MICE & MEN

I am sure every potter can relate to this, I had intended to do a pottery-free day on Sunday, run some errands, close-up the A/C unit outdoors and some other misc. house stuff only to wake up to an email that changed some of my planning. The email was from a couple who had a cat induced accident and asked if it were possible to make a replacement lid for a covered jar which to be honest is never my favorite task. I agreed and decided to thrown two lids and knobs with about .5cm difference in size but before I could even get down to the studio, I realized that I needed four more terra cotta bowls for a gallery order so now I was going to make six pieces. 

After a late breakfast/ brunch and a quick trip to run some errands I went into the studio and made the two replacement lids and four 3lbs bowls which then turned into making up 2000gr of white slip and 2000gr of black for the terra cotta pieces. What should have been a thirty minute project turned into over two hours after the throwing, slip mixing and decorating four blanks, also in terra cotta screaming at me from the shelf, "paint me, paint me now".  So much for "the best laid plans of mice and men" as the lure of a studio just feet away from the comfy couch and TV, just seems to win out just like the siren's call to the men of Odysseus's ship and crew*. 

(*Was that a bit too overstated there?)