![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Sponge-bob
Jul. 13th, 2015 02:30 pmArtist and author Ursula Vernon has a charming habit, perhaps picked up in the south, of naming everything -bob: Thrush-bob and Turtle-bob in her garden, Drow (a sort of dark elf)-bob in her D&D gaming group. If she were still a potter (she was once), she'd probably call sponge-holders Sponge-bobs.
I got asked about sponge-bobs for years. Never saw the need, personally, since the sponge dries out just fine on the edge of the sink. Finally, after the umpteen-hundredth time, I decided to make sponge-bobs. Came up with a nifty little design, thrown, altered square, cut with slots. Gave me a nice little surface to paint, fit beautifully in the little spaces between pots in the kiln.
Nobody bought them. Nobody asked for them. I carried them around for eight months with nary a nibble, then put them all in a seconds sale, and swore off making them ever again.
I got asked about sponge-bobs for years. Never saw the need, personally, since the sponge dries out just fine on the edge of the sink. Finally, after the umpteen-hundredth time, I decided to make sponge-bobs. Came up with a nifty little design, thrown, altered square, cut with slots. Gave me a nice little surface to paint, fit beautifully in the little spaces between pots in the kiln.
Nobody bought them. Nobody asked for them. I carried them around for eight months with nary a nibble, then put them all in a seconds sale, and swore off making them ever again.