All Fired Up Ceramics and Pottery Shop: May 2011

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Waddle Pots, M&M Dudes, and Little Pumpkins, Oh, My!

Currently I'm taking orders for these....the Waddle Pot is $25, which pays for shipping and handling. The M&MDudes are $5/ea. or a set of 5 for $20...the colors are Red, Blue, Orange, Green, & Yellow....the Brown just didn't look right to me! The Little Pumpkins are $3/ea. or 4/$10...they are ALL customizable....any color legs and arm pipe cleaners, hands can be painted any color, and the shoes can also be painted whatever color, along with eyes. On the Waddle Pot, whatever the eye color you want, and if you want the toenails painted, otherwise they'll have a whitewash over top of the toenails. The Waddle Pot is painted and glazed on the inside, also waterproofed so you can plant plants in there!

Celebrate Clayton

This year I was able to participate in the Celebrate Clayton...have wanted to do that ever since we moved to Georgia, but never had confidence in anything enough to do it. Then the ceramics shop happened to me and I found I loved making my own pieces look special in their own way. An author will tell you that they can have the outline of a book all set and ready to go, but the characters take over and write it instead. (Diana Palmer wrote that once, and I agree with her, as my characters take mine on a different avenue than I expect.) I've seen on some of my ceramic molds the "suggested" way you paint them, and they're very nicely done...it's like a paint by number, which I loved to do when I was a kid, and still do from time to time. Instead, I let the object tell me, and some of the time it can be good and sometime it can look really bad and it's a "do-over". Not many times that's happened, though! Maybe some should! Anyhow, after entering it, I found out on the night we were sitting up, that I needed a tent and tables...we were very lucky on that front!!!!! Thank you Troy!!!!!! Danny and Amber helped me set things up until 11:30 that night..I came home and started painting and woke up on the counter at almost 2 in the morning. Was up at 6:30 getting ready and out of the house by 7:45, with boxes loaded in the back of the truck. I set things up and was excited about showing certain people that ceramics can sell!!!!! Ya'll know who you are!! I painted while the festival went on, and it made the time fly fast. Sunday was slower, but still sold some things...all in all ended up $20 in the hole, but I'd rather do that than sit at home and wonder whether it would've been a success! Can't wait till next year!