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How time flies, and I'm realizing my last post was so long ago! I have been busy, really! I've been working on photographs to apply to summer shows, restocking the galleries I have my jewelry featured in, and making some ceramic pieces for our Colorado Potters Spring Show & Sale, which was last weekend! I managed to make 40 or so olive dishes, a few birdhouses, and some bowls. That means throwing clay in my basement where you are not sure if the sun is shining or not. I've also been working on some mixed metal pieces, with steel, bronze clay & silver clay. I found a very cool class online, by CRAFTCAST, Alison Lee hosts different artists who give online classes. You can watch it live, or later download it. She features different artists, and podcasts a you can listen to as well.
In my personal life sadly, I lost a cousin due to alcoholism, and in March went back to Milwaukee for a very sad funeral. He had been in rehab after falling while very drunk & hitting his head over the holidays. Unfortunately, the brain injury facility did not keep him very long, and after 30 days in an alcohol rehab, he got out & continued to drink. It hit me hard, as I grew up with his family of nine kids. I'm now realizing that alcohol can kill, and is very addictive. And the addictive brain is a strong beast. And 52 is way too young to leave this world.
