I am so looking forward to starting my pottery classes tomorrow for some time now i have always wanted to make my own pots, jugs, cups ect, i am doing it at the adult education centre and because i am a carer it only costs me £7 per term how great is that so when i make my first thingy !! i'll post it so we can all have a giggle
Respect to all, be kind to all and you shall reap what you sow.
old tree man,
aka..... Russ
A few months ago I helped out with the catering at a pottery weekend. In exchange I'm due a day's pottery lesson. I haven't had time to go yet but I'm really looking forward to it.
Have fun, I'm sure you'll be great. I can't wait to see your first creations.
Don't blame you for being excited OTM, I would be too. It's one of those things I've always fancied having a go at and maybe I'll get up the courage to attend a course one day - enjoy!
That's fantastic,
Pottery is one of the things on offer in the LD Artist's studio that I work in. (I'm not a potter mind you!) Half the stuff I make is terrible, but I can at least help the artists to produce fairly decent pieces! But it is great fun, I always think that I should put myself forward more when someone wants to work with clay - but I always leave it to the potters as it takes soooo much less time to tidy up afterwards....
Oooooh good luck Russ and hope you have lots of fun. I can still remember every piece I brought home for mum from school - absolutely hideous each and every one of them but poor woman proudly displayed them for years and years and then..... gave them back to me!!! I think I have managed to lose them now after several house moves ha ha!
Nice one - but beware - remember what happened to Tom Good!
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And let us be kind
Let us be silly and free
It won't make us famous
It won't make us rich
But damn it how happy we'll be!
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old tree man wrote:I am so looking forward to starting my pottery classes tomorrow for some time now i have always wanted to make my own pots, jugs, cups ect, i am doing it at the adult education centre and because i am a carer it only costs me £7 per term how great is that so when i make my first thingy !! i'll post it so we can all have a giggle
From your photo and posts, I thought you'd been pottering about for years.
Thanks everyone i have just got back from my first lesson and what a great time i had, the teacher is a lovely lady in her late 60s and what a star she is, she is patient informative and funny what a lovely teacher, i cant wait for next week,
Respect to all, be kind to all and you shall reap what you sow.
old tree man,
aka..... Russ
old tree man wrote:Thanks everyone i have just got back from my first lesson and what a great time i had, the teacher is a lovely lady in her late 60s and what a star she is, she is patient informative and funny what a lovely teacher, i cant wait for next week,
....... so where's the piccy????
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Excellent! Well done you for goig out and doing it. And the results will be brilliant.
I'm very lucky. MrLovelyHorse is a potter. So I have all this pottery equipment here, and a lovely patient man to show me techniques and help when I get stuck. Unfortunately, at the moment I don't get time to enjoy this to the full, but once we've moved to France and I've reduced the number of hours I work (at the moment I'm working like a slave to earn pennies to fund the move!), I'm looking forward to spending happy hours pottering around with clay and glazes.