Here we go again
Aug. 20th, 2017 06:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrA woman comes into my booth, announces I've got a great idea for you.
Okay, here we go again.
Twenty years ago, somewhere on the east coast, she bought a mug. On the rim of the mug was a small blue pig. In the bottom of the mug was another blue pig, looking up at the first.
You see? You give it to your friend, and when they get to the bottom of their coffee, there's a pig looking up at them!
I patiently explain that it's not a new idea; it's been done before. Heck, I've done it before. Back when I started making cat-handled mugs, the original commission had a small mouse in the bottom of the mug, that the cat was reaching for. Positioning the mouse down in the closed space, in such a way that the glaze didn't totally obscure it, was a pain in the butt. I finally decided to place the bisqued mouse on top of the glaze and trust it to stick down as it melted in the kiln, and even so, at least one fell over and stuck on its side.
Finally gave up on the mice, kept the cats. The cat's paw dipping into the top of the coffee was much funnier, anyway.
Okay, here we go again.
Twenty years ago, somewhere on the east coast, she bought a mug. On the rim of the mug was a small blue pig. In the bottom of the mug was another blue pig, looking up at the first.
You see? You give it to your friend, and when they get to the bottom of their coffee, there's a pig looking up at them!
I patiently explain that it's not a new idea; it's been done before. Heck, I've done it before. Back when I started making cat-handled mugs, the original commission had a small mouse in the bottom of the mug, that the cat was reaching for. Positioning the mouse down in the closed space, in such a way that the glaze didn't totally obscure it, was a pain in the butt. I finally decided to place the bisqued mouse on top of the glaze and trust it to stick down as it melted in the kiln, and even so, at least one fell over and stuck on its side.
Finally gave up on the mice, kept the cats. The cat's paw dipping into the top of the coffee was much funnier, anyway.