Color theory
Jan. 7th, 2022 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrRemember the guy who bought six dinner plates and six soup bowls? He also came back Christmas Eve to pick out six dessert plates.
Two days after Christmas, I got an email from his wife, asking if she can return them.
*sigh*
Don't get her wrong, she says, she likes the shapes, she likes the drawing. But she's got a specific color scheme in mind for her kitchen, and the "yellowish" color just doesn't match. Can I do them in a white background instead?
Cue hysterical weeping.
Those of you who've been reading this journal for a while have learned that I do sometimes get white pots. By accident, from oxidizing spots in the kiln. Which move around from firing to firing, so I can't really predict which pots will be affected, so I can't take orders for that color scheme.
Some years ago, when I was on Productivity Alchemy, Kevin asked how I dealt with failure. "Cry. Swear. Stomp around... for about a day." And that's what happened here, after which I went out into the shed to inventory pots and separate and count the oxidized dinner plates, desserts, and soup bowls. Turned out I had enough of them to do the full eighteen-piece set with no repeat patterns. I emailed, offering to swap out her gift for colors more to her liking, and she said yes.
They're due her in five minutes. Fingers crossed.
Two days after Christmas, I got an email from his wife, asking if she can return them.
*sigh*
Don't get her wrong, she says, she likes the shapes, she likes the drawing. But she's got a specific color scheme in mind for her kitchen, and the "yellowish" color just doesn't match. Can I do them in a white background instead?
Cue hysterical weeping.
Those of you who've been reading this journal for a while have learned that I do sometimes get white pots. By accident, from oxidizing spots in the kiln. Which move around from firing to firing, so I can't really predict which pots will be affected, so I can't take orders for that color scheme.
Some years ago, when I was on Productivity Alchemy, Kevin asked how I dealt with failure. "Cry. Swear. Stomp around... for about a day." And that's what happened here, after which I went out into the shed to inventory pots and separate and count the oxidized dinner plates, desserts, and soup bowls. Turned out I had enough of them to do the full eighteen-piece set with no repeat patterns. I emailed, offering to swap out her gift for colors more to her liking, and she said yes.
They're due her in five minutes. Fingers crossed.