When I was little, my mom made these cupcakes for my class on my birthday. Mom is one of the best cooks there is, and while this one looks a bit mushed (from travel), it was yummy! With a little 10 x sugar on it, it is like no other. It is a vanilla cupcake with lemon meringue scooped into it.... When the cupcake is done and cool, just take a knife and take off of the top part of the cupcake and then scoop in a bit of the warm lemon meringue. Probably my favorite kind of cupcake! Mom made this when I visited recently.
The other day I finally made it to Claymakers in Durham. I keep forgetting whether it's called Claymakers or Claymatters... but whatever it's called, I got some copper carbonate, custer feldspar and frit 3110 which will help me make a new blue glaze recipe. :)
(Thanks, Tracey! Claymakers...)
With all the rain out, my flowers are happy including my zinnias and cosmos, both planted from seed. Inexpensive and cheap! :) Oh and a vase of mine in a not so good pic. Sorry!
Back to more pics from a few hours spent in DC. This was the closest I got to the Washington Monument. Love the sky shot.
While there, there was an exhibit highlighting different countries- and those which have indigenous groups whose language is in threat of becoming extinct. One of those is a people group in Bolivia- and I am half bolivian, so I visited. These are looms that are used to weave blankets and all kinds of woven things.
While in DC went to the Asian American Museum... and saw this! A balsa boat--- which is made on the shores of Lake Titicaca. These are hard to find on the shores of that huge lake these days, but some of my ancestors-- my grandparents-- and others who have gone before me, made boats like these. They're huge.
This is interesting... languages that are at risk... saw this in that indigenous exhibit.
Two ceramic forms in the central american exhibit- 'Ceramics de los Ancestros' (Ceramics from the Ancestors)... Really like the shape of these forms. Was in the National Museum of the American Indian. Interestingly, it had much from Central America--- but not South America.
Okay, these pictures are a bit scrambled. Back to time in PA with family. My mom's homemade custard.
Custard- some of which I ate for lunch in DC with red raspberries I picked before I left. Yum!
Hmmm- back to the exhibit in the I make teabowls with this shape. :)
From that National Museum. This even had a foot--- although hard to see.
The full balsa boat...
Beautiful woven things-- blankets are called ahuayos...
And this is a chuspa. I have one-- in other colors. It is used by the indigenous people to- of course, carry things... in particular, coca leaves which make cocaine. Mine is a purse. :)
listened to a mini concert by one of the Quechua groups--- from Bolivia.
Flowers that love the rain...
Okay, so this is how where I put the clay water. Then it settles and well, I pour off the water at the top. So- a question: do I just wait and then reclaim it--- or what's next. What do you do? I have no sink and really this is all the clay water I have from one year of making pottery.!
Silly question sorta... Oh, and look at the insect. dragonfly hanging out! It was HUGE!
