When Sarah and I were first married we both worked at home as artists. I made pots and Sarah was a jeweler. We did this for about 8 years. Then Sarah went back to school to get her Masters in counseling and became a full time therapist. Her jewelry studio was eventually dismantled and that area was turned into a guest room. Well, in the past couple months she expressed wanting to get her jewelers bench set back up. So we made some space in the guest room and she got all her tools out and this week for the first time in about 4 years she made some jewelry!!
Sarah took this week off from her therapy job so it's been just like old times. We are both here all day long working at our crafts, eating meals together, and having tea. It's great! I am so happy to see her working at her bench again and I know it's really good for her to be getting some time to nurture her creative side.
I've been making a bunch of pots this week. It's been super rainy today though and nothing is drying. It's hard for me to keep making stuff when I have 60 pots sitting in the studio in a damp state. I'll play hell getting them all finished once they all get ready for footing, handling, slipping and what not. So today I worked for awhile and then just decided to do some computer stuff.
That said, it's nice to have a good jump on the next kiln. I expect I'll fire in mid January if all goes well.