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.

Inspired by Lopez

I never thought about making jewelry until my friend Sara Lopez suggested making pendants.

"Dude, you could make that."

Huh. Ok, I'll try.

This first one is a tile hung from brown leather cording:

A variation. Long skinny tile hung from a silver collar:

Blue-green loop pendant hung from a silver collar:

Close up so you can see the glaze a little better:

Blue-green square (cube) bead drops:

I have more colors, this is just what I quickly assembled this morning.

WIPs

Finished up a few things today... trimmed a large bowl (it's 16'' in diameter at the moment) and then trimmed and finished the hand work on 2 more piggy banks.

Of course the pigs have crazy tails and butt cracks. Heh.

Huh. The bowl isn't nearly as impressive in that pic as it is in person. Partly it's the perspective - the pigs are slightly in front, and partly it's because the pigs are just large.

This Little Piggie...

Started working on stuff for the Swan Creek Potters Spring Sale today....

Still have some finishing work to do, and they still have to survive bisq & glaze fire, but I'm pleased with them so far.

And one more thing

The annual Swan Creek Potters Spring Sale is the first Saturday in May. May 1st, I believe. Same place as usual, in Whitehouse, OH. Hope to see you there!

Is it Spring yet?

I'm ready. And waiting.

Been a quiet couple months here. After the mass production before Christmas, I took a few weeks off. And then because those 2 gift pots were screwed up (see previous post), I had to re-make those and enough other stuff (mostly yarn bowls) to fill the kiln so I could get the gifts to people. That's finally done.

Anyway, one thing that I learned (well, re-learned) is that I am not a production potter. That just takes the fun out of it for me. So I'm just going to make what I want when I want to make it. :o) If that means a ton of stuff at once because I'm in a groove, great. I just don't want to HAVE do to that.

That said, I just realized I have 2 months to get ready for a sale. Good thing I'm not working now. ;oP

Today I started some new piggy banks, to replace the ones from last week that fell victim to my distractedness. Tomorrow I'll probably throw more yarn bowls. Oh, and I have some ideas for some Springie thingies. But I'm not telling what that is yet.

Stay tuned.