What I Do In Ceramics

Piece 1) Already fired for the first time....who knows maybe a creamer?

Piece 2) Cereal bowl still drying...much bigger than it looks.

Piece 3) Another bowl I decorated, it's waiting to be fired in the kiln. I'm not sure if it will turn out or not because the two clays used are at different firing temperatures. More or less it is my gamble piece.

Piece 4) This I threw on the wheel tonight....still needs to dry, be trimmed and have a handle put on it, but maybe a small pitcher?

Piece 5) My coffee mug:) This pic is hard to see, but it has leaf imprints on it and a nice handle if i do say so.

There are so many other pics i want to share but thats all i have space for here....

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I Love Fall

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Major Updates

I realize that its been something like 2 months since I've written a blog. In that time I've managed to change my major -now art, plan a jan-term trip to Central Europe - Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czech and pick up a job as the new art assistant and gallery docent. So far I am loving the new major and job. I can't wait for my trip in January sooooo today I busted out the new digital camera my mom had and put it to good use. I need to practice for this trip right???
There were 4, possibly 5, hot air balloons tonight. I forgot how much I liked them!

This was actually taken at night. Pretty cool I think.


The leaves are changing!

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Redeem Team

Congratulations to all of the athletes who competed in the olympics this year. I'd like to give a special shout out to the Redeem Team who won gold! Click here for what I thought was a cool commercial.
P.S. Well sung Marvin Gaye

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Sails

This is simply a painting that I see quite frequently at Manchester College hanging in the lobby of Cordier Auditorium. I really like it so I thought maybe others would too. Enjoy.

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Leprechauns Are Bald

Has anyone else ever noticed that the Notre Dame leprechaun is bald? I can't believe I never noticed it until now...I guess this means all of the students chosen as the leprechaun for ND should actually be bald. It is never going to happen and I am alright with that.

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A Chicago Tale

This is about a week overdue, but here it goes...It SEEMS the g/f thought it would be funny if she shared my innocent mistake about the Cubs tickets. Check it out if you haven't already. I have a story of my own....Char and I were sitting in our seats, all excited for the game, having a good time when it was time for the national anthem. Char turned towards me and said, Take Me Out to the ballgame and pointed to the guy out on the infield. I just smiled (maybe laughed?) and said nooo it's the national anthem. She played it off real well and when the 7th inning stretch came along, we both sang it. The guitar player from Rise Against the Machines was the guest singer. Hopefully that is close enough to how it "really happened." A few pics...

How can you not laugh at this picture?

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