Terra Cotta Turndown...

Well, I did branch out a bit more with my terra cotta pots. Yup. Today was the last day for Johnnie, a co-worker who retired. Wanted to give her something that would remind her of me. So why not a pot with a plant in it? *****So had another blue pot, like I showed in previous post. Tried to make it alittle bit better. Which meant me learnin' how to hang with LESS Mod Podge on me and the pot. The philodendron went in and I thought it's looks OK. The pot didn't quite make me want to beg Neiman-Marcus to put me in that infamous Christmas catalog of theirs. However s'OK.*****Johnnie seemed touched, eventho the plant looked a little 'lived' in. I'll be honest, the cats had munched some of the leaves. I didn't realize how bad, until I cut some of the worst ones away. Johnnie did laugh at that. She thought the pot was 'cute'.*****I watched Johnnie's reaction. It wasn't "OMG, it's gorgeous". It was more like "Yea. OK. It's cute." No exaggeration. See, when Dodger, another co-worker gave Johnnie a darling apron he'd embroidered, Johnnie couldn't stop her gush of Dodger is so talented and should be in business and how wonderful the apron was. We both could be Johnnie's kids. I felt I came home with the C, while Dodger had the A. I looked at my little pitiful flower pot and ....*sighed******So tonight, I've thought what I could have done different? Granted, Johnnie was not a cat person--yet said, she would always remember who gave the pot to her. So maybe I should have done the pot in something different--like what SHE liked. *****In my haste, I want folks to like my pots. I want feedback to improve, that I guess I forgot it was about Johnny. She likes jams. I could have done jam labels or somesuch. Next time...*****Anyway, once I got home, I studied my test pots and pictures. Also even tho cat was on it --something is still missing...Oh well. The positive is I've lost some of my vulnerability in showing my pots. They've got to be better.
*****ALOT better so I can maybe say "OMG!" as Neiman-Marcus hands me a check for the pots they purchased!
Not there----yet. Stay tuned.

10:00 PM

Change does blow in the wind. My job is about to change to something else again. I won't bore you with details, 'cause folks aren't that sure what the details really are. I've not lost my job. It is being skimmed down-infact 500 or so people are being hired for the NEW job that's been put on the table, which includes a part of my job in the new mix. The new job goes live on Aug 1, or needs to be runnin' by them---just something...The thing is, nobody knows. I'm all for risk. Just this is a bit...well.....The other thing is I'm 99.9% sure I'll transfer to another school. I still have to talk to the advisors of the new school. I AM excited. Still the same degree plan--with more depth. The good thing, I can transfer after the current class I'm in. It ends on June 6. I would love for today to be June 5 right now....And my launch into my cat business. Now, I've figured I'm up to TWO, count 'em TWO items. I just hope people like em. And yes, I realize Nieman-Marcus had to start SOMEWHERE! Stay so tuned on all of that. This crafty journey has been--well, a journey, however I'm glad I got on the train to take it....When you think alot of change is going on, and ya wonder--just wonder how it'll all turn out. There's just the look of a cat...

...and ya know, everything is really OK.
It always should be--