I had coffee with a few of my friends from The Compassionate Friends this morning. The Compassionate Friends....the group no one wants to be a member of. I always am glad to get together with this group of women though. They are the only people that really, really understand what I am feeling. There are no judgments, only complete love from them. Any of us can express our rawest emotions and no one says that we should be "over it by now". I am really grateful for The Compassionate Friends.
The afternoon was clay play-time! It felt so good to get my hands muddy. Wilhelmina Whale got glazed. Last week I had applied a white underglaze on her belly and Pam fired her over the weekend. Today I put a clear glaze and wax over the white. Then I painted her eyes with some white glaze and waxed them. I guess I was a little sloppy when applying the wax because when I dipped her in New Blue glaze there were some small areas where no glaze stuck. Oh well. And I'm a little afraid that I cut the hole in the bottom too large because the stopper isn't even close to fitting. Hopefully she'll shrink quite a bit more in this next firing. I should be able to post a photo of the final product next week. Crossing fingers that she looks good!
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