Words, wool, daydreaming, cooking, crafts, and books (or do those count as “words” too?)
March historically has been a challenging month. So, I’m trying to think of a way to cheer things up, and then I realized, maybe I could “shoot” a rainbow during one week.
Beginning with Sunday next week, I’ll try to get one color of the rainbow in a photo. If the weather cooperates and the cats don’t interrupt, we’ll see what I post. If you feel like taking on the challenge, then let me know. The first color I’m thinking about is Red, and then Monday will be Yellow.
Sometimes, you need a little dose of color to cure the winter blahs. We’ve been having such a mild winter, it seems ridiculous to admit it — but I’m feeling kind of “blah” this month. Maybe I need a snowfilled landscape to feel like I’m living in and through winter (instead of waiting for it to start).
If you feel blah or blue about the weather, museums offer little pick-me-ups of color. Like Tiffany columns tucked in a corner, glowing like fantastical mixes of Egyptian and Roman art (with a bit of Mardi-gras style thrown in). Lovely. Having a sunny day was lovelier though.
Hope your spring blooms are coming up slowly, and you have time to enjoy the seasons changing. I know other parts of North America have been shoveling out. Around here, not so much. It’s just dingy grey a lot of the time.
1 Item sent to the bisque shelf — hopefully the edging I put on it will make it less Black Cauldron worthy.
I also learned to use a hump mold, after making slabs on the slab roller and decorating the slabs with stamps created in an earlier class.
I think this could get to be an expensive hobby. (ooh, look plaster sprig molds for making your own ferns or your own trout reliefs to decorate clay tiles, etc.) You can make templates from everything, including cutting up a paper coffee cup from a certain large coffeeshop chain… cut on the seams, flatten the sides so you can cut around it… and hey presto a cup template.
There are ways to re-use clay if you despise what you’ve created (at least up until the firing). I’m hoping someday to be around when they fire up the wood kiln, because that looks pretty cool. At least this lets me connect with something other than work, until it gets later lighter, so I see something other than a dark highway to and from work.
I’m off making mud pies… well, actually it’s a clay class.
Unfortunately for me, my first effort looks rather like a blonde version of the cauldron in Lloyd Alexander’s The Black Cauldron.
So, now I contemplate if I should fire it in the kiln and see if trying cool glazes will make me think less of it as an interesting exercise.
And… I’m making more mud pies. Maybe pictures once something is done.
Virtual sweets for everyone! I hope you have a happy day.
I only saw one bluebird, but the camera saw more. Bluebirds are a lovely reminder Spring isn’t far off — don’t lose hope. Around here where it’s warmer, they seem to winter over.
Each of the birds in this tree were following each other around the arboretum. It does make me wonder what their habits were like before their numbers were felled by loss of habitat. Family members have mentioned they remember large groups of bluebirds flying over the Great Lakes for the summers, back in the 50s. I have seen around 8 bluebirds flying in a group together, and it was quite startling, since they’re really blue.
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