This is not a drill.
Aug. 18th, 2007 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterThis morning, as I lay in bed and considered my options of places to go and things to do, I was plagued with indecision. The idea of going to the farmer's market sounded great, but I don't really need anything there at the moment. I kind of want to go thrift-store shopping, but the process of deciding where to go and how to get there seemed to overwhelming.
So I did what any sensible person would do: I stayed home and took care of odds and ends around the house. One of the morning's projects involved working on a couple of ceramics pieces whose glaze had dripped from the bottom of the piece onto the kiln shelf. If chipped, these drips become quite sharp and dangerous--I cut myself pretty badly on one a while ago. So to smooth out the drips, I borrowed a dremel from D and spent an hour grinding down the rough edges. It was dangerous work, involving small pieces of glass shrapnel, and the effort involved is encouraging me to be more careful in applying glaze to my pieces in the future. The real trouble is that when I glaze items, I go for the shiny glazes, and of course these are the ones that tend to run more easily.
One of the difficult lessons one learns with ceramics is to not become too attached to one's pieces. There are so many steps from the initial creation to the finished product where things could go wrong or go in unexpected directions. For all of the pieces that turn out poorly, there are just as many beautiful surprises that emerge.
Well. Off for a haircut.
So I did what any sensible person would do: I stayed home and took care of odds and ends around the house. One of the morning's projects involved working on a couple of ceramics pieces whose glaze had dripped from the bottom of the piece onto the kiln shelf. If chipped, these drips become quite sharp and dangerous--I cut myself pretty badly on one a while ago. So to smooth out the drips, I borrowed a dremel from D and spent an hour grinding down the rough edges. It was dangerous work, involving small pieces of glass shrapnel, and the effort involved is encouraging me to be more careful in applying glaze to my pieces in the future. The real trouble is that when I glaze items, I go for the shiny glazes, and of course these are the ones that tend to run more easily.
One of the difficult lessons one learns with ceramics is to not become too attached to one's pieces. There are so many steps from the initial creation to the finished product where things could go wrong or go in unexpected directions. For all of the pieces that turn out poorly, there are just as many beautiful surprises that emerge.
Well. Off for a haircut.
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