Today I’m supposed to be working around the house getting it all clean for our trip which I’m doing. I have my sheets in the dryer, laundry is all finished and my ironing is almost all complete. I need to dust, run the vacuum, clean my bathroom and I’ll have my chores finished.

I got a little side tracked when I watched my favorite show on HGTV this afternoon. I love, LOVE, LOVE Crafters Coast To Coast and tape it every day. Today they featured a potter using something I had never heard of – gloves. Who would have thought of something so genius while throwing on the wheel? I love it when someone else thinks outside the box and I just happened to pick up on it. He never said a word about it but I was completely taken-a-back by how genius it looked.

I immediately dropped everything I was doing and put my work on hold for a min while I went to my studio and had my very own experiment with gloves. WOW! I not only loved using the gloves while I was throwing but I also liked the cleanup afterwards. It always takes quite a little while for me to clean up as I have wet clay everywhere, all up the sides of my arms and the worst is getting all that clay out from underneath my fingernails. I have an old toothbrush that I use on my nails to make them good as new. Today however was a breeze. I finished throwing my bowl, folded in the sides to make an interesting form on the outside, took off my gloves and Ta Da, my hands are CLEAN!

I’ll cover the bowl in plastic to keep it moist so that I can finish it when we return. I plan to add 3 long coiled feet to the bowl once its leather hard and who knows what other details will follow. I won’t be able to smooth the sides ‘til after we return but here is an idea of what I made and what my hands would have looked like when I was finished.