Break Time!

I have most of the month of December off from teaching my classes at Portland Pottery. It's great, and it's not; I don't get paid, & I miss my students, but, you know, free time! Every year, I think I am going to get SO much done on my break. Every year the first week is spent preparing for holiday shows & delivering ware, & the second is spent...well, I believe the kids call it "bed rotting." 

Not entirely, of course; I still do laundry & dishes, and other basic household stuff; I still take my mom grocery shopping. I even still do my (admittedly pretty minimal) morning workout, I still cook. What I don't do? Go into the studio. Like, at all, that whole week. Which is weird because in the lead up to the break, I spend a lot of time thinking about all the stuff I want to make! But I can't seem to do it. My studio is in the same disorderly state I left it in at the end of the glazing marathon for the last firing. 

That all changes today! The 2nd week of my four-week break ended yesterday, and while I do still have some holiday stuff to do, I think my brain has had its needed hiatus.