Cora's Special Plate

This is the project I did at "The Pottery Place" here in town, where you paint pottery and they fire it to turn it into glazed magic. I made a tile for Evan when he was sealed to us in the Los Angeles Temple but that time I had my sister Ashley to help me. I was all 'alone' this time (the kids were with me in the stroller. there should have a been a camera to record the hilarity of me trying to be creative while babysitting my mildly cranky children. lol). I am proud to say I completely free handed the temple from a photo I took lately. I didn't even pencil it first (which burns off in the firing process) so you could say I'm impressed with myself! :). Anyway, this is the before and after for firing it in the kiln (all photos taken from my camera phone if they look weird:

 Front Before

After

Back Before

Back side After.

Evan, Mike's and my thumbprints below Cora's hand print. If I wasn't in such a hurry/kids weren't with me, I would have liked to embellish this and also to make the whole thing look more polished. Overall I am very pleased! It is a treasure that I hope Cora will love all her life. I am also planning to water color them each a picture of the temple they were sealed in, by itself, no writing on it. I have never used water colors before but they can't be harder than this pottery paint... right? ;) We shall see. he he he.