So, as you may have noticed if you have been following along since January. The monthly list of throwing challenges is… flexible.
May was intended to be the month I made a brie baker/warmer. But it’s hot. No one needs baked brie right now… my husband will surely disagree with this statement. I do plan to make the brie baker/warmer still, and it will be ready in time for the cozy fall weather - probably.
I decided to focus on making some bookend/wall hanging planters this month as May leads into June and now that I am a potter - gifts are typically handmade for my girlfriends. 3/4 of us have June birthdays and one in July. So it was time to start getting creative with them in mind.
Up first was Samantha because I am still struggling with what to make Meghan and Alex — note the posting date is in July, though I am only technically behind on Meghan’s — who turns out decided to make herself a matcha bowl in the pottery class she has been taking with her partner — cool cool cool - back to the drawing board now lol.
Anyway - Sami really loves sunflowers, and I got her hooked on plants during the period of time that we lived together as adults - we only had a bamboo plant in college - which to this day is alive despite my mom’s cat trying to murder it last year. Sami also reads… like a lot. She should turn this superpower into a profession - as of the date of this post she has already read 100 books this year. Yeah - so I took out my paint brushes and what little hand building skills I have and made some bookends out a planter I threw, then chopped in half, then added slabs to and subsequently painted a large sunflower on. I was a bit nervous about how they would turn out as the felt a little rushed.
Side note - my husband and I finally went on our honeymoon trip to Europe 7 months after the wedding - this took up most of the making time of May - so I had like 8 days left in May when I started these.
But even with not having a lot of time for trial ones — I love the way they turned out. Amazing. I have a black set for myself to hang on the wall above our fake fireplace so I can have a large pothos plant climbing around our wedding portrait - if I ever get around to hanging it.
