Well I am once again tickled with my painted pottery pieces! I got them back today and I love them! I wanted to make a 6-8 pc. set but they were a little more expensive than I originally thought. So I only made four. Maybe I can go back at some other point and finish the set.
I'm not sure you are able to tell from the pictures but these are nice deep cereal bowls. And yes I intend to use them.
This one below was the last one I did and I was running out of time. I didn't know if I got all the coats on it or not. It turns out it is my favorite one.
If I did make 2 more, I have no idea what colors I would choose, maybe an orange one with purple and pink one with teal.
Well last Saturday when I went to paint, the kids had auditions for the next kid's summer play. It is an original and I think it is called Paper Bag Princess. I have to be honest. I didn't want to go to auditions. We didn't pick out a song until the last minute and I don't think they had much time to practice it. Unfortunately, the piece the boys picked was HARD! It was Sondheim's Another hundred people. I don't have a recording of the boys singing it, but you can hear the song
here to get an idea of how hard it was. Now with that being said, Mason nailed it! And Aussie didn't do so well BUT he nailed the reading. The director said he had them in stitches. Ashley sang a song from Sondheim's Pacific Overtures called The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea. We could not find music to accompany her so we sent music sheets with her for the accompanist to play. I was nervous since she hadn't practiced at all with an accompanist. Anyway, it turned out that the accompanist wasn't coming until later in the day so she sang it a capella, which I think actually turned out for the better. I don't have a recording of her but you can hear the song she sang
here.
After they auditioned they met me at McDonald's for lunch. Ashley begged to come back to the pottery store and paint with me. So she came back with me and she painted this horse.
Yes, it's cute. Yes she had some great Mommy time. Yes, she loved doing it and well I should stop there, but I can't help but think I could have painted almost 2 more bowls for the price of the horse. !Ay Caramba!
Oh well I love her and she had fun!
So back to the play, Ms. Cori wanted Mason to come back on Monday to read for a specific part. Unfortunately, Mason got sick. We thought it might have been car sickness, but later that day I got sick too. So maybe it was something we ate. Anyway, instead of going back to read we were able to record him reading the part and send it to Ms. Cori.
We were told their roles for sure on Tuesday.
Ashley will play one of the sassy trees.
Aussie will play the jester. (We had to talk him into this. Even though he is hysterical and has awesome timing, he doesn't like to be laughed at.)
And Mason got the role of Prince Ronald.
I'm really tickled about it. They had so many kids sign up that they had to do 2 casts. I have no idea what cast will be on what day. And I'm sure Ms. Cori doesn't know yet either, since they haven't started practicing.
Their performances will be June 28- June 30, July 1, July 5th-7th.
