Life’s Lessons

I’ve been talking about ceramic pottery in my previous posts and my desire to learn that skill to make it as a hobby and eventually turn to a small business. Who wouldn’t like that idea of income generating hobby? As much as I want to learn ceramic pottery, I don’t think potters here could offer me ceramic art education because when I asked one potter, she was so timid in giving out info on how they make the ceramic pots. She just mentioned the pots will be put in a kiln for a day or two. She cannot share where they are getting their pottery supplies, either. So there’s no way to get information from them. I just need to find an institution that offers training on ceramic pottery.

There are children’s art classes now that are teaching classroom ceramics. I could join them if I want to but I feel like I am too old to be in that group. What if I learn the skill by myself? Like what I am good at….learning something all by self thru trial and error. I don’t it won’t hurt and I can get one of those art lesson plans from AMACO pottery supplies. Children’s classes may just be for crafts but it will be a nice start to learn pottery. What do you think?

Aside from home remedies, I am a person who loves DIY (do-it-yourself) things. Though at times there’s no way I can do it at home, I still search for do-it-yourself stuffs online. What prevents me from pursuing DIY projects is the inavailability of the tools and supplies not to mention the monetary resources to buy the tools needed to do a project. So DIY projects such as the lamp shade, picture frames, and cabinets are still on hold.

Another DIY project that I am interested to is making my own ceramic clay pots even just for fun! If only I have a kiln even just an art clay kiln where to bake those ceramics and the ever reliable brent pottery wheels, nothing could stop me from doing colorful pieces of ceramics unless of course if I cannot find supplies for ceramic colors that I want. But hey, AMACO has pottery supplies, right? Must check their site now to check what they have. Should I learn pottery, I wanted this to be one of my hobbies for I know it is a nice therapy to fight boredom and depression. I am not bored and depressed though. It’s just one nice thing to do offline. Who knows, that hobby will turn out to be an income-generating hobby in the future. Thinking about that makes me want to undergo pottery lessons soon!

Back-up time again. I am making a back-up file of the photos saved in the computer so I could delete those that are already uploaded in Flickr® hoping that the PC’s performance would improve if there’s a lot of free disk space already. I wouldn’t push myself to do back-up if there’d be no notification that the free memory space is less than 1 gigabyte. Talk about the great procastinator!hahaha. Burning photos is also a pain because the PC is too slow and one DVD lasts for more than an hour. That is why I almost don’t wanna do back-up of our files because my momentum is interrupted. What a good justification!*lol*

Anyway, based on my Flickr® stats, I’ve already uploaded 18,000++ photos and I am not yet halfway of all our files. Sadly, we don’t have print copies of our photos. I always wanted to have some photos printed so I could frame it but I am too lazy to resize it. I need to resize it to my desired print size so it won’t be cropped when it will come out from the printing machine (because people in photo printing shops are too lazy to resize the photos). Now if I can’t have our photos printed, might as well have a digital frame like the one in the picture so relatives and friends may also see our photos since most of them love to see their faces in the picture. I chanced upon that frame in buy[dot]com and it is so tempting because it is free shipping! Wish I have the funds to purchase that online.