Good Evening, my kittens! Much has happened since my last posting. I received a visit from a Famous Blogger, Professor and Author . I have done many loads of laundry. I have ironed many shirts. I have drank (drunken?) many, many martinis. I have started a new pottery session at a new studio. But, all of these are stories for another time. For, now, I must tell you the sad, sad Tale of the Platter of Trials and Tribulations ... Once upon a time, in a pottery studio far, far away, there was a pottery student who decided to make a fun platter. As he was throwing the fun platter, the walls became to thin. And one of the walls developed a crack. His pottery teacher had a great idea. By making diagonal cuts similar to the crack, he could create an interesting folded/braided edge to the platter. However, as he was doing this, the crack became worse, so the pottery student had to cut a half circle in the wall of the platter. He b...