I can handle this...

  Finally...I sat down at the wheel today and actually turned a few pieces.  My last several attempts were complete failures...dad says some days it works and the other days you just close the shop door and go back to the house. 

  I was pleased that today the lumps of mud stood up and actually looked like a cylinder.  (The walls were even close to the same thickness on both sides!) ha!

  So I turned those cylinders into coffee mugs!  Well...I turned those cylinders into coffee holding cups...ugh, I hate pulling handles.  I know you can extrude them, but they are never just what I want, and the scale always seems off.  So, after I let them dry as long as I could (some may also refer to this step as procrastination) it was time to attach handles.

I think they turned out ok...now as long as they survive the firing! (Famous last words...) maybe the kiln fairy will trim them for me so they don't become coffee holding cups again? Ha!