Liz Willoughby on sat 20 apr 02
My dear Joyous Joyce,
I was happy with your mug, rutile blue, a nice glaze, and the mug,
well, I think that considering how long you had been working in clay
that it was more than acceptable. It's the giving that counts.
Always. You have come a long way during your journey with clay, and
it gives me so much pleasure to see that you have found something
that gives you so much enthusiasm and JOY!! Sometimes I envy your
dedication. Finding something that gives so much pleasure in "our"
years is truly wonderful. You just keep giving and giving. Now when
DO you sleep?
Meticky Liz
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>Oh, this reminder fills me with guilt. Liz brought me the most
>exquisite, perfect, loose
>shino mug to Denver, which sits on my kitchen counter along with
>Bacia's, Mel's, and the latest from Craig. My mugs have never been
>even close to okay ...... if the form was acceptable, the glaze was
>creepy .... and vice versa.... just couldn't get it together. Still
>can't when it counts. I'd made many mugs that year, hopefully for
>NCECA swaps .... but the only ones that looked like ANYTHING were
>two that I had to use for the Clayart Mug Swap and the NCECA sale.
>Then Liz gives me Hers!!! Coulda died on the spot. Wanted to lie
>and say I didn't have an extra one .... but I did..... "extra" in a
>lot of ways... including extra bad, or at best mundane/boring .....
>I didn't lie.... gave it to her anyway...... and Have GOT to make a
>decent, somehow special mug for her for San Diego!!!
>
>What I wish fervently is that .. if I'm going to come up with such
>claptrap when it counts .... I'd either hang onto the better stuff
>that I do make occasionally ... for the purpose of having something
>decent to offer to my friends at significant events .... or just
>keep my
>mouth shut about "swapping." Or simply offer a bowl .... some of my
>bowls are not bad......
>
>Joyce
>In the Mojave
Liz Willoughby
RR 1
2903 Shelter Valley Rd.
Grafton, On.
Canada
K0K 2G0
e-mail lizwill@phc.igs.net
Joyce Lee on sat 20 apr 02
Meticky Liz said:
"Sometimes the best results come from mishaps. Now that mug that I
traded with Joyce, I had messed up the glazing, so had wiped off the
outside glaze, waited the next day to reglaze the outside and it came
out really deep orange, on porcelain.(because the salts have traveled
to the outside from the glaze, and then glazed over those salts. Who =
knows?)"
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Oh, this reminder fills me with guilt. Liz brought me the most =
exquisite, perfect, loose
shino mug to Denver, which sits on my kitchen counter along with =
Bacia's, Mel's, and the latest from Craig. My mugs have never been
even close to okay ...... if the form was acceptable, the glaze was =
creepy .... and vice versa.... just couldn't get it together. Still =
can't when it counts. I'd made many mugs that year, hopefully for NCECA =
swaps .... but the only ones that looked like ANYTHING were two that I =
had to use for the Clayart Mug Swap and the NCECA sale. Then Liz gives =
me Hers!!! Coulda died on the spot. Wanted to lie and say I didn't have =
an extra one .... but I did..... "extra" in a lot of ways... including =
extra bad, or at best mundane/boring ..... I didn't lie.... gave it to =
her anyway...... and Have GOT to make a decent, somehow special mug for =
her for San Diego!!! =20
What I wish fervently is that .. if I'm going to come up with such =
claptrap when it counts .... I'd either hang onto the better stuff that =
I do make occasionally ... for the purpose of having something decent to =
offer to my friends at significant events .... or just keep my=20
mouth shut about "swapping." Or simply offer a bowl .... some of my =
bowls are not bad......=20
Joyce
In the Mojave
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