Goblets In The Kiln

First Goblets Are Firing Tonight

   Well, I guess I'll be like that big kid waiting for Christmas this evening, the first goblets are in the kiln and I will just have to wait until tomorrow lunch time at the earliest to see what I've done to them by adding the glaze. It could be a real disaster and all hopes of ever making those tall goblets again may well be lost forever, or, it may be that I'll be over the moon with them and by tomorrow evening I'll be sitting at my wheel making more, we'll just have to wait and see.
   It's funny really, I know they most probably won't be liked by buyers but to be totally honest with you i really don't care, over the last year or two when I've tried everything to keep customers including making lots of beads that I really don't enjoy producing, I've realised how much I long to enjoy the items I make, yes with the beads I know I will need to continue making beads that customers like even if I don't, but with my ceramics, well I'm not going to suffer that fate, I said from the very first time I came up with the idea that I would only make things I enjoyed making and boy am I going to stick to it.
   These goblets are my kind of item, they have that medieval look, they have that sense of grandeur about them, I see them being used on special occasions of indeed by the odd person who enjoys a relaxing glass of wine in the evening, I think of those who drank from them in centuries past when a glass or silver goblet was out of the reach of even the middle classes and for the life of me I can't think of any good reason why we shouldn't still use them now, after all many of us still use stoneware kitchen ware every day of our lives so why not stoneware goblets.
   Ok, I better get that cuppa I promised Yvonne an hour ago plus there is one huge scruffy dog called Sam sitting here waiting for an hair cut, so that should be fun !!