Girls Love Clay…

Sofia was so excited to unload the kiln the other day. When unloading I usually have a board with a piece of 240 grit sandpaper stapled to it and I give each piece a little twist to get any kilnwash burrs off. Of course she sees this as a necessary step in the unloading process and there were 30 or so of her little tiles in there and as I handed them to her she savored the result (for a couple seconds) and went on to the important step of rubbing them on the sandpaper block. 30 pieces is not enough for a 4 1/2 year old though and she would have stood there all day as long as I kept handing her pieces. She has names for them too… a certain kind of mark is a “monster” and one is “grass” and one’s “road”, etc. Now she has gifts for everyone she knows (the flipsides are well-sanded too) and can’t wait to wrap them. Anyway, I think she’s starting to understand the computer as a remote communication device and asked if I would be putting pictures of them on the blog. Don’t know where that came from as I don’t recall ever saying the word blog to her (blog really isn’t a word, it’s part of a word). Anyway, here they are…

Going down to 56 tonight and I’m loving it ’cause that’s sleepin’ weather. I still cannot believe it though, spent the last 23 summers in Louisville and never had anything like this in July. I may actually don a sweatshirt in the morning.

Tags: ceramics, clay, porcelain, pottery