Dinah Snipes Steveni on mon 20 dec 10
I like Barbara Brown's suggestion. Does anyone make kiln god for a firing =
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anymore? I'd forgotten about this. I think I'll go with this practice again=
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in the New Year. And thanks, James Freeman, for giving me the correct spel=
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ling of Dalek! I was in full flow and didn't want to break off to Google Dr=
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Who....By the by, there's an interesting Call from crafthaus.ning.com on =
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Humor in Craft a book with March deadline. Now that's a topic for the Aesth=
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etics 101 crowd lately bandying about Rafael and Duchamp oeuvre. Brings up =
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all those horrid twee little signs in gardens: Go Ahead and Pick the Weeds.=
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..they're Free. Or those ceramic boots by the front door. Well, they're one=
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step down from Garden Gnomes. LOL, pun intended. And I leave you with vari=
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ous images: the mug with the handle attached inside, or the silly gurning f=
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aced mugs which actually have an interesting tradition from a southern pott=
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ery which used to decorate jugs I believe. Probably based on Tobey jugs or =
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work from The Martin Brothers in UK. I had a UK chum who was also a teacher=
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. At the staff room at break or lunch, he got tired of seeing "his" mug app=
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ropriated by another, so he threw a couple of mugs and bored a 1/2" hole in=
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the base. He always carried around a bit of cork to plug it. Source of muc=
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h amusement to those watching for an innocent to use "his" mug. Idea up for=
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grabs as a pressie for your teacher pals.=3D20
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