The Empty Bowls project hosts a sale in Round Rock this year. For sale are bowls made by area children; the proceeds go to the food pantry. It's held at a primary school, with pottery demonstrations, music from school groups, and general celebration.
I've been meaning to go for years, and finally made it. I bought one bowl (it came with a side of soup) that was interesting - kind of flat, metallic gray on the inside, pastel and lumpy on the outside, and with a chip in the rim. It doesn't photograph well. But it sits on my coffee table and reminds me that I have food to eat whenever I want. Food of my own choosing. Nutritious food or frivolous food.
I also bid on a little heart shaped red bowl at the silent auction. I don't know if the hole in the bottom was intentional, but the sale organizers made a silk purse out of a sow's ear by adding a begonia in just the right color and calling it a planter.
Yesterday I got the call that I had one this sweet little piece and I was very pleased I may have to transplant the begonia into something larger, but for now, it will grace my table and make me smile.
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