Planet Ruby Starrs

I sort of lost my creative mojo, it just waned for quite a long time  - but it didn't stop me going to pottery. for almost a year.. I've currently stopped classes for now but I will return once I'm back from the big adventure and potentially solvent again!   I will never be a potter - this much is true - I really enjoy the process but it takes a lot of practice and patience neither of which I have...  - I love Loveheart Workshops where I have been taught the basics of producing ceramics - first I made a mug (which someone asked if my 11year old grand daughter had made!!) then a rather messy coil pot - a slab jug - all these could gladly go to the charity shop except - of course I MADE THEM - so they are reprieved and will languish somewhere in out general mish mish of eclectic junk - I made a storage jar and this I quite like.  a mug in the making While I enjoy the fashioning of the clay - I like the tactile nature of building something - and I love how something so dull an

Everywhere you look Christmas trees and decorations are springing up - it started even in November!!! I think its a sign of the times, people are looking for some joy and colour in a world which feels very hard and austere at the moment... and its true - life for a lot of people is hard, and I worked for many years in a social welfare setting that often sent me home appreciative of what I had - especially at Christmas time.  The television is still full of adverts for luxurious presents and supermarkets showing tables groaning with food - totally unrealistic even in a good year - but this year, while every bit of press scaremongers us into thinking the world is ending- we will all die of hypothermia or starvation - we are still encouraged to buy buy buy.. and celebrate this festive season with greed and gluttony -  it feels obscene - yes this is a rant - and I am well aware that many - too many- people are in fuel poverty and food prices have escalated beyond commonly acceptable levels