Feeling lost and celebrating a find!

This is one of the saddest days of the year for me.  I used to adore Valentine's Day and celebrating love and romance.  These days, not so much.  I would rather stay at home and eat a peanut butter sandwich for dinner than go out and see all the couples gaga about each other (or at least putting on a good show).

Yes, I love my family and friends, but I have nobody to call my own.  Simply telling it like it is.

OK, enough about my intense dread of this day.

The find is thanks to my sister-in-law Jan.  She noticed a pair of plates advertised by one of the local antique shops in my home town.  She thought she recognized them and posted them to my facebook page.  Sure enough, they were plates that, along with Laurie - another sister-in-law (and probably others as well), I helped produce in 1990 while working for my father-in-law.  My contribution was the decorating.

Long story short - they now belong to me and safely made the trip via USPS.

Show Anxiety

I guess show anxiety is starting to set in.

My mind is racing from one thing to another. I leave in a week.

Do I have enough of each product in each color glaze? Will the weather in the Georgia mountains be good again for the show this year? Are they going to put me in the same general spot I was in last year?

There's more going through my mind, but it races through so fast, I cannot always catch the thought.

Anyhow, today is the day my older brother and his family leave eastern Massachussets and begin their trip south to visit. The boys have Spring Break. They will take their time driving and stop in North Carolina for the weekend to visit with my younger brother and his family. They will arrive here on Monday.

My older brother's creativity is incredible. He was a fine Art/Photography major at the NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He then went on and got his Masters in Computer Science. He has done beautiful blown glass, gorgeous sterling silver jewelry, made wonderful macrame pieces back in the 1970's, and his home now shows his detail oriented woodwork. He has made some of the most beautiful furniture, as well as laying the floors in the family room and their bedroom with Maple and Mahogony. If I can get ahold of some photos, I'll post them.

I need to attend to my porcelain, molds need emptying. I shall return...