Make Meaning Pottery Painting Date
Before we headed that direction we hit up one of our favorite places- Sauce, for their awesome summer special where $20 gets you a pizza, salad, and wine (or two soft drinks if you aren’t drinkers). It really is a great deal with some great food.
Just for the record, Jacob would fit in fine in New York since he’s a natural pizza folder.
We then headed over to Scottsdale Quarter to find Make Meaning. They are one of the brightest, happiest places to visit- even their bathroom has neon striped walls to get your creative juices going! Wait, maybe juices and bathroom in the same sentence…never mind…let’s just move onto the date!
Our Groupon was for ceramic painting, but we discovered pretty quickly we could take cake decorating classes, make candles, soap, or glass projects too. I see another date in our future with one of these other activities involved.
We only had a handful of things to choose from, but decided the serving bowl would be great for parties, and I had a certain Anthropologie knock-off in mind and grabbed the measuring cups.
The paint names did me in, I have a weakness for cleverness.
Had we not been on Groupon restrictions, we realized there were tons of options, so maybe next time we’ll branch our into other cool items!
Jacob fell in love with the idea of ombre for a bowl pretty early, and went to town trying to shade different shades of red.
I decided that I really wanted to copy Anthropologie’s Garden Sketch Measuring Cups, and knew the skills acquired during my endless hours doodling flowers all over my notebooks in junior high was ready to finally pay off in life.
I’m no artist, but I tried to best to make each a little different and give some character. It’s been a while since junior high too, so I was a little rusty, but managed to finish with things that looked somewhat like flowers.
We realized pretty quickly one of us likes to make things complicated and one likes to keep things simple, but we won’t name any names. Just know the simplistic one offered to help knowing he, err, they would be done sooner than the other.
We kind of love pulling faces at each other during our date night photos, for the record.
Carefully hand-painting each piece was both stressful and relaxing, kind of a great sensation.
And as promised, he helped with the outlines and areas I didn’t have time to finish.
And these guys helped out too.
Every time I got up to rinse a brush I had a great view.
And by the end of the night we were feeling accomplished and ready to see our pieces fired.
When we picked them up a few days later, we were pretty happy with the results!
Maybe I should let Jacob finish off more of my art projects…
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That looks awesome. I like that place a lot. I have never painted pottery but that would be fun! The food looks delicious too!
Becca
Bathroom juices. Also, #nailedit with the measuring cups. I must do this.
This looks like SO MUCH FUN!!!
They look awesome!!! 🙂 Both of your projects do and this is such a fun, unique date! But now I want that pizza…
I seriously have a meausuring spoon sickness! These are amazing!!!!! 🙂 This looks like lots of fun maybe I will try to convince B to go out to paining night.
Those measuring cups are DARLING. I took my boyfriend pottery painting a few months ago and was pleasantly surprised that he loved it! Of course, he painted a tiny football helmet, so really there was no way he would dislike it.