Day FOUR

I am really starting to feel the time crunch. I don't see how we (I) am ever going to get done all the things that I want to do . . . .  . 

 

I made some really neat paper out of all the local flora I gathered up between the condo and the classsroom - purple thistle, Queen Ann's lace, ferns, leaves, berries, yellow flowers, grasses.  Put them all in a blender and whirled them up and added them to a paper pulp.  The result was a beautiful pale green paper with multi colored specks that smelled like new mown grass!  Wonderful.  I called it "Beaver Island Blend".  Also made a really nice one out of all my tea dregs blended together.  It also smells great!

Trudy's crew had their first raku firing.  They fired in the fibreglas kiln with the propane burner, then smoked the pieces in cans full of burnables ono the beach.  Nice smoky results.  This is the same class I took a couple of years ago (only there were NINE people in the tiny lab then!  Now there is only a very comfortable five!)