Arts on the Square

One day I'm going to manage to include information about a show before it happens.  Today is not that day.  

Yesterday was the tenth annual Arts on the Square.  Here's a picture that Jeff took early yesterday morning. Yes, I am eating breakfast back there.  No, you may not have a bite. 

  

This art show is sponsored by Buffalo Creek Gallery, so I would be there all day working anyway.  I figure that I might as well bring some pottery.  Honestly I question that decision sometimes.  It is a lot of work to get to a show.  For me, it is a struggle to figure out what I'm going to take.  It's not just pottery. A tent, tables, drapes, shelves, chairs, and snacks and drinks must be planned out and loaded up.  

I started with tables, drapes, and shelves first.  Set them up in the gallery and then worked on figuring out what pots would go.  Most of what I took came out of the last firing, but I did pull a few items from the gallery to fill up the display.

Then all the pots went in banana boxes (the best boxes for hauling pottery around), and everything got loaded up in the Explorer.  That last sentence kind of sounds like it magically happened and I just watched.  Not so.  I packed all the pots in boxes, and loaded the boxes and everything else in the vehicle.  Then Saturday morning, I had help unloading and setting up and then packing up and loading up at the end of the day.  One hopes to have significantly less to pack up at the end of the day, but this was not really the case for me this time.  Oh well, it was a very nice day otherwise.

There were a couple of things that I was especially pleased with from the last glaze fire. Here are some closer up shots.

Cookie jar with a frog.  The inside of this jar is a dark green.

Remember the communion sets I made a few weeks ago.  All the pieces lived!  I want to get some feedback from people who know about communion sets before I do more, but I will do more.  Yay!