Ceramics in the Springtime

I had a very lovely time tonight! After cycling and dinner Brian and I met up with Jess and Gwen over at Sunfire Ceramics. We'd never been before but thought doing some painting would be a fun Thursday activity to do with Jess/a nice mini date night. I have to admit when the Sunfire girl gave us the run down of how to do the whole paint your own ceramics thing I was a bit overwhelmed. First you have to choose from around 100 pieces of pottery which one you want to paint. They varied in price from a few bucks for small pieces to $40-$50 for larger ones. Then you choose from over 40 different paint colors which ones you want to use. They charge you $4 to use the paints. Then you have to decide what you are going to paint. They have stencils, sponges, or you could just free-hand. I had a lot of trouble deciding what to do. I thought I might want to do a coffee cup, but then I couldn't think of what I would paint. Then I thought I would do one of the small statues, maybe a Jayhawk, but I still wanted to be a bit more creative. I finally settled on a cute egg shaped plate. I thought I could do something Eastery. Brian ended up doing a stake for our garden that he labeled chili peppers. Jess decide that she and Gwen would work on a piggy bank for Gwen's room.

We had a really nice time. The painting was really fun and relaxing. I could have done it for hours. They also make the process really user friendly. All the tools you need are set up in the garage of the shop and all you do is take what you need and pay when you're done. We are supposed to pick ours up on Saturday or Sunday after they have been fired. Here's what mine looks like now.

I'm sure it will look really cute once it's been fired. I definitely hope we can go back and do it again sometime. It would be a great idea for a gift for someone. Not very expensive and easy to personalize!