Pottery Class Part Deux

Made an oval shaped dish thingey. I'm going to paint it some kind of brownish colour. It'll make a nice serving dish.
The hippie chick who made the fancy-ass artsy-poo thing last week was absent, but a real hippie-looking chick was there, with her hippie boyfriend who dropped her off. It was her first time, and she also made a pretty nice looking bowl. Why are hippies are so good at pottery?