Friday night – March 28, 2008
My family and I had an appointment for a GROUP THERAPY session. It’s called: Glass Fusing. We found the concept/opportunity at a pottery painting place local to us. I enjoy referring to it as therapy.
It gave us a chance to sit down together around a table w/out food doing something together but being able to let ourselves show through in our individual project. We chattered about the day. We chattered about the colors. We learned several new things!
How to cut glass was one of the things. One of the best things about it is now that we’ve taken the ‘class’, we can now do that whenever we feel like it, instead of only being limited to painting the pottery.
I feel guilty about a lot of things. And the biggest thing is that I feel like we don’t spend ENOUGH or even a bit of time with the kids or as a family. We have TV. We have our rooms. We have our books to get absorbed into. Yada yada yada. I have my job. etc etc etc. So, planning to go to the studio at least one time a month, while expensive (studio fee plus cost of piece you’re going to work on for a family of four), is something that I appreciate. We created a memory, not only in our own individual minds, but we will also be able to take our creation home. They’ll be ready this Monday after 3:00 pm. FANTASTIC!!
The image above happens to be mine. The plastic grid behind the piece is NOT part of tile I added glass to. And no, I haven’t learned how to get the whole tile on the page for you! I love color. I love being abstract. It’s a concrete representation of all the jumbled things in my brain! Sometimes I have to define things. Other times I just let things fall where they may.
If only I could afford to do this more than one time a month. But we’ve found other things we can do that don’t cost so much or anything at all. There’s a marina with a dog park, and maybe we’ll take the dogs out today with our kids today. There’s the big dog park or local museums and local flavor of things to do.
I want the quality time with my kids. I want the memories for when I’m old and gray. I want to be able to say, yes, I gave them everything I could PLUS time and an education of the world around us.
wendikelly Said:
on March 30, 2008 at 9:12 am
This is really cool. When my husband and I got married, we made a mosaic candle holder with my kids and him to hold our family candle for the therapy. Then we painted on our New famiy.s family values. Now it is a centerpice on our dining room table.
I love this..