| Need a new lamp in the living room?
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| | and it would be a shame to throw it away.
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| Instead of shopping around and hoping
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| | For the ceramist, this is no problem.
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| that you will find something which only
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| | Rather, it is an opportunity. All that
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| resembles what you desire, make it
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| | need be done is to make another handle
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| yourself. It is not hard, really, once
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| | out of clay, striving, of course, to make
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| you have mastered the basic techniques of
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| | it handsomer than the original.
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| making ceramic wares. Once started, you
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| | These are but a few of the things you can
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| will find no end of things of their
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| | accomplish after gaining a little
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| children's development. The kindergarten
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| | background knowledge and practical
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| boy or girl brings home drawings made on
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| | experience. Stop and think for a few
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| cheap paper -which in a few years crumble
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| | minutes and you'll be able to come up
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| into dust, much to the parent's dismay.
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| | with many, many others. Just to run
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| However, if these same drawings, so much
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| | through the alphabet, there are: ash
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| treasured by parents, were done on tile,
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| | trays, bells, cigarette boxes, dresser
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| they would never fade; the colors would
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| | sets, egg cups, figurines, gravy dishes,
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| remain vivid and fresh as the day they
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| | hat pins, inkwells, jam jars, lockets,
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| were made.
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| | mirror frames, napkin rings, ocarinas,
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| Among the most popular do-it-yourself
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| | pipe holders, quatrefoil wall plaques,
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| projects today is the tile-topped coffee
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| | razor holders, saltcellars, thimbles,
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| table. In a fine furniture shop such a
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| | umbrella handles, vases, window boxes,
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| table would cost an absolute minimum of
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| | Yule cards, zipper tags for children
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| $100. Yet, the ceramics hobbyist in his
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| | which bear the wearer's name and address.
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| spare time can produce just as fine a
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| | You could probably compile a similar list
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| table quite simply and at one-fourth the
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| | in short order. Perhaps, you will even
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| price.
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| | think of a ceramic something that begins
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| Similarly, when gift-giving time rolls
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| | with the letter X. Many ceramists have
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| around, you can present your family and
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| | turned their hobby into profitable
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| friends with things no one else could
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| | sidelines by conceiving of new ceramic
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| possibly give them things you have
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| | forms.
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| created especially for each of them. Your
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| | The vast majority of professional clay
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| gifts, though inexpensive to make, will
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| | workers today got their start as amateur
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| bear the which can be made for the home
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| | hobbyists, just like you. After they
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| and your own personal adornment. The most
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| | advanced far enough, they found that
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| ordinary article can be given real,
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| | people were willing to pay for the
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| lasting beauty with a bit of imagination
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| | ceramic goods they produced.
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| on the ceramist's part.
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| | Of course it is nice to be able to make
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| Take, as an example, a commonplace
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| | your hobby pay for itself. And it's even
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| kitchen knife. Let us say the handle is
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| | nicer if you can earn a living by doing
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| broken. The blade, however, is fine steel
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| | something you enjoy.
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