Sunday, June 06, 2010

All fired up at PaintAway

As a surprise for her birthday, I brought Elisabeth to PaintAway to create a ceramic masterpiece. 

She chose to paint a big mug…

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…while I chose to make a “match-up” teapot for Tom for our upcoming anniversary.

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It was a quiet afternoon at PaintAway, so we had the place all to ourselves.

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When we were finished, we left our “masterpieces” at PaintAway to be fired.

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(We also left a godawful mess.)

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Fast forward a week or so and… voila!

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2 comments:

  1. Margaret6/06/2010 8:32 PM

    Your pieces look very cool! We have done that at our local mall(went out of business) and in Tacoma(went out of business) and then in Bellingham(still in business I hope!) It was very fun.

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  2. Goofball6/07/2010 2:38 AM

    I'd never be able to paint something decent on ceramics I fear. Some abstract lines but that's it.

    And I'd be worried that I'd be under the paint myself

    nevertheless it's a very original activity! Seems like a lot of fun to do.

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