Look What I Made!

I had the BEST birthday party ever last Saturday! There is something very special about celebrating your birthday with an intimate group of women with similar interests. This year it's the big 5-0. Hard to believe sometimes.

My friend Audrey set up a private ceramic throwing lesson at Muddy's Studio in Santa Ana, CA. A big spacious, well equipped ceramics studio.

Gina was our teacher. And she was fabulous! With only 6 of us, she was really able to give us each a lot of personal attention.

We each had a wheel and got almost instantly smudged with clay all over. We learned how to center the ball of clay (I almost wrote dough) on the wheel, how to start a shape with our thumbs and fingers, how to use our arms and backs to put even pressure on the clay, etc.

Look what I made! Four pots total. The odd shaped one on the top left was my first pot. Not sure where I was going with it but suddenly it turned and looked like a wave. Instead of a mistake it became art!

Collectively in the 3-hour lesson we made this many!

Then we had my favorite low brow spaghetti dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory in Fullerton.

Audrey brought a super perfect cake. White cake, layered with strawberry mouse and strawberries, all covered in whip cream icing and baby cream puffs. Can I say YUM!!!

And even though I'm 50, no longer a kid, I love, just loved having a birthday party. I act like a kid most of the time anyway so it's lucky I still look like one.

Love and thanks to Audrey and the girls for sharing the day with me. Just the BEST.