Paint your own pottery!

There are quite a few places near us here in Ohio where you can paint your own pottery:
You're Fired
Funke Fired Arts
Mad Potter (there are 2 of them that we've been to near us, here and here)
My sister gave us a gift tile (just like a gift card) to use a couple years ago.  It's a great gift, because YOU can create something unique.  These kind of open studios are all over the place...

 Olivia using the big mug she made...inside it's so pretty!

Breakfast this morning (cornflakes with almond milk and sliced banana on top) in Hannah's new bowl!

We took Hannah and Olivia to Starlight Pottery in Savannah, Georgia, when they were 2 and 4 years old and they painted these little mugs (which they use often):

And it's almost Christmas for us Russian Orthodox Christians who follow the old calendar!
We have church services this weekend and then...

THE NATIVITY OF CHRIST – РОЖДЕСТВО ХРИСТОВО
Mon. Jan. 6 Vigil-Всенощная, 6:30 p.m.
Tue. Jan. 7 Divine Liturgy-Божественная Литургия, 10 a.m.
(that beautiful picture of our NEW church with snow on trees was taken by a friend, Svetlana Pinkerton)