Status: Packing Stage 2

I started in on some kitchen items yesterday. Tonight I think I'll work on more of the fiddly small ceramics and such.

While in Arizona, scrottie really wanted to obtain a bulk order of organic black beans from Crooked Sky Farms. Several months and eleventy-billion text messages later and we're finally beaned. Emma approves.



For randomdreams: here's the kind of salsa that S loves, which I suspect has to be recreated fresh to attain the same flavor. I'm thinking maybe I could just try making up my own recipe, with oodles and oodles of peppers. S was semi-maniacally talking about buying a huge amount of it and then canning it.



We had our last ceramics class last night. Once again I'm sad to be leaving that behind again, but grateful to have had the chance to stick my hands in clay for a while. I've made notes about a couple of potential ceramics places in Albany; we shall see.

They'd done another glaze firing, so I got to bring home several pieces. However, the majority of my pieces from this session were still sitting on the glaze cart, waiting to be glaze-fired. Thankfully the good people who are running the studio were willing to expedite my remaining 7 or 8 pieces so I don't have to lean on other people to pick them up, pack them, and ship them to me.

This bowl came out fabulously:




Mom: don't look at what's under the cut if you want gifts to remain a surprise.

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