Bigger and Off!

 The very good news is that I'm making bigger pieces.  This bowl is from 7 lbs. of clay.  I'm so pleased!  I remember Adrienne Dellinger saying once that by continuing to make lots of smaller pieces, it would help me make the bigger ones someday.  I have been so content in making the smaller ones and remember vividly one day just adding some more clay to center and well, what she said worked!  This one will be trimmed and then get words etched onto the outside of it, I believe.  Good news!

The other good news is that I'm off and away for a week, which is simply wonderful.  Spent time with good friends today, went running in my favorite place in Charlotte, and tomorrow, I'm off to Asheville.  Thanks for the gallery insight.  I will go to Blue Spiral in Asheville for sure, and I just discovered Signature Gallery in Atlanta too as Mudfire is too much out of the way.
Loving the pottery world these days.
Oh, and this picture is of me and my dad last summer in the North Cascades Mountains.  Yes, that's snow atop some of the peaks in mid-August.  It was a heavenly time.  I'll be hiking there about a month from now.  Can hardly wait!
I may return home from either trip.  I just may.  :)  After all, my pottery wheel is there.