I love having a smaller home.  I love how easy it is to clean and how low the utilities are.  But if you were to give me a little corner room for anything in the world, this would be it:

My grandma and dad recently combined all of their art supplies to make one very incredible pottery room.  I set the camera on the pottery wheel with the timer on to snap the above photo.

We decided to spend a couple hours glazing.  Glaze is the glass paint you see on your mugs and dishes.  It’s sort of like wet chalk when you put it on your artwork.  Of course we pulled out everything and made a big ol’ mess!

I had these butterflies and a couple of hearts to work on.  I made them a couple months ago, then they were fired.

But what I did mostly?  I just talked.  We all just talked.

My dad says, “Everything is always an experiment.” You don’t know how your art is going to turn out, so the best thing you can do is keep an open mind and open heart.  Just have fun!

It helps to look at life that way, too.  ;)

Here’s an experiment that worked!

I got to bring home a couple of big bowls I made on the wheel.  My dad glazed them for me so they could come home (surprise!), and now Martin has claimed the smaller one as his breakfast bowl.  It’s so much bigger than the bowls here.  The other one is just right for salads and side dishes.

I can’t wait to go back for another visit!

Although Martin’s a little suspicious about this “bad” weather that kept me from coming home last week…