Update!
Well, making a money box did not get me anywhere. I had received a notice from the town tax collector that my families 1820 brick farmhouse would go up for back tax auction in about 30 days.
I made an attempt to sell a special pot, the money box, to pay off some of the debt.
Thank all of you who bought one! But I didn't make it. Not even close. A credit card appeased Mr. Cordova, and I went back to making more pots.
I did have a good year, 2012, got lots more demonstration gigs at fairs, and a nice part time job helping out some florists and their girls.
So I am still here in the house. Not quite like my dream...the imaginary painting I did above, but I am still here! Yeh!
Now though, I have a new project. I have printed a book. Tape Loom Weaving... Simplified.
This is going quite well and with 6 new gigs coming up this year, I plan to be debt free by December.. God willing and if the Creeks don't rise*.
I also updated my web site. It has a totally new look and a totally new outreach.
www.eastknollpottery.com
Reggie
As a side note, I have been using this phrase and never looked up the origins till now....
*Benjamin Hawkins, and the phrase would be correctly written as 'God willing and the Creek don't rise'. Hawkins, college-educated and a well-written man would never have made a grammatical error, the capitalization of the word Creek, which is a reference to the Creek Indians. If the Creek "rose", Hawkins would have to be present to quell the rebellion.
Hawkins wrote the words in response to a request from President Thomas Jefferson to return to Washington D.C.I believe that the phrase is somewhere in Hawkins preserved writings at the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah.
