I Need Input...From Our Readers....If there are any...

This semester I am taking the intermediate wheel throwing class again and I am about to have a huge problem. Just after spring break we will have our first critique of our work. This will include over 95 pieces I have made so far and Emily and I have no room for them in our house. Last time I took this class we had Emily's graduation hoopla and we sold them there. Since I am not graduating soon and it was hard enough to get everyone there last time we decided we might do an online silent auction from our blog.

We have several readers that live outside of Utah and we'd be more than happy to ship them where ever. (All of the old potters have mastered shipping them through the mail.) Since this is my last semester doing ceramics in school and since people have asked how to get some of my pots, we thought this would be the easiest way to do it. But I need to know what people think. I think we would probably put the pieces online for 2 weeks let everyone bid on what they liked and close it out and go from there.

I don't want people to think that this would turn into a blog where we ask you guys to buy stuff all the time, I just don't see any other options. I do have the option to put them into the Ceramics Guild sale but I have to mark them up a lot more than I regularly would because they keep 30%. And for you guys outside of Utah you're kind of out of luck. So let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions. I will also post pictures of what I have made once I get them glazed fired.
And for those of you I promised to make you something and never got it to you, I don't want you to think I forgot I just huh... So I forgot. shoot me an email and I will take that into consideration;)

Fishing,quilting,eating,rollingover and tons of elk

Last week I went fishing on Saturday morning with a friend of mine and we caught a tons of fish. This crazy old guy told me I needed to try a spinner on my line as the weight, it seemed to work well for him and I was amazed at how well it worked for us. We caught over 30 fish (most of the perch)and my buddy kept most of them. Emily stayed home and put together a quilt with the leftover fabric from the one she made for Brynner. I really like it and called dibs but I know how artist work and if they dont want to keep something or had other plans for it there is no conviencing otherwise. It was a beautiful day one not meant for staying home and watching the Dew action sports tour or sking at deer valley so we split. We went to Iron Gate Grill for dinner and afterwards we decided to drive up to Hardware Ranch to check out the elk. Half way up we watched a very young couple roll their jeep.(a week after we watched a girl get a nose job by slamming her car into a van) After running up and checking to make sure the couple was okay and seeing them dangle from their seats I instructed them to stay where they were(nobody found it funny but me.) A couple of other people stopped and we rolled the jeep back over and found that the young man had a small cut on his hand and the young girl was fine. Both were a little shaken up but nothing serous at all. Emily went and got a blanket for them and the young man took it and said thanks and wrapped himself up. (I don't think she'll stick with him for long) The young mans dad was up looking at the elk and came down about 15 minutes after it happened. The Jeep was still running so they decided he was going to drive it back down the canyon so Emily and I finished our trek up to the elk and it was awesome here are a couple of pictures we took.
and here are some of just the elk we got lucky and saw two of them fighting!!!

Dear Future Self,

The other night I was rummaging through a bunch of papers and cards that I had kept. There were a lot! That's not the point. I found the answer to Aaron's question.

Around my birthday I mentioned what I need to do before I'm 25. Aaron was intrigued and asked what it consisted of. I really didn't think I had a list but I was mistaken. I found a letter to myself of what I expected my life to be at 25 years old. It makes me laugh because I realize now how old I thought 25 was.

"The year is 2008 and you are now 25 years old..." I asked myself about dates with my husband, my one child, my dog Happy, and my cottage in the country. I remember writing this letter (I have the Swensen memory) and being conservative in writing about only one child. I would like a child but I don't think it will happen by my birthday. I want a dog but the only reason I'd name him Happy is because of this silly letter. Besides my "cottage" in the country won't allow for a pet.

Drew and I had a good laugh about it and I thought I would share with all of you.