It's my party and I'll cry if want too...

This weekend was our annual holiday open house. I cleaned and dusted the gallery, made some fall arrangements in vases with cuttings from around the yard, bought some holiday candy, and baked homemade brownies (no box mix for this girl!).

and nobody came.

Yep, you read that right...NOBODY came. I guess that's not entirely true. Late Saturday afternoon two couples strolled in, said they were just out looking, asked questions about the log cabin... and left. On Sunday we saw NO ONE.
So no one came to my party but I chose not to cry. The older I get I am a little more choosey on what I will shed tears over. In reality that fact that no one came was a probably a good thing. With the breakdown of our electric bisque kiln, we were a couple of days behind with firing orders. The weather was beautiful and we spent the day glazing and loading the gas kiln, and getting another load into the bisque. Jeff replaced the switch on the kiln and the bisque was firing until very early Sunday morning. Yesterday, the gas kiln was loaded by 5 pm and Jeff pulled an all nighter to get it done. We will unload Tuesday night and get everything shipped by Wednesday, just prior to the US Postal deadline for priority mail.
We are tired and looking forward to a couple of days with less pressure, and more sleep... and heck, we have brownies to eat!