Things you make don't have to be perfect. Personally, I like to make bowls
that wiggle and twist; velly intelisting vot?
Tom
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On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:48:43 -0500, Barry N. Turner wrote:
Know your customer..........................
Barry
I'm in my 50's and she still has the paper tracing I made of my hand in
kindergarten. She gave me back the silhouette of my head from third grade
and the slanted book shelf I made in 7th grade. She kept the pie server
from 9th grade. Now her eyesight is failing her pretty rapidly. She'll be
able to see the really nice figuring and coloration but will never notice
the swirl marks in the bottom of the bowl. They'll be covered up with the
Jordan Almonds I'm sending along, anyways. :-)
I didn't want to leave the impression that I was thinking along the
disrespectful lines of "Oh, it's just Mom .. I can send her just any old
junk." The truth is, with the exception of my wife and sons, my Mom is
probably the only member of my family who would not go over the gift piece
with a magnifying glass and then pounce on me for any flaw ... real or
imagined ... no matter how minor it might be. I'm learning as I go and
this is the first piece I think is good enough to let get away from my
control. It's got flaws ... so did the hand tracing ... but she's still my
Mom and it's okay if she knows that I am not perfect.
Bill
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