The Past Six Weeks

It has been very busy here for the past six weeks and yet I haven't seemed to get much done! Most of my obligations have been social obligations like prom and a fundraiser. I also got a new puppy which put a stop to everything else for a while. Her name is aurora, but everyone just calls her Rori. She is very sweet and I love her dearly, but the first couple of weeks were slightly taxing! The first week or so she got up around 2-4 times a night. Luckily no she has started sleeping through the night. 

This was the first night I brought her home! She was only five weeks old. She was so small and fluffy!

We went and got her some toys and a collar a couple of days after we brought her home.

Sleeping is one of her favorite past times. 

Rori isn't the only addition to our family full of animals though. We have also started a fowl yard in our backyard. We have both ducks and chickens.

These are the newest set of ducks. We have two full grown ducks as well.

Here are the two big ducks and some of the chickens. They didn't like it when we were building their yard.

Although Rori takes up quite a bit of my time, I have managed to get a few things done craft wise. I have resently started making bookmarks and I have gotten a new pair of baby booties done. I have also started a pottery class! 

I found the pattern for the baby booties on Pinterest. The pattern is by Lenore English. It was a very easy pattern to follow, and that is coming from someone who hates (and hate is not to strong a word) following patterns. (I did tweak it a bit... 😋)

This is the first pot I ever threw. I am quite pleased with it. Although I wish I had glazed it differently then I did because it got a little ruff where I had to hold it with my fingered during glazing. Pictures of the finished product next week.

This is a cup I finished trimming on Thursday. It is so far my favorite! It should have gone to the first firing on Friday and it will be ready to glaze next Thursday!

This is the oatmeal bowl I finished with the cup above. 

These are the two pots I threw on Thursday.

Also for the fundraiser I was a part of I painted one of those boards that you find at the pumpkin patch and things like that for taking pictures. 

He is still missing his shoes here but I seem to not have a picture of him completely done yet. We were using him so we could throw pies at doctors. We thought it was only fitting at a children's hospital!

All in all I suppose it hasn't been a completely unproductive past 6 weeks.