Throwing Pots week two

Week two had us at Rookery for dinner http://www.rookerymacon.com


Their burgers are GREAT and the battered fries are really worth it. Definitely worth going back again.

Then off with full bellies to throw some pots!


Lizzie and Leigh Ann working the clay!


Putting some serious work into getting that pot off the wheel!!


Happily starting a new effort ;)


Marking pots from last week!! Leigh Ann and I took this picture...


The looks I get when I take pictures. Bwahahaha!!


My two pots from this week and my two pots from last week in the back. The cylinder was the goal this week. The one on the left the teacher walked me through. The one in the right I attempted to “shape”. It didn’t work as well as I hoped but it was saved regardless!

Next week I will work on making a mug cylinder. This one was too big to be considered a mug!

First attempt at pour art

While Angela was here she and I made a first attempt at pour art. Monday I dropped by Michaels and picked up paint and canvases. The main goal was to make an art piece for Liz’s apartment. Thus the color choices of oranges, blues and gold. Note the cookie cooking racks and the HUGE black garbage bag AND I used my crappy noodles that were falling apart to create my paint pan! Worked like a charm!


There’s gold in there? Yep. There is gold in there.


Shiny GOLD in there.


And lots of fun swirls and bubbles.
BUT Liz said it’s too dark. Ok fair enough. So she will be coming over to work on another one with me. Good thing I got a two pack of canvases!

Sunday Family Dinner and other things

Sunday dinner was moved to Saturday brunch so we could have Angela with us. Angela came down to go with Liz to her tattoo appointment in Charleston South Carolina.

We chose to go to Dovetail (http://www.dovetailmacon.com ) for Brunch that turned into lunch as we were there at noon. It was pricey but so good. Liz has all the good pictures on her phone.

One was this:


They were yummy!!

She took pictures of food but didn’t post them. Dang her!!

Butch took this photo.


Are you seeing a trend here? I’m a slug when it comes to photos! I forget and just enjoy the moments. It’s just not worth it anymore to stop the moment to get a picture!

So! The food was DELICIOUS. I got a breakfast bowl with Smokey cheese grits (found out after that it was made with their pimento cheese) with ham and potatoes on top. It was Yummy but a LOT of food as we ordered biscuits prior too.

The biscuits were four tiny ones but you got some with garlic and cheese and some plain (we actually split the order in request) BUT you got pimento cheese with the garlic cheese and a bourbon and bacon infused butter with the plain ones as wee as honey and some berry jelly. All of it was YUM!!

When that was done we walked back to Liz’s place and said our goodbyes so they could get on the road.

I thought I was going to be sly and get to go to 7th Street Salvage... but they weren’t open. Dang it!!

Sunday I had my crockpot party. Honestly it was Barbara and I getting together to put together five meals from my plans I had on hand. Again no pictures. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I NEED to get better at taking pictures. We got it all together, BUT I messed up in one of the measurements and only got 1/2 the sweet potatoes needed. Whoops!! No biggie. We substituted regular potatoes instead ;). Mission rescued. BUT my kitchen is so clean and uncluttered that even Angela commented on it when she got home from South Carolina!

So. Liz’s tattoo. I have yet to see it in person as she found out that it can’t be visible at work - good thing she got it on her bicep, eh? 3/4 or long sleeves for her at this job. Sigh. Kids. Permanent decisions. She seems quite pleased with it.
Here is what it looks like.


It’s a nod to my Audrey (Stoma) blue ribbon for colon cancer and even has a hidden semicolon in there.

I’m still not thrilled she has a tattoo, but it’s her body, her choice. And it’s pretty color wise.