#eirenical's adventures in pottery

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10, 14, and 39?

silk - do you like k-pop?

I don't dislike it? But I don't really follow it or anything, either.

buttery - favorite snack?

...is it weird to say I don't know? O_o;;; Like, I generally go through a few weeks where there's exactly one snack I want, then I don't eat it again for months as I move on to the next snack. I don't really have one consistent favorite. Though currently I'm enjoying American cheese and apples? (Not together, just those two snacks. XD) And toast with butter. (I should clarify, it's specifically this sprouted barley bread that I found at my local supermarket that is AMAZING and I'm obsessed. *_*)

sweetheart - favorite mug/cup?

OK SO. THESE ALSO ROTATE AND I HOPE I HAVE PICTURES SOMEWHERE BUT. I AM SO MUG OBSESSED. 😁😁😁

So I have five current favorites that I'm rotating between.

One is a Weilan mug of chibi-fied versions of them enacting the angry handkerchief scene (from taobao).

One is a mug with Xiaoge surrounded by little gold fish that ARE JUST PRETTY AND HAVE NO MEANING WHATSOEVER.

One is a really sweet Pingxie kiss.

(Those last two are by @deboracabral and can be found on her redbubble -- you'll find the link on her blog's pinned post.)

And the other two are mugs I made myself that have my newest favorite glaze pattern on them. ^_^ (And yes, I made the little plate, too. ^_^)

AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU ASKED? XD

[If anyone else would like to send an ask, here they are! ^_^]

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*peeks*  ...hi?  ^_^  I know I haven’t been around much lately, but I’ve been busy settling into the new school semester and doing RL things.  Still doing pottery class every week (and I have some new pieces coming out of the kilns this week that I’m SUPER excited about ^_^). 

As of last Sunday, I’m officially part of a choir again for the first time in a couple of years, too, so that’s pretty cool.  ^_^  I’ve also been reading a lot and doing the occasional crafty thing.

In short, I’ve been working, hibernating, and trying to reconnect with my creative side.  And I’ve been finding that that’s much, much easier, when I’m not stressing about keeping up a tumblr queue every day.  And it seems to be working, because for the first time in a long time, I’m starting to get the writing itch, again.  So, I’m going to baby that and try to nurture it along, and if I do that right, then maybe there will be some fic updates coming your way in February and March.  ^_~

I do miss you all, though, and I hope you’ve been well, and once I’m settled in a little, maybe I’ll start being a little more present.  ^_^

Also, as a bonus, for anyone into that kind of thing, I’m doing free single card tarot readings over in my IG stories today, so you’re welcome to jump on over and ask questions there or send me questions via ask or messenger on tumblr, if you prefer. ^_^

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HI, GUYS. ^_^ I keep not posting pictures of pottery things because I keep not getting good pictures and being too lazy to take new ones, but today’s pictures came out decent, so I thought this was as good a time as any to post some of my more recent work. ^_^

1,2,3,4) My newest mugs to come out of the glaze kiln! :D I am OBSESSED with this glazing pattern and actually just did it on two more pieces I glazed today. ^_^ Still working on finding a handle shape that I love, but at least I’m getting closer.

5,6,7) One of my biggest challenges in pottery has been, believe it or not, my eyes. :P I have a visual disability that prevents my eyes from truly fusing images. This fucks with my depth perception. Now... for 90% of the things I do, this makes no difference whatsoever. It basically means that I can't use a binocular microscope (...or binoculars, for that matter) and I'm abysmal at playing catch. So, it didn't occur to me that the reason I was struggling so hard to get my walls even was because of that depth perception issue until like... 4 months into this? OTZ And when I did, I had no idea what to do about it. So, I asked my teacher for help, explaining that I could FEEL when something was off, but couldn't SEE it and that when I tried, to see it, I always ended up screwing it up worse. Her suggestion? Try closing my eyes. :D I mean... WHAT A GREAT SUGGESTION. If your fingers are more adept than your eyes and your eyes are feeding you crap information... ignore your eyes. XD I have had SUCH better pulls since I started doing that, I can't even tell you. So, now THE POINT. Today was our last class for the session, so our teacher had us do a special challenge: a blindfold challenge. This was the piece I threw. NOT TOO SHABBY FOR BEING BLINDFOLDED FROM START TO FINISH, EH?? XD

8) Last but not least, my math lab friends and I had our winter party last Monday and my boss decided that instead of going to lunch or dinner, we'd do something fun. We went to a pain bar! :D  There's an instructor there to walk you through the whole thing, and at the end, you get to take your painting home. (Of course, the whole time we're doing this, I have Bob Ross' voice in my head saying, "Happy little trees!" ;D) Anyway, it was a lot of fun, and I hope we get to do it again someday. ^_^

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I had every intention of doing some writing tonight, at the very least answering the trope mashup headcanon prompts I still had left. But I spent the morning wheel throwing (the three on the round bats are mine ^_^) and the afternoon building a set of drawers with my dad and my entire body is busy letting me know how much it does NOT approve of any of this. Oops. XD

So, I think I will spend my evening curled up with my cat, some tea, and a book, instead. Hope you're all well! ^_^

And I'm still taking prompts for the trope mash up meme, if anyone wants to send any. ^_^ ( https://eirenical.tumblr.com/post/181883497502/fanfiction-trope-mash-up )

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missmarionmac replied to your post: To-do...

*grabs pom-poms* I believe in you!!! Also, POTTERY CLASS?????????

Thank you! :D

And... did I not mention that I had taken a pottery class over the summer?  Because I did, and it was AWESOME.  So I signed up again for the fall.  ^_^  And it starts this week.  :D

Here are some photos in terrible lighting that someday I will replace with better photos:

^_^  And this is less than half of what I made over the summer.  There are more!

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@takethewatch replied to your post “…”

Oh that's awesome, good for you! I'd been thinking of doing that too, maybe I should look up some classes!

I AM STILL SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS.  XD  Seriously, I’ve wanted to take a pottery class FOREVER.  And not only do you have the class once a week, but you have free studio time THREE TIMES a week, which you are really encouraged to do, because practice practice practice, so I’ll get to come in and play with the clay and the wheels and the glazes and EVERYTHING like... four times a week if I want to.  ^______^  I am just really, really, really excited.  And in the meantime, I’ll be starting my garden soon and just... basically I’m planning to marinate myself in some form of earth all spring and summer.  XD

THAT REMINDS ME, I GOT MY TOPSOIL FINALLY.  I SHOULD MAKE A POST ABOUT THAT.  I WILL DO IT AFTER DINNER.  BUT IT’S SO PRETTY AND DARK AND RICH AND I CAN’T WAIT TO PLANT THINGS IN IT.

*coughs*  Sorry.  Got a little overexcited.  ^_~

Anyway, you SHOULD totally look up classes!  Then we can squee about pottery things at each other all summer!  :D  ^_________^  :D