This Sunday my mother’s family had a reunion, and to make this one even better the whole thing had a genealogy purpose. Now I personally have about a 5-10 minute threshold for genealogy things, so after I learned that they had traced my mother’s, father’s family back to the 1840 in Lithuania I left. Eventually my cousin Aliza showed me her potter’s wheel. Now I had always wanted to use a potter’s wheel, so she gave me a lesson. The pictures below don’t really need an explanation.
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ReplyDeleteNice pot.
ReplyDeleteWOAH!!! As someone who has used a potter's wheel before I can say that that was an EXTREEMLY impressve first attempt.
ReplyDeleteActuallly better than I ever got in a whole SEMESTER of pottery.
It actualy was my second attept, and it is much harder than it looks.
ReplyDeleteYour mother's father's family dates back to Lithuania in the 1840s! What a coincidence! Wow, I wonder if your related to ...
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