Bracing for a blow to my self-esteem

I know I am not great at making pots, I am getting better.  This friday is the Empty Bowls project and we will go eat there. It will be lunch due to his work schedule.  But I will see my work, silent auction, the paper with bids.  I am bracing myself to be ok with both no bids as well as very  very low bids.

El Pueblo's Bid & BBQ is in the middle of the month. I will hear about it after the fact as we are not going. Again.. bracing myself for what is coming.  I need to not let it bring me down.

new clay

So we did our adventures in reclaim and learned a lot. There are pix that I might steal from Cup & Bowl, I took a lot of them with Kuky's ipad.

So my clay is not dry enough to throw and I have not had time to babysit it to make it so. I took some and wedged and dried and wedged and it was still very soft but I had time and wanted to throw.  I should have tried plates not bowls given the softness...

this is a look at the studio there as well as the one bowl I made.  I gave up as the size I wanted to make could not be supported. In the end this bowl cracked!  It was hard to compress something that bloody wet.  But I will fire it and do a variety of glazes making this a test pot for the "new" clay.