Ta dah!

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The finished piece, ready for drying. I'm kind of amazed that I knocked this out in only four days. Of course there's still drying, firing, surface glazing--mostly oxides and stains, like I used on Baba Yaga. There's a part of me that wants to see if the little bottle of gold luster I bought years ago for a church project is useable for the text on the spine, but on the other hand, that might be too fancy for a late sixties kid's book.

It occurs to me that I've documented this entire process without once mentioning the title, which inspired the whole thing.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Clever Girl.