# I gotta show off my work **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898 "2005-05-21T22:00:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898/21 "2005-05-23T13:17:03Z")
Wow! Me too! That is, I’m just finishing up a fifteen week class in pottery as well. I started throwing some pieces on the wheel and really love it. One of my early works is now a pen-holder on my desk here at work. I was so proud of a pedestal-candy-dish looking thing that I brought it to work to show off. One of my co-workers really loved it and said “Is this for me?!” She was pretty bummed when I said “No.” So I had to make another. She loves it. Seems you like the floating-blue glaze as well, huh? I like your work. I’m going to have to sign up for another class for the summer. There’s too much I still want to do. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898/22 "2005-05-23T13:26:22Z")
Nice pots. Very round. (I never could center the clay on the wheel. Pinch-pots were my forte. And I could make a little clay bunny like nobody’s business.) ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898/23 "2005-05-23T13:28:37Z")
I think they are wunnerful, **fcm**! Keep up the good work! ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898/24 "2005-05-23T14:42:58Z")
Oooh, very good! I really like the glaze colours. And the obsessiveness just shows that you are an _artiste_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898/25 "2005-05-23T16:52:32Z")
Those are very cute, **FCM**. I love blue pottery - a couple of those on my desk for paper clips and whatnot would be very cheerful. They’d look better than this soulless black plastic office stuff. I think the concern with thickness uniformity has more to do with you being an engineer. Mr. brown is a designer, and he has this same trait. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898/26 "2005-05-23T19:21:04Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > \ You are working clay. You have an enormous advantage. If things do not feel right, fold the pot down wetly into itself and knead and throw again. Were you spying on me?? 😛 That’s why, after 8 weeks, I’ll only have 9 pieces, while many of my classmates threw at least twice as many. I spent an entire session with nothing to show for it but a glob that went back into the bag. That was the day I was sure I wouldn’t get it. But I went back and started again. My teacher says over and over that eventually one’s hands learn the feel of uniform thickness. I’m trusting her on that. She said it’s good that I can tell it’s not even. Of course, what is she going to say: _Get out of my class and never come back!!_ Nah - she loves me. I even got a smooch on the forehead on the last day because I brought in a box of packing paper so people could wrap their works to take them home. Go me! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898/27 "2005-05-23T19:23:24Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > See, the whole time I was reading your OP I was imagining Patrick Swayze … \ Everybody brings up Patrick Swayze! Even one of my classmates mentioned it on the first day! Believe me, if I got that close to Patrick, we wouldn’t be potting. We’d be Dirty Dancing, boy howdy… Um, I mean, um… never mind. :o And thanks for the kind words! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898/28 "2005-05-23T19:27:33Z")
> [@GrizzRich](#): > > Seems you like the floating-blue glaze as well, huh? Honestly, I had no idea what the glazes would look like when I dipped my pots. All of the buckets of glaze were pale and _meh_ - imagine my surprise to see such vibrant colors!! (except for that brown thing) As discouraged as I was when I started, I’m thinking I like this pottery stuff. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898/29 "2005-05-23T19:29:35Z")
> [@Rue DeDay](#): > > Pinch-pots were my forte. And I could make a little clay bunny like nobody’s business. I’ve got some clay left over - I was going to try some hand working. I saw something online about making pinch-pots so I though I might give it a try. I don’t think I could make a bunny, but I bet I could make a snake. And a worm. And an eel. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898/30 "2005-05-23T19:33:25Z")
**tupug** and **Lissla** , thanks! I know you’re just buttering me up so I’ll send you an _FCM_ original before the rest of the MMP crew… 😉 > [@teela brown](#): > > I think the concern with thickness uniformity has more to do with you being an engineer. Mr. brown is a designer, and he has this same trait. I kinda figured the same thing. In fact, I was trying to come up with tool rests and such to help me maintain uniformity as I formed and trimmed. I’ll try to suppress the engineer and release my inner _artiste_. Yeah, right. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898/31 "2005-05-24T16:02:31Z")
Dahlin’, ya’ll gonna have a heck of a time cleaning the clay off of [These babies](http://images.webattack.com/screenfiles/calipers.gif). 😃 Here’s one for you. You know how, when **ThePerfectChild ™** was young you could impart emphasis just by how firmly you held her hand or touched her arm as you crossed a street? How the subtleties of touch and immediate feedback became a part of communicating? It’s just like that. Only wetter and slimier. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898/32 "2005-05-24T20:00:27Z")
Well, **'Toons** , my teacher seems to think I have the touch, or the potential to learn the touch. And I know the wet and slimy part - you should see my clothes when I leave class! :eek: I’m still not sure how I get clay on my elbows and my chestal protrusions - I sit pretty far back from the wheel! Next session, I’ll work on my tactile skills. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898/33 "2005-05-24T21:19:30Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I’m still not sure how I get clay on my elbows and my chestal protrusions Cite? 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-show-off-my-work/304898.md?page=1)