Busy clay morning...

I got out my clay today and started playing with it. I made 2 pins, 2 vessels, and 3 keychains.

~One of the pins is round, textured (my first attempt at texturing) with a swirl in the middle.

~The other pin has 3 leaves on it that I will attempt to stain to bring out the veins on it.

~One vessel I started with a pod of white clay, and covered it with slices of a neon green and purple cane.

~The other vessel I made out of dark red clay and embellished it with texture and gold clay. (added handles to that one)

~The key chains are identical. I took the "volcano" idea and ran with it. I took black and neon orange, made one snake out of each color, cut them in half, twisted them together, cut them into three equal pieces and stuck holes in them length wise. I then made 6 black beads and 3 neon orange beads and am going to string them on that plastic stuff that I have way too much of.

I'm going to post the pics to the site tomorrow and probably take all the pricing off the site, and just use it as a gallery of my work for the time being. I found out that I can get a booth at my old church's annual bazaar for a really reasonable price, and I am going to try to sell things there. Its in November around Turkey day so Ellie will be nearly two months old...old enough to attend her first craft fair.

Anywho, I'm off to fire up the toaster oven!!

Hugs Karlee in Kansas

Hee hee the best part about this show is its INSIDE and there have already been a LOT of offers from TONS of grandmother types that I have known since I was little to watch the booth or the wee one if things get out of hand. My 16 year old cousin has offered to be on hand for just such a case, and my mom has even offered (this time I'll probably take her up on it, and of course, she is free to take baby around and show her off!)

Just a side note about the other mom thread....I don't hate my mother. Really. She enjoys taking kidlet the first on occasional weekends (it is *very* rare that I ever ask her to do it, she is the one asking to), and I don't have a problem with her wanting to watch kidlet the second at the craft fair if she wants to show her off, or if baby needs a diaper change. It will be impossible for her to feed the baby for a while, because I'm going to be strictly breastfeeding for the first few months, then I plan on combining in bottle feeding with breast milk. (believe it or not, this one isn't getting an argument) I will probably enjoy a little bit of a break during the show, and kidlet the first will probably go to my cousins house to play over there (said cousin just adores kidlet the first, she begs me to leave him with her, and has even come up to my house for a weekend to watch him while I was working and had no other sitter available. She is very very responsible, and refuses to let me pay her for her time). Yes, my mom needs to take a pill or find a Prozac salt lick on some things, but like anything else, I need to get her past the "its gotta be my way" thing of labor and delivery and she should be ok ... until she finds something else that she just HAS to be part of. DH and I are planning on having Ellie baptized at this church the same weekend as the fair, kill two birds with one stone. (Reason being, I was a member of that church until a couple years ago, it will always be "home" to me, and I want the same man that baptized kidlet the first to baptize Ellie)

I'm off to go play with my crafty things now...I want to be prepared for the show!!!

Karlee in Kansas