So about me.. I'm a network engineer (read computer geek) and have been for 10 years now. I have 2 dogs and a cat who I love to death.
Zoe is 9+ years old and kind of like that roommate that you have who lives there and exists but that's about it. She will come in and announce herself or just scream if she wants something but other than that her highness prefers to lay on the daybed with her huge stuffed dog or sleep on her fuzzy blanket and pillow and watch the world go by out on the street. Her favorite person in the world is my dad and she will even brave the dogs to come downstairs and see him when they are visiting.
Shelby and Skye are my big furballs.
Shelby is 6, she is half rot and the rest lab/sheppard. Skye is 3 and we believe she is half cattle dog (ACD) and the rest lab and pit. They are both rescues, Shelby was born in an abandoned house with her 7 sisters and rescued by the neighbors who run a horse farm north of Raleigh. I got her on Father's day at an adoption fair at Petsmart.
Skye was seen wandering in the country and was picked up by animal control. The day I got her she looked like a yeti and was covered in ticks, it took me 3 hours sitting on the deck to remove them all. She was also heartworm positive. Many vet visits later she is now going on 2 years heartworm free and looks quite a bit different after getting shaved down.
This is the 2 of them waiting impatiently for the 'big truck'. They can hear the diesel engine of Dad's truck coming and freak out when it gets close.
When I'm not at work I love to do pottery. I took a ceramics class in college and have been in love with it since. I finally got back into it last year. Now I have a wheel and a small kiln of my own and am looking to get a slab roller soon. I haven't named it, even though it is bugging my friends and is considered bad karma but nothing has really come to mind so I'm just letting it ride.
My work is different, and varies depending on where the clay takes me. I like coming home from work and just playing.. alot of times I don't even know what I've made until I'm done. One thing I've definitely learned, you can't make the clay always do what you want, sometimes it just doesn't want to. Often times its more interesting to just go with the clay and see where it takes you. I am a very tactile person and love texture. When people look at my pieces and want to touch them sometimes they apologize, and I tell them not to. Thats what I do to! I makes things that you look at and think wow, I want to see how that feels becuase it looks cool... belive me I do it all the time :)
Here are a couple of my current favorites (they change often).
This was one of my early pieces but still remains a favorite, probably even more so right now because I entered it in a competition. It took 4th place at the 2008 North Carolina State Fair. I had only a week's notice before entries were due so I didn't have time to prepare something else but I am very happy with it. I intend on entering a piece in ceramics again next year and am thinking about entering my grandmother's chocolate cookies too.
This one just came out of the kiln this week... I call it my Splat Plate because of its shape. All of the marks in it were made with stamps that I carved.
I have also been experimenting with what I call "CTCs" short for Ceramic Trading Cards, a spin-off on the concept of ATCs. I've got a couple series of them out so far on my flickr account.
My newest things is seeing how I can over-fire glass in my ceramics pieces to make it crack and bring out the piece more. There aren't pics yet but there will be soon. I'm also going to be in another fused glass class next week, pics will follow of course :) I love taking Paula's classes its a nice short couple hours to make whatever you want and not worry about the details of having to fire it :)
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