Last week, while Ryan was finishing up finals, Matthew and I decided to give him some quiet time by taking a little walk downtown in Lexington, which included a trip into Creative Kiln, a new Paint-Your-Own-Pottery shop that recently opened in Lexington. I love painting pottery, especially in a place that will just clean up my mess for me when I'm done! Here are our masterpieces, inspired by Ed Emberley's FunPrint Drawing Book
I think we'll use these as coasters. I have to say, I like Matthew's thumbprint art (the one with the frogs) much better than my own. Matthew isn't big into arts and crafts projects yet (he'd rather sit and play with cars and trucks), but I think he had fun doing this. He was even OK with getting his hands dirty, which he's not usually really into.
TOO CUTE!
Posted by: margene | May 10, 2006 at 12:28 PM
Those are cute!!! I like them a lot. Hmmm ... wish I had seen this sooner - that would have been a cute mother's day present for some grandmas!
Posted by: Brandie | May 10, 2006 at 01:30 PM
Those are so wonderfully cute! And it looks like a great way to spend quality time. ;)
Posted by: Kit | May 10, 2006 at 01:53 PM
Those are really adorable!!
Posted by: Isela | May 10, 2006 at 04:58 PM
i have posted photos of the sort of which they are stuck onto the icebox. Very colorful and nifty kitchen ornament.
Posted by: Chef Bertha | November 27, 2008 at 09:32 AM
Did the Pottery shop fire the tiles? I was wondering what kind of paint they used.
Posted by: Judy Polak | October 21, 2010 at 06:00 PM
Yep, it was one of those paint-your-own-pottery sort of places. No idea on the paint--I think it was just the standard fire-able ceramic paint for kilns, but I've also seen paint in stores specifically for painting on tile and fired ceramic that doesn't have to be put in the kiln.
Kim
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Posted by: Kimberly P | October 21, 2010 at 06:39 PM