frolicsome Friday!

I have a great post which as soon as the kiln cools and I can get a photo I will post. For now, lemme plot my weekend with you then you tell me what you are up to:
--lessee, Chapterhouse at 4, c'mon over and join us at the demon lamp! Then, lessee, probably Goofy Kim comes up Saturday and we go to the cinema and then early Sunday I am helping a former student look at a used kiln for sale and later Sunday setting up for Cornell Pot shop's slae all next week....kinda busy weekend actually.

Yawn.....

BAMF of the week: Spike the cat

Let's say you spend part of the day flat on your back, nose running like Niagara. Let's say your main comfort is a friendly and clownish and cuddly cat named Spike. That would earn you BAMF of the week.
Spike is VERY clownish and sweet natured. Like, he thinks he is so clever, hiding under the carpet and swiping at anybody that passes...until he falls asleep under the carpet. As if nobody could see his big azz hanging out the other side....

sick as a dog....

I was sorta wondering where that expression came from. Here is one answer:

'Sick as a...' is a phrase that has been applied to a whole variety of things and creatures...dog, horse, cat, parrot and so on. Even 'sick as a cushion'! These have been around for the past three hundred years.
Presumably, the idea came about because dogs and cats certainly just do vomit whenever their bodies tell them to.
Apparently, horses cannot actually vomit, so 'sick as a horse', strictly-speaking, meant a feeling of nausea whilst being unable actually to be sick. And the 'parrot' connection just came about relatively recently, particularly in circumstances of disappointment in football matches.

and further:

People use this expression to describe someone who’s very sick. It may have something to do with the fact that dogs will eat just about anything – and some of the things they swallow make them feel pretty sick!

I don't feel THAT sick. And I am not dead yet...


Doggy mug for sale now at my etsy gallery...

raku baby...

Carol just sent along this pic of me post-raku firing a week ago, you can see I was jumping up and down with happiness and joy!

wee little teapot

I was thinking lately about how to, oh I dunno, make a certain teapot shape, and was walking the dawg and it came to me and then I came home and made it here :)

partying with Carol and Nance...

Well no, not really, but my pottery student Carol came along for coffee and errands with me this am, when I went to resupply stores and get money back and then, of course, I had to go to Nance's store in Groton and she always has this SAUCY look on her face when somebody pulls out the camera...

I got what you NEED

(large elephant jar by Gary Rith, for sale now at my etsy gallery)

so I was telling Christi and ....

(elephant sugar bowl or whatever by Gary Rith)
I was telling Christi yesterday that I want to make little gems. Not a truckload of identical bowls, but single, cute, perfectly made and sculptural pieces. A little gem. Exercise the flamboyant and most creative parts in the back of my muddled little head.

CHRISTI comes ovah for the cookies

Hadn't seen our best pal Christi in a couple of months. She is a painter and illustrator, and like me, she is working hard to make moola before the Christmas sales season is ovah. She came over to SWAP art for pots, and of course have the cookies and see the dawgs who LOVE their auntie Christie.
YOU could come over here too and have cookies. Just email me :)
On the other hand, you could also go to my online store and buy some pots, like these babies down below....

sorry gals, I'm taken.....

57 dollars and the fridge challenge

My pal Stevo somehow took a pic of himself staring into his fridge. Sort of a fun challenge, eh? Except, I dressed in my cat in the hat tee, grabbed the cat (although sadly you can only see an ear) and put the little Felix doll into the fridge. ARTSY!
Once, long ago, like 1994, we were getting ready to move Chicago-Boston area and were loading junk onto the wagon for the Salvation Army and the wife sez:
"I won't have to get rid of my Felix doll will I?" and it's like
"Holy cats, you can't donate FELIX!!!!!".
Last year on about January 1 Dan and Kai of Ohio, bloggers who kinda disappeared, starting filling a change bottle to see where they were at Christmastime.
At that time I had a massive metal box full of years worth of change and decided to turn it in before it was too heavy to lift. It was almost 1000 dollars believe it or not.
Then I started again, to see what 11 months might result in. On the upside: I counted 57 dollars! On the downside, well, it ain't a thousand is it?

le cat und le mouse....

(cat and mouse and dog and cat mugs by Gary Rith)
I came home one day wanting to make basically a cat painted all the way around a mug, then added blue along the top...and of course, a mouse inside the cat mugs and a cat inside the dog mugs. The look, I think, tres cute and tres sweet.
Even if the weather oustide is shirty you have GOT to love December 1. I gave the wife, as I sometimes do, a lottery ticket advent calendar. She scratched the first today and won.....another ticket! Ho boy, its gonna be a great month :)

Golly these are good jokes.....:

What do you get is you cross an elephant with a cat?
Very nervous mice.



Momma mouse was getting food in the kitchen with her baby when the cat pounced in. Snatching up the kid Momma ran for the mousehole but it was obvious she wasn't going to make it. Finally in desperation she whipped around and shouted "Bark, Bark" at the cat. The cat skidded to a halt and ran away. Momma mouse turned to her baby and said, "You see how important it is to learn a foreign language!"

I was reading in the paper the other day that REO Speedwagon has a Christmas album and that it is fantastic. The thing is, you have to admit that like the band Boston they made some expert and super catchy music, like this one below. Funny though, the band is over 40 years old and has maybe as many as 20 EX members! Same singer all this time, of course.