Spring is coming slowly and quietly in my yard.

So happy to see these little tulip, iris and other bulbs and hollyhocks beginning to appear in my yard.  As the garden begins to show a need for me to be in it, it means a change in focus between now and the end of May.  I still need and want to make a lot of pottery, but the outdoors will be calling me out there.  It will be time to get out of the dark basement studio and into my garden.

I started making pieces for my new plan of Fairy Garden adornments.

Birds, nests, leaf stools, mushrooms, fairy houses and more on the way. I love the change in focus from the wheel.

Goat Milk Cheese Making workshop at Aurora Farms

In my never ending drive to make our life more self sufficient and less reliant on a "paycheque" I have been thinking about goat's and how to have goats for the last couple of years.  Yesterday, I took the opportunity to go to a nearby farm to learn about goat milk cheese making.  Yes, that's me at  the top milking my first goat.  It was great, I need a lot of practice, and I hope to get it.  We made chevre, mozzarella, ricotta, feta cheese and yogurt.  It was great, thanks to Louise May and the goats of course, who I find endlessly interesting.