Day 57

Do you know exactly how much work it takes to buy a house? I mean, not just the process of making an offer, signing the papers, and then paying for the house for the rest of your life. But what I'm talking about is the researching to find the right place, visiting the houses, and then all the packing, moving, painting, repairing, rearranging, and finally living in a new place....

We've been in the researching stage for quite some time now and I'm tired already.... I think I'd just like to be done with this part and start the painting part- that's what I really like and can't wait to do again! We may be there soon enough though...

On a separate more professional note, yesterday evening, our media center specialist and an English teacher were at a book signing in our high school library when a school board member and the superintendent came over to ask them a question. They wondered who had created all the beautiful vases that were on display above the bookcases. They were impressed with the skill and wondered if it was the high school art students- well, that's a really nice compliment to receive! The media specialist was so happy to share with them that I was the teacher responsible for the classes that created them and that more importantly I displayed them in the library. She was super excited when I asked her this fall if I could display some pieces there and now we both got complimented for how nice they look in the library. In a year of budget cuts, a compliment from a school board member and the superintendent is reassuring.

p.s. These pieces are quite large- each piece is at least 11 inches tall. Not too bad for Ceramics 1 students. Some of them have never worked with clay before so for their first projects, these are pretty impressive.