My Wild Adventures of the Untamed Clay

     Well I survived my first midterm of the year..... I really hope I did well. But since the midterm was in the morning, after it was over I decided to go throw away my stress. Ha ha! My mom came up with that! I thought it was pretty funny :) Anyway after having a pretty bad time of it, I finally decided to just relax and enjoy it. I think the problem was that I was watching some throwing demos on YouTube and they make it look so darn easy!!!! And trust me it isn't all that easy, at least not without a ton of practice :p They just slap a ball of clay on the wheel and whoosh! They just pull it up into a fantastically perfect vase! So, after many failed attempts I decided to just save the bowls if they weren't turned into a collapsed heap of clay.

     The first one was pretty bad (I may just scrap it) it was all lopsided and I sat there for a while scowling at it, as if that would somehow shape up my rebellious bowl into something beautiful.....it didn't work. So I gave it another try, this bowl turned out quite lovely! So I tried to make a second one for a set of two. Well, it was going quite well and it was about the same shape and size as the first. Then I decided to use my wire to loose it from the wheel.... Ahhhhhgh! You see, when I started the wheel, one of the handles on my wire cutter got caught on the wheel and flew up and landed on my bowl cutting a nice big chunk out of the side. I decided to also move past this incidence and make another bowl. This one was amazing!!! Oh wow! I was so happy with it I figured that I could leave at that point ( I couldn't bring my self to just quit without having something amazing to show for). You can see the pictures below :) Yay!

Oh, and here is my latest roller stamp. Hooray for buttons!!