Showing posts with label trivet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trivet. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

A Wednesday Highlight - Porcelain


My Daughter Jackie say's I should feature a piece of porcelain so here goes. Today it's china painting. This is a porcelain trivet painted the traditional china painting method. Each piece of porcelain is fired multiple times as the colors are intensified with each painting. This trivet can be used for a hot plate or as a decorative piece, hung on the wall. It is $14.99 and available for sale in my Etsy shop:

I've been Tagged???? Not sure what this means:
Cora says I must tell 5 things about myself that most people (at least my online friends) wouldn't know. Then I am to tag 5 more people! This is hard, as I've done it before, but I'll do my best to come up with another 5 things.

Here goes:
1. I am going to Italy the day after Easter on a church pilgrimmage.
2. I learned to ice skate on my brother's ice hockey skates--with no stops and I'd fall to stop.
3. My mother ran over my dog with the car when I was little.
4. I learned to swim by being tossed off a pier with the words, "Swim or drown". I swam.
5. I burn jello


I tag: Suzie http://cackleblossums.blogspot.com/ , Jackie http://mrtlovesme.livejournal.com/ ,


Kay Butler http://therusticcottage.blogspot.com/ , Angela http://thecountrycellar.blogspot.com/ , Tammy http://rockriverstitches.blogspot.com/




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