Lessons in teaching

Teaching has a new meaning when you find out in the middle of class that half of the students in the class room don’t speak English…now that puts a new little twist on teaching art to 4 year olds – oh wait that was not in the plan either – I was told K-2 but I made it happen and the joy of art is that it is not science and you can be flexible and you let things flow the best that they can. Oh there are going to be some challenges but this is also something that I want to try and see where it will take me. Plus it looks good on the resume that I can say I have had ESL experience and teaching too- in the public schools. We made a little mess with the cooking oil that made the pictures ‘shiny’ – so that they made their own stainglass window. Next week I will have the older kids and we will be making stainglass windows with tissue paper.

I was supposed to have another interview today but it was canceled, or at least moved to another day and time. I am running the studio tonight since Madeline is in NY playing with glass all week and I am teaching the stained glass class on Thursday night alone. And then next Saturday I am teaching the fused glass class – the one that enjoy the most. But I do have to say that I really enjoyed the PMC class, a few of the regulars from Tuesday nights attended Madeline’s pilot class. I could really get into that – however I am not so sure my wallet can. Why is it that I have to find the fun and $$$ classes and habits to love. The studio has been quite for the most part since the holidays, I think it is hard getting out of the house when it is cold outside. But I will take the quite and the space. The church is saying that there is a big chance that they could be closing down for the summer to start the construction and the big move for the studio to the basement to a room with a sink. The sad thing is, we will be without a formal studio for a few months but we will be returning to a better room- yeah a sink just makes an art room that much better.

I am still working on the dancing women candle sticks and I have found these great star bases, however I am having issues with getting them from gold to silver and locating more of them. I need to send a few to the GPS alum art show and some over to Hoopla too. I have the cutting down it is the wrapping that I am having issue with when they get to hot and I drop them…got to remember that metal conducts some good heat.

In other news…the roommate who started the flood is moving out on the 15 th- that is 2 more weeks from tomorrow (happy happy) we still have not locked in a new roommate but I know we will find one. I had one girl come and look at the house and after talking to her she asked “does your den always look like this?”…my comment was no most of the time the art is on the walls…she then told me that she would want to departmentalize the den and put my cocktail napkins which are in some martini glasses into the drawer… I don’t think we would mix well – and who puts there monogrammed cocktail napkins in a drawer for no one to see? (yes I am from the south and my little sister works in a store where almost everything is monogrammed)… There are still some who are calling and say they want to come and see the house but you never know if they will show up or not. I would love to wrap that up but for once I am not worried about it. Really I just want new carpet in my room -