Tiny Totems:  Joy (not quite finished – need to coler her heart); Love and Memories, created for a miniatures show where nothing can be larger than 3" x 5" – these are just that size.  Wall plaques, one of a kind, hand made by Tammy Vitale $22 each.

More for this week's great firing. 

Today I am celebrating the receipt of 12 (count 'em!) 36" x 36" canvasses – holiday gift from me to me – yesterday afternoon.  If time permits this evening, you will see a picture of the celebration gang in front of the box – but right now I must run.

thought for the day: To live with courage in any work or in any organization, we must know intimately the part of us that does not give a damn about the organization or the work.  that knows how to live outside the law as well as within it…With a healthy outlaw approach, we are outside the laws of predictable cause and effect and inside the intensity of creative originality.  We have a gleam in our eye; we look to the edtges of things; no one really knows what we are up to.  We see with the eyes of those who do not quite belong.  We are dangerous again, and glad to be so.  David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea:  Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity