Sunday, September 2, 2012

Sunday Morning Coming Down

I love Sunday mornings, I am always awake between 2am and 3 am, so I always have the world before it wakes up...but Sundays for some reason are extra quiet,extra peaceful. Maybe because it is the start of a new week, maybe because it is suppose to be my day off LOL.

I wonder if every potter felt as daft and out of their depth when they first started their business? I have run from pillar to post, not concentrating on what I really needed to, but everything else. Mud I get, I understand it, it speaks to me clearly....it is the rest of the world that I have trouble hearing and understanding.

I look around the studio and realize that in 10 days ...ooops 9 days I need to have greenware ready for the bisque fire if I am going to make the Rotary Show on the 22nd......and I have nothing!! Not really the chime forms are done, but none of the basket weaves, oh and I have 3 pitiful mugs........HUGE sigh.

Nobody to blame but my hard headed self.....I wonder why I never take the easy road, but rather  get some secret titillating thrill of taking the rocky steep almost impossible road.

Time is a wasting and I have a long road ahead...time to get stuff done.

Happy Mudding

Gem


Saturday, September 1, 2012

oooops

Just a small note there is a blog I started here called Bad Cat Pottery in 2010 then promptly forgot about it LOL......so i am not ripping off BCP I am just a forgetful BCP and can't remember my password to erase it LOL ah well this is where you will find my rambles and confessions.

Happy Mudding

gem

Kicked in the head by Reality

Ever have days where it feels the whole world is kicking you in the head LOL. Well my number came up this week :(.

This week I went from a hobby potter who diddled around and took in the oh your work is so beautiful until my head swelled to an outrageous size and I went hmmmmm I must share Bad Cat Pottery with the world.....

It is so easy being a medium size fish in a tiny micro sized you can create crap at a lazy rate and people like even love your work, and are willing to wait until you get good and ready to make more crap.

The real world expects you to work for your living!!! I mean are they kidding, I have to work hours? I need to be available for business crap? I have to get things done on time..are you shitting me??

Oh and yes dream big child dream big....just not so big you are leaving the horse in the barn and the cart in the yard, let alone putting the cart before the horse.

My dear Man who by the way has run his own small business VERY successfully for many years and who tried to advise me, walk me through the start up hurdles, tried patiently to tell me to slow down....got a boat load of bull crap dumped on him this week, as I dug my very heavy heels in, gritted my very stubborn jaw, and let the Irish out. He knows nothing of the art world I proclaimed, he knows nothing of my life as a potter, and he is not being supportive,just holding me back, jealous of my enthusiasm so he must be an ass shat.....Right come on everybody agree with her Royal Highness the Right Proper Mule Headed Daft Idgit Gem.

I did not sleep last night, because I was throwing a right proper in my head all night, how dare he....he dares because he wishes to save me from myself, to see me succeed where I myself would sabotage. To learn from his mistakes as a small business owner.

So here I am planning on blasting him in a blog, when it hit me gawd darn it he is beyond right...and don't that just flame my ass.LMAO :p.

I have yet to do my first real show, and yet I needed to spend 500 on a website to sell my shit, oh and did I mention I have nothing to really sell. to fill youtube with videos of my greatness teaching others....GAGS..I am not sure how I lost my mind, I just know it went the way of the dodo's.

Those kicks tot he head I believe brought it back. So here and now for the whole Internet to see and remind me when I get to big for my britches again, and lose my ever loving mind again.....

Gem will make product to sell
Gem can make videos on her work, but can not sacrifice work time to trying to get a video to upload.
Gem will listen to the Man he knows shit 
Gem will remember the joy of mud
It is ok to be enthusiastic, and bouncing off the walls, but it must be a controlled bounce.

Finally Gem must use the brain she was gifted with and not let it slip it's tether again :p.


Happy Mudding folks and in the imortal words of Red Green (altered a bit..) If the world don't find you handsome, then they better find you handy." LOL

Gem
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