My friend carried an Icebat UglyDoll with him pretty much everywhere. One of my favorite photos from my wedding is me holding it. I made this jar at the pottery studio.

And now Artomatic has made me cry.

Hey - any pottery people in Northern Virginia (Alexandria, Falls Church, Springfield, Annandale) interested in taking a market survey for me? Thank you! forms.gle/hwbPZwoBgh7S...

Grief is crazy. Some days it’s as if everything is as normal as it can be and some days your soul feels crushed. I miss my friend who passed from cancer two years ago. I finally stopped reaching for my phone to text him - which also hurts in another way. Fuck Cancer.

I’m kind of obsessed with this Rolleicord TLR and am really enjoying using it as my walk around camera this week.

I have met some… “large personalities” in my pottery journey so far, fortunately more have been kind, open, and supportive. This is more obvious now as I’m working on opening a small business studio space and marveling at this amazing community.

I get really cringe about people making art based on other’s Intellectual Property … and then selling it. It’s pretty bad at places like MAGfest & Katsucon, I try not to buy unlicensed. It’s shockingly prevalent in pottery. People screaming about AI stealing art, valid, but blind eye to this.

I have been mulling over building a home studio which then lead me on to having better pottery studio options for the community. I had an epiphany and spent all night writing a business plan to make a pottery studio co-op. Am I crazy? I think I can do this.

My kitty had bliss face.

The worst part of losing a lot of weight rather quickly is that nothing fits. I bought a bunch of plastic bins and packed away most of my clothes until I can deal with it later. But the under things don’t fit either, bras aren’t cheap. I’m in a constant state of uncomfortable.