Hello Gnat&Bee. Well, thus far into your class offering with our instructor RHINO I have thoroughly enjoyed the process, i.e. website advertising and sign up was efficient and validated upon my arrival, the pre-class guidance provided me with a choice of a malleable pottery shapes (I chose a ~9" plate) which I then allowed to directly influence my design theme so that I had ample time to prepare for my general approach when actually listening to instructions in the class, but probably most importantly that I began to narrow down my design ideas to just two [2] by the time class started, RHINO's methods of instruction seemed based upon her accumulated expertise relationship with this medium to the extent that I felt, and I believe the general class of cohorts would mostly agree, confident that she believed in our abilities to accomplish somethings within the allotted time with the tools and talents we then had at our singular and class/team levels, RHINO also seemed at ease with the diversity of the students and their respective goals, the dynamics of changing goals, ambitions, reservations, and enthusiasm. So, in conclusion for now as I have not yet received notification that my piece survived the final processing steps yet, I am interested to evaluate my investment in time, talents, and money upon delivery of my pottery plate. What I might emphasize as a base level of excitement for this piece, beyond my own design excerpt of some forty-seven (47) ago (which I had then transferred onto a leather medium for a wallet gift to my childhood friend Scotty) is the fact that RHINO paused long enough to carve her own signature into the back of my pottery plate (by my request), which was shaped by her own hands, amongst all of her other instructor's duties during our class. To which I am guessing that my friend would have appreciated the MOST. And as he has been deceased for some years now, I am still in contact with some of his surviving family members, who may yet be willing to receive my pottery plate as an ode to my friend's memory once my own parents have the opportunity to place their own signatures upon same. Thank you Natalie for being the entrepreneurial "spirit type" who continues to demonstrate that your business is growing at some rate and along your time horizon you seem to know how to slow the continuum of time, reminding everyone who is paying attention, that while your: teas, bath balms, artisian foods and crafts, etc. can be very important items to consider for purchasing, your business philosophy seems rooted within a holistic/whole+is+TICK balance called: LIFE, i.e. the quality is SO, the quantity is SO, SO meditate if you want to upon IT, try to enjoy the process enough that we begin again, or once again, to appreciate the differences, all the TICK tock while.
