The Empty Bowl

Well my absence from the blogging world can only mean one thing-I've been busy. Everyone knows that feeling right?

Spring has finally sprung here in the Northwoods so I've been trying to enjoy the outdoors as much as possible. Also the dreaded cleaning and de-cluttering has been an ongoing battle.

However last weekend we were able to make it to our local Empty Bowl event. For those who have never heard of or participated in an empty bowl event, I strongly recommend seeking them out-or better yet try to organise one yourself if you are the motivated type. In a nutshell, they are a fundraising event usually for food shelves or soup kitchens. Local artists, students from schools and colleges make and donate handmade pottery bowls for the event. Then the public that attend get to pick out a bowl, load up with some hot soup, and enjoy socializing and listening to some live music. The one here in Ashland cost $10 a bowl-and there were some beauties. We accidentally arrived 45 minutes early because we had the starting time wrong. The nice college kids in charge of the event didn't even tell us to comeback later or inform us that we were too early. We thought people were just late arriving. A little embarrassing looking back, but hey, we got first pick at the bowls.

Here are the two bowls we chose

Also, I'd like to give the Northland students and artists that made this year's Empty Bowl a success a big thumbs up. You guys really are an asset to the community.