I have a floor again. At least one that doesn’t have a top-coating of silicosis waiting to happen. I have some newly acquired surface space which has been leased out temporarily to some pasta bowls to go along with those soup bowls and lunch plates for an order.

I still would like to make a few more mugs today so I might try and sit down at the wheel during the debate…or shortly afterwards while all of the blabbering happens on the cable channels.

Here are some of the pasta bowls..version 1. I’m going to make a different version of them tomorrow without the flared rim and see how I like them.  More importantly see how what the clients think. 

And, here are some of the mugs that are going to cost a little more.  I’m really pleased with how they’re looking.  They are all squared and have white slip and some incised slip decorations.  I really like how they’re sitting on top of each other and I’ll at least photograph a few of them that way when they’re done…perhaps even display some like that….a little pretentious probably but I like how the designs and form work together like that.  Perhaps I’ll have to make some vases with these shapes.  

It’s time to get back to work.

We had a great time in NY. Unfortunately, I didn’t make it to any of the pottery shows. I think there should still be some shows up when we get back to my folks for Thanksgiving. Between heading into NYC on Friday and spending the rest of the weekend watching our kids and all of their cousins run around time moved a little quicker than I had planned. We did get to go apple picking on the ride home as we passed through Guilford, CT.

I started to clean up the studio yesterday but it sort of became a settling back in at home and carpooling day. Luckily…or unluckily, I had the pleasure of driving three 4 year olds and one 17 month old home from pre-school yesterday while the “Barbie Girl” song was blasting from the radio.

So, back to the studio today…hopefully by mid-morning. It’s morning playtime with Clarita and she’ll head down for a nap around 10. I have some more cleaning to do….especially getting the studio floor vacuumed. At this point I’m not sure whether the floor or my lungs have more dust on them. Then it’s time to make the pasta bowls for an order. If there’s enough time left in the day I’ll finish up some mugs and get a list done of the final pots made. I want to try a few more pots as this cycle winds down. CraftBoston is coming up in about a month. I’ll need to have enough pots done for that as well as the Trunk Show down in Rye during Thanksgiving Weekend.

Well….back to Clarita and then it’s back to the studio….or at least that’s the plan as of now.

Congrats everybody…seriously! All of the interest over at Ayumi’s site was crashing her servers!

If you haven’t already signed up for info about the Obamaware sale you might have missed the email I just got about the sale moving to ebay.

Here’s the email.

Sign up on Ayumi’s site to make sure you’re alerted to the auction starting.

¡Si Se Puede!
Yes We Can!

Don’t forget to check out Ayumi’s sale tomorrow….and more importantly…don’t forget to vote. And talk to as many people as you can about this election. I know we’re reaching…or might be well past the point of overload but this election matters….it really matters.

We’re taking off a little early for Columbus Day Weekend.  Javi’s school has a teacher conference day tomorrow so we get a 4 day weekend out of the Monday holiday.

Don’t forget to sign up on Ayumi’s website.  The sale starts in a few days.  Get some pottery…support Obama and an artist at the same time.   Sounds like a good thing to me.

My grandfather started worrying about the national debt before most people gave any thought to it. To let people know how big a problem it is for our country to carry such a large debt he put up the National Debt Clock in NYC way back when I was in middle school.

The clock has now become the visual for any news story discussing the economy. Unfortunately, the clock needs a little work.  The growing national debt has added a digit to the debt.  The clock wasn’t quite ready for that.  

I was having a political discussion/argument last weekend with someone and we were discussing the bailout. My friend said the combo of the bailout and continuing to spend $10 billion a month in Iraq is okay because obviously we have the money. The thing that my grandfather understood and that I think most of the country now realizes is that we don’t have the money. It’s not sitting somewhere within the government waiting to be used. We’re borrowing it….from other countries, from private foreign investors and from the next few generations.  Let’s hope one day we’ll get to see my grandfather’s clock start counting backwards again.

Well…it’s more of a link.  

It's so rainy here that I think my plates gained water since I threw
them last night. Time to check on those bowls.