Feeling Muggy...

  It's the 19th of September, and it is still 89 degrees!  Not to mention there's enough humidity to keep you from breathing!  Speaking of feeling muggy...

  With less than a month till the 12th Annual Hilton Homeplace Sale, this is the last chance I have to make anything...maybe the weather inspired me, maybe it was all the social media requests for coffee mugs with words stamped in them. 

  What's the opposite of a baker's dozen?  Eleven mugs in one day is a pretty big step for me!  They don't look like each other, unless you consider that they all are a little crooked, ha!  It's nice to sit down and things go well, it happens rarely for me.  Dad was making fun of me because I refused to change the "lucky bat" and kept using the pot lifters to move on to the next mug.

  Up next is jewelry time again!  With a box full of parts, let's hope some of them work out!  

Sometimes you're a baker...

Sometimes you're a baker...rolling out clay like Grandma used to when she made biscuits.  

Sometimes you even have to add a little corn starch so it doesn't stick to everything...

But most often, at least in my case...I'm a carpenter...steel wool is my best friend, and as my father would tell you...it hides a multitude of sins! Ha!  

A little steel wool on the edges of my pieces makes sure there's nothing sharp to grab you...it also covers you and everything around you in dust...(like find it the next day after you've showered kind of covered! Ha!) And it's EVERYWHERE!  No chance of the shop ever being clean.

I joke with dad that if the place burns down we will have the most gorgeous floor ever just in the amount of glaze that has spilled in the floor over the years!  

Well, with only a few weeks left till this year's show I guess I'd better get to sanding! Ha!