beads, buttons and more mugs

It's a dreary rainy day and I am not feeling motivated to do much of anything. I have sort of felt that way all week. My excuse for not getting anything started in clay today is that on Friday morning I am flying to NYC and then spending a long weekend with my daughter in Connecticut. Why start something new when you may not have time to finish it?
When I mentioned to Jeff that I felt we have been rather lazy this week he said, "What about the 50 mugs and 25 goblets we have been working on?". Oh yeah, that's right. We did do that... along with beads & buttons.


These are the last of the mugs that I handled and decorated...

uh-oh... look at that handle on the mug on the right... popped right off! It was too thin and I probably didn't dampen the slip enough.

small buttons and beads...

and these are the mugs that Jeff handled and decorated...

I think he did twice as many as me. This deco takes a little less time and he definitely is faster at pulling handles. If you remember from an earlier post he also threw all the bodies for these mugs... so the truth is out. I have been lazy, not Jeff ;-).

We usually work into the evening, me until 7 or 8 pm, Jeff often until 9 or 10 pm. Tonight we are taking a break and having a date night. After a our monthly Co-op meeting we are going out to dinner and then to see a movie. We haven't been to the movies since we moved here, I think we are overdue!