Blog post 12/14

For the past three days I have been attempting to correct the broken terra cotta pieces. Since they were already fired no sandpaper or anything i could find would take any material off. My teacher told me to try using the concrete flooring to flatten them out and that was the only thing that'd work. On the third day of attempting to do this I was getting very close and then a whole broke through the bottom of my cup. So three days of caveman work failed me. Time to start from scratch.

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