Okay..we found my shop. When you vist teh front page of Etsy, you type in CentimaniPottery, teh hit the drop down list to the left. Click "shop" and it wil take you right to "CentimaniPottery"
A lovely friend pointed this out to me.

Okay..looks like I COULD change the name of our Etsy shop. Initially, I wasnt able to. But I could now, so I did. teh name is now "CentimaniPottery" They still wouldnt let me divide the two words lik e I wanted. Kinda picky, in a way.
Any way, it is up now, with a couple of pots in there available. More later pots in a bit.
Eliada and I now have an Etsy shop! YAY!!
Our pots are now running through the bisque, and wil be finished and up shortly

But I still do.
I still feel hollow.
I have fantastic apprentices I am SO proud of.
Students who are new and excited and promising.
I am attending more SCA business meetings now.
My work is rocketing off into an exciting new direction.
Eliada (no, she is not my girlfriend, tho I think she would wonderful at that) but she IS a fantastic business partner. Which is even better.
Friends visit a LOT. I have lots of company. I know they love me. And I them. I am where I need and should be
And yet, by 11 PM..It is so horribly lonely.
I dont like it, and especialy since seems to becoming long lasting.
Mourning seems to make it worse. Or make it seem worse. Or something.
loneliness is not somthing to embrace.

One door closes..another, even nicer, opens.
Who says miracles dont happen?

Beware!!!

But at least I have the comfort of clay adn making things..

Eliada seems to be catching a cold, now. Her mom had one, I had one that i s going away) so she decided it was time to share. So, today, she fell asleep in the library.
Shes coming over in a bit to see what came out of Thorr, discuss Potrero and other stuff.
I find it (not depressing, but sort of "down" when I dont hear from her all daY)
Then she calls, and I perk up so much! Almost startling!
Side note, she brought over a really deep wiht gold specks C10 blue glaze. Fired it to cone 6, and OMG, we have a BEAUTIFUL dark blue semimatte..WOW! I wantz it!!!
ANd I think f we did a line blend wiht nepheline sysnite, wwe can drop the temp to our purposes.

Feeling a bit down today, but still getting work done for Centimani. Helps, but still a bit ...eh!
Call her, tell her what is happening. Update and kept in loop.
Adn just the sound of the voice was sufficient.
Smiling now. 8-)

I miss Eliada. At Crown, I got used to her being around each day.
And I KNEW she wasnt going to be here to day. She had class (I encourage education!) and an afternoon meeting.
And I had wound care mid afternoon, and work to do my self.
And she WILL be back tomorrow, for a long day. Then Aardvarks on wednesday, together.
So it seems kinda silly.
But I miss her anyway.

Okay, others may not get this, why it is important to me. But it is. And I understand the depth. We are talking about throwning white clay bodies. And a surface Eliada can do her painting on. She wants her painting to really stand out, as it should for M.E. pottery. It shoudl "shine like the sun" She decides the clay body itself is not white enough. Fair enough. Adn she decided my ball clay based slip is not white enough either. Ok..."may we use some kaolin slip instead? It is SO much whiter!"
And I was so very pleased, very pleased, that she woudl know that. Would have that knowledge at her fingertips.
And my respect, my liking her, and caring about how she is adn feels, grows. How could it not?
BTW..kaolin based slip is very much whiter firing that ball clay based slip.