I'm A Little Teapot, Short & Stout...

This week's theme for APR is "In Series". What I'm referring to are things that are grouped or come in many different kinds but are the same or similar objects. Like, for instance cocktail glasses or, well, teapots. Yes, I'm doing a series of teapots for this challenge. I looked them up several weeks ago for a challenge over at Inspiration Avenue but I ended up running out of time to actually do the challenge. I still had half a dozen culled photographs of some amazing looking teapots though so when this theme came to m,e I realized I could do teapots!!

I know I go on and on about my addiction to hazelnut coffee but I do love the ceremony of making tea. When I need comforting I make tea. Coffee is for chatting with friends, tea is for deep conversations and cozying into your favorite chair with a good book on a rain day.

By David & Goliath

Oh, what's a rain day, you say?? Well, a rain day is a cool idea. Let me tell you a true little story. My dad was a civil engineer, he built houses. When I was a baby we all moved to British Columbia from Ontario and my dad started a new job as the engineer on site of a large townhouse complex that was being built. His first day on the job started on a clear sunny, warm summer morning. He got to the job site only to find that he was the only one there. He finally located the site manager who was just finishing something up before he went home. Dad asked where the heck was everyone?? I mean, there should have been dozens of construction workers building walls and up on half finished roofs!

The site manager looked at Cliff and said, "Oh, didn't you get the memo, today's a rain day."
"What?!!?" my dad yelled. "It's perfectly sunny without a cloud in the sky!!"
The guy looked at Cliff (dad) with a grin on his face. "I guess you're not from around here. Eight out of ten of the workers voted that it was raining too much to safely work so it's a rain day. Go home and enjoy your day off man!"

My dad blinked, flabbergasted. He got a more complete explanation before going home. It seems that to ensure safety (in a Province that gets a lot of rain) there is a rule that says that if 80% of the workers agree that there is too much rain to make it safe to be working on slippery roofs etc. then they go home to work another day when it's not raining. It's true that the workers don't get paid for these rain days so voting to go home when it's actually safe to work is really rare but sometimes on truly beautiful days when everyone agrees, ahh, let's just go home, they do. It just happened that my dad hit upon one of those very rare non-rain rain days, lol. The next day all was well and the construction workers were steadily back at work diligently doing their jobs by 7 AM.

Anyway, onto my teapot series... I don't think I've ever done anything this colorful and I LOVE it. It's funny, I am so drawn to colorful, interesting and dimensional work, you'd think I'd do more. Hopefully now that I see I can, I will. :o)

Title: "I'm A Little Teapot!"

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