I Could Have Sworn This Way The Right Way...Porcelain

What a productive day, even though I didn't get anything done that was on my list of "Things to Do". I had so much bisque work to glaze that I never got around to making anything. Glazing is every potters nemesis it seems. The form can be really great but the glaze makes or breaks it... So, from now on I am going to enjoy glazing, I need a change of attitude. I can change, I have done it unwillingly and willingly. Willingly is sooooo much easier. So, from now on I like to glaze, I like to glaze, I like to glaze.....

Oregon Fossil Found

Today we will study fossils - or not. I just wanted to show off the fossil my husband found on a little trip into Oregon. There is a spot along side of a 2 lane road frequented by big trucks near Vernonia, Oregon. It has a lot of fossils, just pull over and open up a chunk of rock (limestone?) and viola - fossils. It is almost that easy, really! Cool clam, huh?

Later we hunted for agates in Rock Creek, the water was absolutely clear, clear, clear and cold! The agates hid from me and I forgot my camera, just believe me, it was good. Vernonia is like stepping right back into the 1950's (pretty much)...the kids were swimming in the Nehalem, hunting crawdads, riding their bikes down main street, a lone police officer cruised around scolding them for not walking their bikes across the bridge. I am told that it is becoming a bedroom community for Portland, I didn't see it unless it means some scary looking people guarding a gate leading down a long straggly forested drive outside of town.

Oh, Vernonia's claim to fame is that they filmed the Johnny Cash movie, "Ring of Fire" there!

On The Wheel Again

The time has come to make some things that I want for myself. I threw some tumblers recently and I use them all the time now. In fact I don't really want to use anything else. They make me happy, I am a simple person I suppose but hey - simple works for me....in fact I strive for it! What I like is they way they fit my hand and how they are substantial and blue and I can feel the throwing rings and I signed them and, and, and.....

Cyber Visitors Welcome

I am always surprised when anyone visits my page here and I love to see comments, cyberspace is amazing and too wow sometimes. I fought even getting a computer until a few years ago because I knew I would become a wanna-be nerd. You see, I like to take things apart to see how they work. Things like telephones and vacuum cleaners, but I don't like to put them back together. So a few years ago we got a computer and I'm like a dog with a bone, can't give it up. These people that visit me must be even bigger wanna-be nerds because they know how to do things like put little gadgets into their blog and zipppp - takes you right over to another cyberspace room. When my mind is a little less cluttered with images of what I will throw on the wheel next I plan to investigate how to do that. The thing is, I can't read instructions very good, I just do it and see what happens. This has caused trouble in my life as you can imagine but there you go.

One thing about people coming to see me is that sometimes the house isn't clean, like my crabby blog post about Longview....

Beach Life

Well, some time ago the couple that owns a local bait and tackle shop said I should show them some of my fish. So today I took some to their shop; The Rusty Hook. It is a nice a large, clean shop with a friendly neighborhood atmosphere to it. Since I don't fish I hadn't been in it before and I think I have been missing a vital link to our community. They took all four fish that I had to show them and they will put them in the shop. I have no great expectations about sales; they are there on commission. That is fine with me, I just like to let the poor guys out of the house for a while! Joe, one of the owners has also asked me to make a large striper (hmmm, will try again!) and to put on it the name of the store....I can only try. I have found that fishermen (and women too) and very, very particular about the size, structure and color of the fish. Getting the right color is probably my biggest challenge.

I really dislike the marketing things....I would much rather be home making things than trying to sell them.

I was selected to participate in a holiday boutique, I just found out on Monday and I have ordered some extra supplies for that. I will be selling the tiles-trivets-installation accent tiles plus some great small clip-on watches that I assemble. They are for clipping onto handbags, backpacks, jeans loops, golf bags, etc. What is so good about this sale is that they do all of the selling, I just deliver the merchandise! YAY.....

Twisted Longview Washington

Longview, Washington.

Big Deal.

Little People.

Big Stink.

Longview Fibre.

Reynolds Metal.

Weyerhauser.

Many Other Stinky Polluting Industries.

The Original Town Without Pity.

Nice Face; Don't Look Too Deep.

Out on the Lawn

Since returning from a trip to my hometown I have been feeling just a little nostalgic. Parents are gone but I still have family there... The picture is me, I don't know why I am pointing at the ground, maybe I just got new shoes. The real question is why my mother would have to write my name on the photo.
My mother-in-law and I took a walk and she wanted me to take a picture of a sign with names on it about the history of Longview, WA. So I did, I don't know what I will ever do with it except put it on my blog tomorrow. Someone doing genealogy will happen across it and it will be their missing link perhaps!