Friday - First Friday Lunch With Old Friends

Friday was the First Friday Lunch at Clayworks.  I am sad to say I have never attended this studio function before now, but I had to this time since our dear friend Ju-Ian was back from Shanghai for a visit.  It was a nice lunch with good friends and acquaintances and it was great to see Ju-Ian.  I also had a pleasant surprise to find out that our friend Karla had moved back to the area and I look forward to seeing her around the studio.

There was a great turnout and a grand buffet of exotic foods.  I brought Jīn bāoyín, which Ju-Ian taught me literally means "gold wrapping silver".  It's fried rice made by adding the egg at the end instead of cooking the egg in the beginning and chopping it up to add to the rice.

I had a great time and will try to attend more First Friday Lunches in the future.

A feast!

There were so many people we spilled over to the members area.

The whole crew.

Gina insisted on taking one with yours truly in the picture.

Sorry.

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Saturday 2009-03-28

Saturday was Muddy Fun day! We had two classes full of great students and the time just flew by us.





Karla teaches the Saturday classes for young people. They always seem like they're having so much fun it makes me want to wander over there for a while.




Scott, Elaine, and Max. Max was showing them pictures of pottery that he took at a New York museum (oops, I forgot which one!). The pieces looked completely contemporary and they were made anywhere from 800 to 1270. It was amazing. You can check some of them out here on Max's blog.