Before

As I mentioned before, Francie and I spent the weekend painting pottery. Rachael wants me to paint her a bunch of stuff for her etsy store. Which I don't mind doing, since all her profits go to buy Christmas presents for orphans in Russia. So I painted mugs for her store and a few for mine and Francie painted a couple of things for her kitchen. All these mugs you see here are just the ones I did for Rach. So as you can clearly see, we were very busy. I guess I didn't do all of these this weekend, but I doctored up some of them that needed more detail. They look pretty dull and boring, but the color doesn't show up until they are fired. I made something for Rachael that she doesn't know about. It is a surprise. I can't wait to see if it turns out, she is going to like it so much she won't want to sell it in her store. She's going to try to talk me into letting her just keep it. She does this a lot. But that's OK, because I have made arrangements to make sure I can get more just in case. I will post pictures of her surprise once I have finished it and given it to her. I was supposed to make a bunch of Christmas stuff for her too, but I have so many other things painted that I'm going to be able to fill the kiln more than once with all the stuff I need to fire already. She might have to do a Christmas in August theme because July is quickly disappearing. Stay tuned to see how everything turns out. I should be running the kiln this weekend I hope. I need to hire someone to help me glaze all this stuff. Too bad I can't make any money doing this, then I could stay home all day and play in the basement. Maybe in another life time.