Introduction

In high school I took an art class. Though I learned a lot about drawing and basic painting, I admired the work going in the next studio with the pottery students. As a project, a guy in that class made an entire set of tableware for his mom for Christmas. I was not able to take the pottery class in high school for whatever reason. It wasn't until my last semester in college that I had one more class I needed to take to meet the general requirements. So, I took a pottery class. That class met Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7:30AM. On Tuesday and Thursday, I had Business Law at 7:30AM. Strangely, I never had problems getting to class on time on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I found that I had to drag myself to class on Tuesday and Thursday. I guess that shows you where my heart was!

In the past 30 or so years, I haven’t been able to do much with pottery. When I was able to pick it back up, with kids and keeping up with their schedule, I could not do much here. To work with pottery, you wait on the clay; it doesn’t wait on you. I concentrated on woodworking since wood waits on you. I now, with woodworking, have a shortage of space. I dream of having a multi-room workshop that I can enjoy both hobbies.