Painting Pottery

I'd been wanting to take Addie pottery painting for a while. But, we do NOT have a girl that does well doing things we want her to do, and when she was teeny tiny and we needed to get her handprint for a keepsake, it was a NIGHTMARE. Then, when she was one, I wanted her to paint some pictures for the new playroom. Torture. You would have thought I had removed her fingeres to paint with them. I think, I'm not sure, that I'm finally past those two incidents, and was brave enough to take her pottery painting.

However, she was Grumpy McGrumpy-pants that day. She wasn't a ton of fun, but we did at least leave with two precious keepsakes.

I just got Addie a plain, cheap plate, and she picked the colors. Pink, purple, and green, naturally. I think she did a great job of covering the plate and not making it a grayish-brown mess from mixing the paints!

See, not my typical sweet, happy girl.

And her final project - the gray along the outside looks more pink now that it's been fired and glazed (Now that I finally picked it up 2 months later. I'm glad they didn't throw it out!)

And my final product! I was quite pleased! Laurie had done this with Aiden and I'd always loved it - I'm happy to have my own now!