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Sharon’s pottery progress
Abbotsford, British Columbia - Thursday, February 16, 2012
By: Mario deSantis
VA 180-UFV, Instructor Sarah Ciurysek

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My wife Sharon has been taking pottery classes taught by Herman Venema of Venema Pottery since 2009 after we moved to Abbotsford from PrinceAlbert, Saskatchewan. Sharon has improved her pottery skills and she has been producing so many pottery pieces that we decided it was time to change the landscaping of our condo’s layout so that we would show her pieces.

We placed some shelves filled with Sharon’s pottery pieces by our staircase; other pieces are found around the house, either in other shelves or in the kitchen cupboards.

 I decided to tell the story of Sharon’s progression in becoming a better potter by targeting a set of beginning rough mugs, a tea pot and a shelf with her pottery pieces. The pictures of the mugs and of the tea pot were taken out in the balcony in a cloudy day. In order to identify Sharon’s pottery works, I decided to show her pottery signature (a stylized “SD”) only in the first picture.

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