Afternoons with Christa

     This is the second Thursday in a row that I spent some time learning about clay with possibly the sweetest person on the planet.  Christa does a ton of stuff at MudWorks and teaching me how to make things has been added to her list.  She is patient and clear in her directions as she teaches you the millions of little steps and details that some of the work involves.  Today for my new thing I created magnets.  Dragonflies, teapots, butterflies and flowers.  All from a lump of clay.  Some of them had many intricate little doodads.  It's a nice feeling to make something from nothing.  Ironically, I came home to see that my caterpillars had turned into the chrysalis that comes next...growth and change everywhere.  I will end the first half of my "year of the new" wrapped up in my cocoon.  The next half will bring the butterfly...