Hopefully I will be back on top of things in another day or two. If my Nurse Doggos have anything to say about it, I won't be moving off the couch from about five minutes from now until some time Monday morning!

… including these heckin' cute planters that I made for the show but they didn't get packed. If you are so inclined, you can find them (and other recently stocked goodies) here: www.haldecraft.com/collections/.... Thanks, y'all!

Or like intense chalk drawings on sidewalks that are beginning to melt and mix in the rain! I don't even know how to describe these colors. Browns, but yellows. Reds, but whites. Blues, but silvers. Oranges, but also kind of pinkish. Oh… it's just all the colors of an old-timey sepia-tinted photo!

Slowly over the next week I'll be catching up on sleep but also adding things to the website as I get them unpacked and photographed. It was wonderful to see so many smiling faces yesterday. I love you, Gainesville! 🤎

…. success is leaping from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. Don't let failure grind you down.

It just means that something went wrong; that sometimes things are beyond your control no matter how you plan them. If I can paraphrase a quote that's sometimes attributed to Winston Churchill and sometimes to Abraham Lincoln although neither one conclusively …

I more just wanted to talk about how sometimes, you can do everything right, you can do test tiles and figure out what you want and it can still go wrong at the last minute. And it doesn't mean you're an idiot, it doesn't mean you're a talentless hack.

How about you? What are you working on this week? Anything fun? Anything you're looking forward to finishing? Tell me what you're up to!

She is so organized, so on top of things, and so genuine and kind that she's really spoiled me for other events! So I'm almost packed, although I still have some soap to wrap and at least one more kiln firing I want to get to. I'm in that "running around like a chicken with my head cut off" stage.