When I taught that dottery class last weekend, I realized something: dottery is all about letting go of any tendencies to perfectionism and just winging it. I call it “eyeballing it.”

I only spent about five minutes explaining and demonstrating my dottery technique. The rest of the class I alternated between painting my plate, answering questions, and encouraging my students to just go with the flow of their dotting and not worry about little mistakes. And of course laughing, because we had a lot of fun! They all produced such beautiful and unique pieces, see?

Thanks for making the class so fun, ladies! And thank you, Anna, for inviting me to teach! Anytime you want me to teach another class, you just let me know.

p.s. New banner! Gracias, B!

As you will probably be able to tell if you have looked at my Flickr lately, we’ve been keeping busy. And now, as you might infer from that photo of Annalie and Aurora above, we’re in Omaha for a visit and we’re still busy. I’m hoping I’ll have time to blog about some of the fun stuff keeping us busy very soon.