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To craft or not to craft....
Dec. 20th, 2018 05:35 pm In the wee hours of this morning, I got a text from GK (sent while I was napping), saying she heard from the florist we sometimes deliver for (Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day), she'd be making deliveries this morning, did I want to navigate for her? My cut is $2 a pop for each delivery, so my answer was, heck yeah! I managed to catch another nap before getting up and getting ready--she picked me up around 8:30 and we made one run, which netted me $24. We're going out again tomorrow and Saturday for sure, and maybe Monday?
The money is welcome--there's a ceramics class I'd like to take. I know,it's a luxury, not a necessity. I used to love doing ceramics, back in the day, but I got spoiled, because S had her own kiln and an arseload of molds. (Firing fees? What are those?!) At this point, though, it's been 12-15 years since I've done anything like that. Most of my stuff got left behind in Florida--I had a few molds of my own, a ton of bisque, some disintegrating greenware and tons of paint. I kept two pieces of bisque (neither suitable for this class) and I still have my brushes--I invested a good chunk of cash in those guys!--and it would be lovely to sit quietly and paint for a few hours.
The class is on painting geometric mandala designs, which sounds peaceful and looks lovely (pix online). It doesn't look difficult to figure out. I'm sure I could achieve the same effect with my own paint if I found something suitable to daub. The projects they showed online were. all for food-related items--a butter dish, a spoon rest, a plate--if I worked on something generic like a tissue-box cover (easy enough to thrift and paint over), it wouldn't matter what kind of paint it was. The main reason I'd like to take the class is to get out of the house and be around people. Not even necessarily to converse with them, just to sit and listen. Don't get me wrong, I prefer living alone, but I don't really have a social life the way I did in Florida, where I had church on Sunday and people like Mb or SBJB I could spend time with. Here, I go to doctors or shopping, and except for GK's weekly visits, that's IT. I'm so starved for conversation that Lyft drivers get my life story in two miles or less.
The studio offering the class is literally next door to the florist we're delivering for, so after we finished our run, I got GK to wait for a few minutes while I popped in to ask about it and see what the place was like and what kind of bisque they have. The class is $10 (including instruction and use of their paints and brushes) plus a minimum of $14 bisque purchase. While I was in there, I saw something I was looking for a while back--one of those bowls you can put a ball of yarn in and it has a notch cut in the rim so you can pull the yarn through it. It's $24, which certainly meets the requirement...and it's useful.
Can you tell I'm talking myself into it? I think tomorrow I'll see if they still have any slots open (Reservations required.) when we're through with deliveries, provided I clear enough from the flowers to cover everything. The class itself isn't til January, but there are only four slots left, according to the gal I talked to. We'll see!
Cool Yule, y'all........
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The money is welcome--there's a ceramics class I'd like to take. I know,it's a luxury, not a necessity. I used to love doing ceramics, back in the day, but I got spoiled, because S had her own kiln and an arseload of molds. (Firing fees? What are those?!) At this point, though, it's been 12-15 years since I've done anything like that. Most of my stuff got left behind in Florida--I had a few molds of my own, a ton of bisque, some disintegrating greenware and tons of paint. I kept two pieces of bisque (neither suitable for this class) and I still have my brushes--I invested a good chunk of cash in those guys!--and it would be lovely to sit quietly and paint for a few hours.
The class is on painting geometric mandala designs, which sounds peaceful and looks lovely (pix online). It doesn't look difficult to figure out. I'm sure I could achieve the same effect with my own paint if I found something suitable to daub. The projects they showed online were. all for food-related items--a butter dish, a spoon rest, a plate--if I worked on something generic like a tissue-box cover (easy enough to thrift and paint over), it wouldn't matter what kind of paint it was. The main reason I'd like to take the class is to get out of the house and be around people. Not even necessarily to converse with them, just to sit and listen. Don't get me wrong, I prefer living alone, but I don't really have a social life the way I did in Florida, where I had church on Sunday and people like Mb or SBJB I could spend time with. Here, I go to doctors or shopping, and except for GK's weekly visits, that's IT. I'm so starved for conversation that Lyft drivers get my life story in two miles or less.
The studio offering the class is literally next door to the florist we're delivering for, so after we finished our run, I got GK to wait for a few minutes while I popped in to ask about it and see what the place was like and what kind of bisque they have. The class is $10 (including instruction and use of their paints and brushes) plus a minimum of $14 bisque purchase. While I was in there, I saw something I was looking for a while back--one of those bowls you can put a ball of yarn in and it has a notch cut in the rim so you can pull the yarn through it. It's $24, which certainly meets the requirement...and it's useful.
Can you tell I'm talking myself into it? I think tomorrow I'll see if they still have any slots open (Reservations required.) when we're through with deliveries, provided I clear enough from the flowers to cover everything. The class itself isn't til January, but there are only four slots left, according to the gal I talked to. We'll see!
Cool Yule, y'all........
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