Saturday, June 14
Jun. 14th, 2025 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Nice weather for raku day.
We were up in good time to arrive at raku day (has been held at the same pottery member's lovely acreage for the past few years).
My Sweetie was able to attend, and he got about 12 hours of sleep last night.
There was a good turnout, lots and lots of gorgeous items were made, and lots of fun and food.
I got to take two others for a spin in the golf cart, the pottery member has nice trails on their property.
I was pretty happy with how my pieced turned out. Pictures don't do raku justice, as there is often an interesting pattern, metallic spots, subtlety that doesn't show in images.
I seemed to cope with the social aspect a little better this year, sometimes I can almost get light-headed at all the fun and chatting. This year I enjoyed it, but it wasn't overwhelming. Maybe I'm getting more practice at gatherings like this.
I very much admire the host's home. It is lovely and gracious, uncluttered yet not stark, and so very clean and hospitable. How does anyone manage to have such a lovely home, and be such down to earth people? Really! I can never seem to manage any level of graciousness or "intentional decor".
Our place always looks like we're just kind of managing, barely.
Anyhow, the raku events took up most of our day.
Then we came home, let the animals out into their larger pastures, and had a wonderful nap on our outdoor swing that folds out into a bed.
Then we watched "Bewitched" with Nicole Kidman and Will Farrell that was sweet, funny, and pretty unchallenging.
Nice weather for raku day.
We were up in good time to arrive at raku day (has been held at the same pottery member's lovely acreage for the past few years).
My Sweetie was able to attend, and he got about 12 hours of sleep last night.
There was a good turnout, lots and lots of gorgeous items were made, and lots of fun and food.
I got to take two others for a spin in the golf cart, the pottery member has nice trails on their property.
I was pretty happy with how my pieced turned out. Pictures don't do raku justice, as there is often an interesting pattern, metallic spots, subtlety that doesn't show in images.
I seemed to cope with the social aspect a little better this year, sometimes I can almost get light-headed at all the fun and chatting. This year I enjoyed it, but it wasn't overwhelming. Maybe I'm getting more practice at gatherings like this.
I very much admire the host's home. It is lovely and gracious, uncluttered yet not stark, and so very clean and hospitable. How does anyone manage to have such a lovely home, and be such down to earth people? Really! I can never seem to manage any level of graciousness or "intentional decor".
Our place always looks like we're just kind of managing, barely.
Anyhow, the raku events took up most of our day.
Then we came home, let the animals out into their larger pastures, and had a wonderful nap on our outdoor swing that folds out into a bed.
Then we watched "Bewitched" with Nicole Kidman and Will Farrell that was sweet, funny, and pretty unchallenging.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2025-06-16 04:45 am (UTC)