The Old and The New

I seem to always be on a quest to come up with new ideas for piggy banks. I decided to glaze a couple of them like my water color mugs. Not only am I looking for new colors that will appeal to buyers but also trying to keep myself from becoming bored with the little guys.

I like the new blue and white, but will always have a soft spot for plain old shino, dusted with wood ash.
I will be adding more "ready to ship" piggy banks to my Etsy shop, and there is still time for special orders for Christmas delivery.

I can see clearly now...

Well, sort of.

Last week I mentioned that I was giving contact lenses a try. I started out with mono lenses, a different lens in each eye, one for close up and one for distance. They made me dizzy and tired by the end of the day. I also found that reading on the computer was difficult, sort of double vision-ish. So this week the eye doc said it could take a month for my eyes to "work together" but he didn't think I should be tortured for that long. This week I am trying bi-focal contacts. So far these are better. They are great for working in the studio, the computer screen is much better. Distance vision isn't great, but I knew that that was one of the compromises. I am really hoping these will work out. I am so enjoying being glasses free.

And how about that silly ginkgo pig? He was number 21 yesterday and I was getting a little bored.