of my stay-cation.  I know you're saying, "Will she ever shut up about her damned stay-cation?  It's not as if she WENT anywhere!"  Well, maybe I'll go somewhere and let you know about it, or maybe not.

But mainly I'm celebrating that retirement is all a stay-cation!  What do you know about that!

Today's Quote:

A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.

Paramahansa Yogananda