Cereal Bowl Mania

Apparently, the little blogging break sparked a blogging fire in me! I sure did not lie when I said I had a lot of “blog-worthy” material inside me.

On to tonight’s topic, ceramics! I started a beginning wheel class about two weeks ago. Every Monday night from 6:30-9:30, I get to have fun with clay and get my hands dirty. I draw pretty flowers and make lots of bowls. I’m obsessed with bowls especially cereal bowls. Plus, I get to interact with a totally different crowd of people. Art people draw me right in because I don’t consider myself artsy. I am horrible at drawing and even copying pictures. I am even pretty bad at drawing and painting in the lines. I feared art classes in school because they would lower my GPA. Yes, I was that “Little Miss 4.0″ I’m pretend crafty. I have made one scrapbook in my life and I like to think it turned out okay.

I found out about my passion and love for ceramics in college (So weird that I can say that now that I’m “officially” out of college). I had to take the dreaded A class, aka an art class. I almost took the easy way out and took a writing class, but changed my mind at the last minute. I enrolled in a ceramics class because my grandma is an amazing potter. I love looking at her work and everyone in the family wants her work.

I quickly found that I could actually do this kind of “art.” Ceramics incorporates enough functionality that you don’t have to possess a lot of artistic ability. A bowl is a bowl no matter what. I also discovered that I love getting lost in the work and having the finished products. I lose myself in the work while I’m bent over the wheel with an ipod on my arm and my elbows dug into my hips working on centering and pulling this frustrating lump of clay. I definitely have a little worship fest going on while working.

I’m not sure where this passion will lead, but for now I’m enjoying getting to know some new people, worship God through a functional but creative outlet, and maybe make some mugs to have on hand for the future (maybe to use at Antioch Community Church or a coffee shop?). Plus, I can always use more cereal bowls!

p.s. I’m willing to take requests to make things for people…though, I can’t guarantee how great they’ll be or when they’ll be done

*The photos are all of pottery the instructors at the place I’m taking the class made. Northern Clay Center