Sole Plates

May 2009 - This is an easy fun project for kids and novice potters. Roll slab (any size), impress with interesting textures, including the soles of shoes, place slab on piece of foam (upholstery foam works great), center a block of wood or other rigid surface on top of the slab, press down firmly to create the rim of the plate. Adapted from "Plate-O-Matic", Pottery Making Illustrated, June 2008.

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This post marks the end of my after school clay class and is the last project that we made.  We met for the very last time on Tuesday, May 19th – a fact that makes me a little sad, but also happy in that my future holds different opportunities now.  I haven’t been as attentive to blogging as my routine normally dictates.  Lots of little activities are interrupting the flow of my schedule – parties, field trips, ceremonies and finally the school comes to an abrupt halt on Friday at 10am when my daughter will collect her 5th grade “continuation” certificate in a final ceremony.  I don’t know about her but, I’m excited for the future (both hers and mine).

Meanwhile, I’ve been reading up a storm.  I am attempting to do all the recreational reading that I can stand before school starts for me mid-August since I know that everything I read after August 16th will most likely be landscape/ecology related .  I just finished The Handmaid’s Tale and Falling Angels this week and am looking for a few more good reads.  I have Pollan’s Botany of Desire and What is the What and by Dave Eggers at the ready right now.

Read anything good lately?

Cynthia