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April Create Date Do-over Update

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As you may recall, our April Create Date was a frustrating and unsuccessful pottery night. Because of the generosity of the owner of Bareclay Studio, we were able to give it another shot at the end of June.

Keith ended up coming but not working for very long because he wasn’t feeling very well. He still sat with me while I worked even though he could have driven himself home as we had driven separately. I made the interesting discovery that I throw pottery left-handed. I chose the wheel next to Keith, and after I was finished with my first piece, the instructor made some comment about me being left handed. I told her that was not the case, but I am ambidextrous at some tasks. I was able to pretty quickly get two pieces that we liked ready to be glazed and fired in the kiln.

I patiently waited about a month to email and make sure that our bowls were ready to be picked up. I got to pick them up this week, and you guys, I am so glad we revisited this create date! I love how these bowls turned out – they fit right in on our Create mantel display! I am so glad I accidentally found out that I throw pottery left-handed – we may want to try this again sometime! Thank you so much to Bareclay Studio for giving us the second chance to make something we love.

April Create Date

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I’m not going to lie, this month’s Create Date was hard! And not just the pottery part. You guys, we had so. many. plans. fall. through. this. month. Originally, we were signed up to do a class at the Ohio Herb Center that would let us make beard oil and some skin care things for Keith. It sounded so cool, but apparently they had low enrollment, so it was canceled. Then, we tried a Bonsai event at Franklin Park Conservatory, but it turned out to be less a class and more a club meeting. Bummer! We were going to get up and do an open workshop for My Very Own Blanket, an organization that gives blankets to kids in foster care situations, but it ended up not fitting with everything else we needed to do that day. We tried to go paint pottery, but they didn’t really have the things we were interested in painting in stock and one of us was more comfortable with painting than the other, so it wasn’t a good fit. There was a class we could do over the weekend, but Keith would have been distracted by his upcoming call-back for a play he was auditioning for, so we decided to wait. So, it really all came down to Try It Tuesday at Bareclay studio on April 30th. Talking about squeezing it in at the last minute!

We arrived at Bareclay, and after a brief explanation from our instructor, Sophia, we were set loose with our pottery wheels. This is not easy folks! It is super difficult and I really, really struggled to make a piece that I even wanted to have them fire and glaze. I think a little more instruction might have helped, but it may be that I am just not a potter. We will be giving it another go in June thanks to the owner of the studio taking pity on me, so I will let you all know.

It was not my favorite create date, but I am really glad we tried it. I can’t wait to see if our pieces turn out well. I will add finished photos in a couple weeks when we get our pieces back.