Holiday Plates

Since I'm doing my FIRST show, I've been struggling to 1. get things produced, 2. come up with ideas to produce, 3. figure out how I want the table to look 4. figure out what might sell the best... So I put it out to the group and got the advise that jewelry will probably sell the best. This, unforunately, is my least favorite thing to make since I'm not really a jewelry person, so it's been tough for me to get motivated and most of my pieces aren't coming out how I had envisioned it in my mind. Now I have less than a week to go. But today I had an epiphany...why am I trying to produce things that don't interest me? Why not just make things I want to make. And that's when I came up with these 3 (actually 4 but I don't have a "before" picture of it.) I've been told I make great, fun eyes using Glassline paint and I have fun with it to, so my new outlook came up with these pieces (these are before firing)

TANGLED CAT

BUSTED!

TOO MUCH TINSEL (I'm going to add a string of lights to this piece since I can now see it needs more color) I figure I'm not going to get rich doing this, and this isn't going to be my major source of income, so if my first show is a flop, I'm ok with it. It will be a learning process and I'd rather have fun making things I want to make rather than struggle to make things that I "think" others would like to see. So along with the epiphany, I also programmed the kiln for the first time. I'll see tomorrow how the pieces turn out. I'm trying to slump and fire polish a few pieces. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed tonight and find out tomorrow morning if I was successful.