Friday, September 20, 2013

Sgraffito


           Sgraffito is a super cool glazing and designing technique, where the glaze is applied before firing the pot, and the design is later scratched off the suface of the pot. I really enjoyed this process, and I'm looking forward to using this technique again. It was pretty nerve-racking in the beginning, but I think that'll happen to me every time I have to carve the design onto the clay. If I could do anything differently, it might be to practice with all the different tools before I actually start on the piece. All in all, I'm really happy about how it turned out. 





 This Sgraffito wall art thing is awesome! 

Friday, September 6, 2013

I missed you too, Mrs. Gleeson!


      Ah, Mrs. Gleeson! I did so many things this summer! Everything is a little hard to believe, but I went to both Disney world and traveled around Europe. My cousins and my uncle and aunt came up from Argentina for two weeks and we all went to Disney. Since they're so little, dragged my parents on all the roller coasters with me. The kids would get tired quickly, too, so in the end, I was the only one that wanted to stay in the parks for longer, while everyone else was ready to go back to the hotel and to the pool. Okay and then the coolest part;  I freaking TOURED EUROPE with a MUSIC GROUP. Jeez, I'm stil not quite sure if that was all real. We mades stops in Austria, Germany, Italy, Croatia, and Slovenia. Everything over there is so old... yet beautiful. There's little colorful houses with red shingled roofs, the mountains are green everywhere,  and their water good enough to drink. Croatia really surprised us; we spent three days at a beach, swimming in the crystal waters of the Mediterranean Sea. 
      In short, my summer was spectacular. As for books, I read a couple of John Green books I hadn't read before, but I can't think of anything really awesome. If you haven't read The Book Thief, you definitely should. 
      I just really wan to get on the wheel and see what happens! And I promised my mom a pitcher at some point this year. 



    • Title your blog post:  "I miss you too, Mrs. Gleeson!"
    • Write about one thing that happened to you over the summer (good, bad, exciting).
    • Any cool links I should know about?  Good books, movies, music?
    • Do you have any ideas for a project that we can do?