January 29, 2011
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Still Conditioning Clay...
Finished with 2 pre-conference workshops' clay conditioning and one conference workshop. Next one wants a large package each of white and of black. The white takes a lot of beating to get somewhat ready to condition. I think the black takes less, but only time will tell! It sure is mindless activity - kind of relaxing, actually, since I'm using an electric motor on my pasta machine.
Here's something I worked on for the Etsy PCAGOE team challenge:
She's sort of a butterfly goddess - the challenges was for critters with wings. But I'd made so much butterfly wing cane that I decided to use it up making butterfly cane. Thus:
This will become a clock called 'Butterflies and Marigolds'. This is the 'before sanding and buffing - just out of the oven' stage of the project. I also got a half dozen bookmarks out of the rest of this sheet of clay. Now to work on other uses for these butterflies!
My foot is healing reasonably well - I'm off the walker and able to drive, but have to wrap my foot in a plastic bag to go out of doors since it's snowing and all I'm allowed to wear on it is this silly sandel thing.
