Busy Weekend…
I’ve had a little bit of an online sales drought the past few months. Could it be because I’ve had a scarcity of new work? I’ve been working so much at my daughter’s school as a sub, that I’ve had little energy at the end of the day to create in my studio. A good bit of the time, I’ve been filling in as a special education para-professional since the beginning of school working one on one with a delightful young girl. Yesterday, I had a bit of good news - it looks like a full time person has been hired to fill the position permanently. I will still be filling in as needed for teachers, but expect my sub assignments to be more sporadic in the near future.
It’s perfect for me now that my clay class has been approved and I can concentrate on getting back to work in the studio doing what I love. I already have 5 students signed up for my class with a lot of verbal interest from parents and guardians. I’m shopping for my class supplies right now and have begun writing my lesson plans for the class. I can hardly wait and am excited about working with young people who, no doubt will inspire me with their creativitiy.
Meanwhile, I sold the above House Tile Trio above. It’s one of my favorite pieces and a direction that I’m going to pursue more now that I’ll have more time. I’d like to work on designing some images to make my own screen printed ceramic decals and might even introduce this to my students - maybe next round of classes.
Yesterday evening, I picked up my packet for the Denver Marathon that will take place tomorrow morning at 8:00am. I had been training for the 1/2 marathon with Denver Fit, but was asked to pinch hit on an ING Relay Team 2 weeks ago. You may remember that my husband works for ING and is on the marathon planning committee at work. He’s not a runner so he asked me and since my training isn’t what it was last year, I gladly agreed to run 6 miles instead of 13.2. I did some 10 mile training runs in this past summer and early fall - but no where near the 13 that would make me feel more comfortable running the distance. Those last 4-5 miles are the toughest too. So, I plan to go all out and see if I can beat my last 10K time.
I’m running the first leg, so think of me around 8am while you are enjoying your cup of joe reading the Sunday paper! The first leg is my favorite too - it’s through downtown and past Coors Field - Go Rockies!!! It’s so cool to run in the middle of the streets downtown, which are otherwise dangerous and packed with traffic.
Hope everyone has a great weekend,
~Cynthia
