Mishaps!

Studio work can be tricky sometimes.  Like moving bone dry work from one area to another OR kiln loading can occasionally end with in mishap.  Knowing this is precisely why my husband is ban from my clay studio space.  He has a fantastic way of putting his finger through something that has just come off the wheel or apply to much pressure when picking up the fragile bone dry work that is awaiting the kiln loading and having it crumble right in his hands.   Knowing full well he, (or any other culprit), does not mean to damage the work in hand, but wishing all the while they would just leave things alone.  It is hard enough not to make my own blunders altering a piece of work right into recycle bin.  Too often curiosity just wins over. My latest casualty  at the hands of another culprit is my porcelain carved plate a work I will definitely have to replicate.  Honestly I do need the practice on plates and there is no better time than now.  -Regi

Push has come to SHOVE!

Back off, slow down, don't wanna have too much to move. That is what my logical mind told me.  NO, No, no: WRONG is what a trusted adviser told me!  "You need to arrive LOADED with fun, imaginative and new work for the ready".  Once it was put out there it did make so much more sense to me.  Although now I feel like I am way behind on the jump.  So with push come to shove: I am changing mode again now resorting to make room for the wheel and making my wish list for the supply run next week, all the while I am going over and over the sketches I have been diligently making not to loose these thoughts along the way of a year packing clearing out the closets.  I cannot wait!!!!  It has been weeks.  I miss the smell of the clay! I am so excited and I am gonna get started with the 100 mug challenge!  While I make some needed new clay tools for impressions and patterns! A perfect way to resume work I think!  -Regi

Push

Some times in life we get comfortable.  We go to the closest grocery not because it is the one we like to shop in but it is close and we are saving in gas, right?  Or we get into a routine in our work that just follows a pattern of doing , or worse yet shadowing someone else's  doing and not really taking on our own.  This can be playing it safe in so many ways, especially in art and creativity. Some times we need that push.  That nudge to get things moving in ones own direction.  It is not always an easy thing to take though.  It can come as a shock, or a jolt.  However it has showed up for me over the years it never stops me from taking a look at where I am at present and making changes where needed.  In my creative life there have been several changes over this past year.  Some changes were of my own doing, some as a need to get out routine that suddenly showed up as a rut.  And although change can be hard and transitions are not always quick, I am sitting  mid-swing of some of the bigger changes and it feels like I am heading in a good direction.  Slowing down in some production was a very hard choice to make for right now but I think this time next year I will appreciate the choice and be ready to relocate and set up a new and make some new things happen.  Thanks for the push and here is to the future! -Regi