Power By Ringsurf

Hello!

Hello and welcome!

I am new to this, so I hope I do it up right for you.

My Dalmatian, Murcie watches on as I make my first attempts.

My name is Christy, I live in Southern Louisiana and I am an aspiring potter. Besides my family, I have many other loves, including photography, painting, chickens, caterpillars, my many pets, canoeing and gardening.

Yesterday was my 40th birthday. Funny, I used to think people who were 40 were OLD. But, I don't feel so old. I feel like I thought I would feel at 27 or something. But, then again, at some point, I thought I would die before I was 25. Not because I was living dangerously or had some illness, just because I told myself so. Silly girl! Once I turned 24 I thought, this is it, life is over. Then, when my 25th birthday passed I thought, well, it won't be long, now. Each year I have pulled more and more away from the idea of dying young (I had to, I'm not "young" any more).

Now, I'm thinking, since I was so wrong about the dying at 25 thing, maybe I will live to be 200! Well, you can't blame me for thinking outside the box. It's in my nature! Heck, when I'm 200, maybe that will be "young".

Probably due to thoughts of my own early demise, I have always been drawn to the art of death and am about to begin on a series of urns. I am starting with pet urns. I recently lost my dear Kado, a German Shephard, Chow Chow mix that spent 12 great years with us. A necropsy revealed what we had not known. With no signs of the cancer that was lurking in his lungs, he left us suddenly and without warning. Making an urn to commemorate his life will be sweet and sad.

For some time, I have been drawn to implements of burial. I have always wanted to craft my own wooden coffin. I fancy the wooden type of the wild west. I have been told that making my own coffin wouldn't fly, due to some ridiculous laws that state you have to buy some overpriced piece of cardboard junk at exponential prices when your family is grieving and buckles under the pressure of wanting what is "best" for you, putting them and their pocketbooks into depression. I am going to persue this, though, to see if I can "build it myself".

Today is rainy. I like rainy days. My flowers and ducks like them, too! Any day is a good day, even if you have to squint your eyes and turn your head sideways to see it.