I live in Cocksuckerville. Baltimore's roads are crazy. Granted I am not the best navigator in the world, but it's no help when, without warning, the road splits into two or more roads ( I saw three one time). There is always traffic so you can't get over and the next road you take to turn around in, ends up being a oneway followed by many more. There is no such thing as a grid pattern here and you end up god knows where. Long story short, I am not driving anywhere after dark that I don't already know.

I came to this conclusion after trying to meet my sister if Fredrick for dinner. She has been in DC for the past few days at a conference and had nothing to do, so we picked a random spot to meet for dinner. My parents are actually coming to DC this weekend too. They are doing the killing two birds with one stone thing, well actually three; seeing DC, my sister and me.




My sister, Stephanie after a thumbs-up, delicious meal ( a wonderful picture of her)

A Day of Firsts

Today I had 2 firsts. For the first time I finally got to work in the studio. I know some of you are saying, "What the Hell?" I know I have been here for a month now and we aren't talking about that. I got a space in the studio and my first "official" intern assignment. My task is to produce several cups so Deb and Anne can choose which ones they like, and from there, it's my job to make a ton more of the select few. They are to be given to people when large donations are made and other things of that nature. I found myself lost at the wheel tonight. I made ugly cup after ugly cup and decided it was time to go home for the day. I'll post pictures later.
My other first ( the more important of the two) Pigglet voluntarily sat on my lap!

SNACK TIME CANDY MOLD

I took a mini trip to EBF Pennsylvania to visit Ms. Massie. I ended up taking some wrong turns on the way there and almost had a nervous break down in Deliverence PA. I think thats the last time I start driving at night. While there, I unfortunately couldn't coordinate schedules to see Deca at all, but I will make a trip to see her at some point this year (Marisa too).
Massinator was feeling kinda down so we ended up doing some shopping and look what I found at Ollies! (it's kinda like a Big Lots)
OH what tasty little clay morsels I can make! Earrings anyone?

This is Tip Toland. She's a visiting artist at Clayworks for the next few days. her lecture was tonight and I got some pretty poor images. Anyway, she is a fairly quiet lady who has a quirky, slightly disturbing sense of humor. Ring any bells? She's totally Megan Thomas in like 40 years.
Check out her website, much better images there. www.tiptoland.com

rotten eyes!

Pamela and I cleaned the apt today. Thought the old eyeballs could use a scrubbing.

life in Bmore so far

there are cute-o houses all over my neighborhood, however, this is my apt (the upper right side)


this is the backyard, notice the hot tub! I'm probably never going to use it, but fun to point out















Gnome!













there are a few ceramic sculptures like this around the yard, I'm guessing left from previous Clayworks tenants








tiny kitchen






notice the eyeballs in the fruit bowl




sweet wallpaper in my bathroom










temperamental piglet