Day 2: Painting pottery in Porter

I'm Adam Sell and I have two months left before I leave Boston. My challenge? Do something in the city every day. Have ideas for my adventure? Send me an email.

Yes, I know, every English teacher I ever had said "always avoid alliteration," but I couldn't help it. This blog title just presented itself like a hanging curveball.

Sixty days is a long time, and I'm gonna need some coffee to get me through it. (O.K., I apologize, that's a terrible segue, but I'm rolling with it.) So today saw me in Porter Square on the other side of the river, painting my own new coffee mug at Made by Me.

My friend Natalie clued me into the little paint-your-own place, and after we shook off the rain, we settled in to paint ourselves some new liquid energy containers.

I was reminded very quickly that I can't paint to save my life. So I chose to simply paint stripes on my mug. Maybe keeping it simple would make it look better. (Wishful thinking, that.) I'll be able to pick up my fired mug next week.

Both Natalie and I chose little "coffee guardians" that sit on the handle and look into the mug. She painted a rabbit that resembles her own pet Leland at home, while I...I chose a duck.

Rubber ducky, you're the one indeed.