Wow, That Was Fast
Went to the pottery shop Color Me Mine this weekend for my mostly-annual-paint-a-thing-on-my-birthday celebration. I had, some years ago, painted a chopstick bowl (their term not mine) in a very zen fashion - one small strip of blue on the outside and one small strip of black on the inside - but it broke in my last apartment. This year I decided to replace it.
My first thought was to write some Chinese symbols on the inside but once I started thinking about how to paint the outside (a no-brainer for those of you following along) a language on the other side of Eurasia became apparent. Only later (and I share this with you in secret) did I realize that my accents are aigu when they should be grave. Eh bien.
The words I researched and planned for were 'body', 'mind', 'love', 'spirit', and 'food' but when I got to the store I was faced with a real-world space limitation. Probably the most fun word, and not the least relevant, was abandoned for being too big. That's OK. Other pieces sit quietly on the shelves waiting for my attention...rumor has it they'll get a shipment of spoon rests in about a month and I'm thinking of laying down some phat math equations. 2nd order PDEs FTW.
Tips for next time include better spacing of letters and using a wee bit of puffy paint on the outside. Glazed items are uberslippery when wet and puffy paint should oughta create something akin to ridges.
I think we're getting new carpeting this weekend. Yay for packing and doing the bedroom shuffle.
Hey, so lemme ask you something. I've queried an equestrian friend of mine, but haven't heard back yet. I got to thinking about horse anatomy (well, Zebra but same diff). Horses have 4 legs & 0 arms; this means they don't have any shoulders per se. Do horses have 2 sets of hips?
PS - the most awesomist picture evar showed up in my inbox the other day. mspinkie is, in fact, the shizzlette.
My first thought was to write some Chinese symbols on the inside but once I started thinking about how to paint the outside (a no-brainer for those of you following along) a language on the other side of Eurasia became apparent. Only later (and I share this with you in secret) did I realize that my accents are aigu when they should be grave. Eh bien.
The words I researched and planned for were 'body', 'mind', 'love', 'spirit', and 'food' but when I got to the store I was faced with a real-world space limitation. Probably the most fun word, and not the least relevant, was abandoned for being too big. That's OK. Other pieces sit quietly on the shelves waiting for my attention...rumor has it they'll get a shipment of spoon rests in about a month and I'm thinking of laying down some phat math equations. 2nd order PDEs FTW.
Tips for next time include better spacing of letters and using a wee bit of puffy paint on the outside. Glazed items are uberslippery when wet and puffy paint should oughta create something akin to ridges.
I think we're getting new carpeting this weekend. Yay for packing and doing the bedroom shuffle.
Hey, so lemme ask you something. I've queried an equestrian friend of mine, but haven't heard back yet. I got to thinking about horse anatomy (well, Zebra but same diff). Horses have 4 legs & 0 arms; this means they don't have any shoulders per se. Do horses have 2 sets of hips?
PS - the most awesomist picture evar showed up in my inbox the other day. mspinkie is, in fact, the shizzlette.