If Your To Do List Makes you Gag, Change it.

I forget my purpose from time to time.   I forget that I'm in a process of exploration.  Learning.  Discovery.  I'm on an adventure.

With my custom orders attended to, my list of "to dos" in the studio looked like this:

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TO DO: 

1. Make 40 Love Mugs for Mom

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I came down Monday morning last week and gagged.  I love Love Mugs.  They are selling great and are perfectly seasonal.  But the thought of sitting there all week doing the same thing over and over again gave me mental tendonitis.  

Why would anyone in their right mind do that by choice?  

Why would any artist do that by choice.

So, I edited my to do list so it looked like this:

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TO DO: 

1. Make 4 Love Mugs for Mom

2. Play

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So, here you are, a look at the fruits of my play-bor.

Fluted mug in a new glaze I've been playing with.

Splatter Scallop Bowl

Any idea what this is?

A yarn bowl.  The bottom is weighted to keep the bowl from tipping while you pull your yarn through the swirl.  And the bowl keeps your yarn from rolling all over the floor.

I played with Slip Trailing- which is basically clay lines applied with a squeeze bottle.

Butter Dish- Not perfect and a lot of work, but very cool.

6" Cake Stand

Balloon Vase

My four Love Mugs for Mom ;)

And even though I had some mishaps- I lost two large bowls in the bisque, a Love Mug for Mom in the glaze load and had some glaze issues on a sweet colander, the last couple weeks have been much more productive and artistically fulfilling than the factory style work I had laid out for myself.

So, now I am doing the fun process of pricing pieces and packing them up for the Rome Art Walk this weekend on Broad Street.  Come see me if you are in the area- I will have my wheel and all these pieces plus more.

But only four Love Mugs for Mom.

Love, Lisa