Blast from the Past

Who would have thought my pest problem would be so interesting? Here is yet another blog post inspired from the monsters living in my sótano!

One of my first ever mugs

Well, when my exterminator came back to check on the wildlife in my basement, he commented about how my storage boxes were great attractors for pests. Especially since I get water in the basement and the cardboard boxes had repeatedly gotten wet (and no one had kicked me in the butt to move them to the new shelving Eric put up for me down there).

He told me I needed to get some new boxes and someone from the company would help me if I was scared since there might be pests in the boxes. Luckily, I had plenty of plastic storage containers from all the festivals I have had to transport pots to and from in so I said, how about now? So, the faithful exterminator and I transfered a good bit of my memorabilia from my younger days from yucky soggy boxes to safe, clean containers and laughed for about an hour at the findings. I mean, who knew I won first place in the Jingle Bell Jog 5k in 2001 in the 15-19 females category?! Can't throw that away!

One such box contained pottery from my first semester of throwing and of hand-building. It was too funny! Check out the mug above. Probably can't fit much drink into that or more than one finger in the handle. Love it! It was a 2005 creation.

Slab built box from 2003

This snazzy piece circa 2003 is from my hand-building class for our slab/boxes project. I had to roll out big flat pieces of clay and then assemble them into a box like product. I thought my design on top was especially fabulous.

The pieces were way too cool and totally worth saving- I just need a bigger place to display it all!