Spring Lawn Sale

(I know it isn't Saturday quite yet, but by the time anyone reads this it probably will be.)

Come out and see me! I have yarn bowls and pie dishes (full and individual size) and trays and earrings and Pigs and other stuff. Check the Swan Creek Potters' web site for location details.

5 down, 9 to go

Got the first 5 pigs glazed tonight with a pretty matt pale pink glaze, and black features. I know the colors look rather dull in the photo, but once fired the colors will be a lot richer. I'm hoping to get the other 9 glazed tomorrow so I can fire them Wednesday.

ps. the weird shadows inside the pigs are because there are 5 lights over head shining through the money slots.

Now available in the Sauder Village Gift Shop

I dropped off a dozen pairs of earrings to the Gift Shop this morning. Some ceramic bead ones (sorry, these are in packaging)

And some knit silver wire with glass beads

Tweaky tweaky tweaky

YAY!!! So it seems the tweaks to the glaze worked, although I still have issues with glaze being too thick on big stuff. Everything made it through this kiln except 1 large bowl. The glaze ran on the foot. I can probably grind it off, but a chunk of the foot is stuck to my kiln shelf. Grrr. Need to figure out a better process for that.

Anyway.

Long skinny footed tray:

Full and individual size pie dishes.

Also did some in the blue/oatmeal combo.

Tray

Earrings

The bowl that ran. The glaze is GORGEOUS. So much that I'd like to rub my face on it. And then chew off the puddle stuck to the foot. Grrrrr.

OH!!! And one more thing. I'm taking some earrings in to the gift shop at Sauder Village in Archbold, Ohio to see if they'll sell them. It's pretty much a yes, but I need to go meet with them.

And I'm working on setting up an Etsy page. But I need to get through the sale with the Swan Creek Potters first.

I have some glazing to do

Unloaded a bisq kiln this afternoon. The pile of small bits on the lower middle left are beads. The flat square things above the beads will be magnets. Both those will take a while to glaze since I have to brush each one (instead of dipping them). I was hoping to get everything glazed so I can fire a glaze kiln tomorrow, but I probably won't get around to glazing until tomorrow.

Pie, anyone?

Individual pie dishes.... for singles and couples who want some pie, but don't want the temptation of scarfing down an entire full size pie by themselves.

After shrinkage they should be @5.5'' in diameter, and use 1, 8-9'' crust recipe.

Today's project

I didn't expect finishing these to take all day, but it did take the entire day. Only 4 more to make, and then I'll have a kiln full of pigs. And I'll be pigged out for a while.