And Now For Something Completely Different

I declare the Taste of Home Cooking Show a success!  I sold a few pieces and got to see some Shelby High friends that I don't get to see often.  Not at all bad for a Thursday afternoon.  I am still amused when people see my work for the first time.  Some are amazed and say things like, "Wow, you are doing pottery for real.  I mean for real for real."  How am I supposed to respond to that??  "Um, no.  I'm just pretending to be a potter?"  Honestly it still feels very much like that.  I can honestly say that when I look at my display, part of me wonders who made all that stuff.  

I have to give Ronnie Blackburn credit for the notable quote of the day: "This pottery show stuff wouldn't be all that bad if it weren't for the setting up and taking down."  I'm sure I don't have that quite right, but his point was a good one.  Sitting there visiting with people and occasionally trading a piece of pottery for some money (or sometimes a jar of honey) is a very relaxing, pleasant way to spend a day.  It is the pack up, set up, take down, and haul out that is exhausting.  Do all that at the end of a full work day and you have one VERY tired potter/math teacher.  

When I manage to find the energy to actually unpack the pieces of pottery that I didn't sell, I will take a look and think about what I might need to make more of before the October show.  In the mean time, I'm working on nut bowls.  (I really don't know what else to call them.)  The small bowl will sit inside the large, altered bowl.  If the small bowl holds nuts that are still in the shell, folks can drop the shells into the large bowl as they eat. That is kind of confusing, so I will try to remember to post a picture of the finished product in a few weeks.    

(And yes, I did steal the title for this post from Monty Python...)