Chilly
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Today's Thursday. Must be pottery class. Yippee. Too cold (and damp) to pot in my greenhouse now.
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Kiln opening tomorrow. Will my thick sculptures be OK. Will the underglazes (first-timer) have worked out OK. Will I sleep tonight?
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Cold and damp. Glaze taking ages to dry. Bye bye summer :-(
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Must have had your head buried in your kiln for that moment in June.
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Blech, good riddance! My kiln is in my living room and we had a hellfire summer this year. Winter is my happy place.
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Funnily enough, HB, some of the best weather I encountered this summer was in July, while visiting Gateshead. Perhaps you were sleeping, on nights?
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Spent all morning breaking up pallets and feeding the fire. We put last week's pots into altar fires, put the altar fires onto the embers of a big fire and piled wood on top, and kept on piling it on. Left it to die down and cool and wow, we had pots. Mine (the thinnest) broke but the thicker ones were fine. Everyone was delighted, now they want o play with real clay
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slip now evaporated nicely. Lid on, needs re-mixing tomorrow, then I can add the sodium dispex and start pouring. Hooray, thank you sunshine.
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Waiting for the over-watered home-made slip to evaporate........
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Trouble is, it's not settling out. Still looks as it was when I finished mixing it. Now decanted into four buckets not two. Come on sunshine, do your stuff.
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Add some dry clay trimmings, let slake and sieve again, aztest way to go. Add Flocculant?? Try somee epsom salts.
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I'm clean out of any more clay of that type at the mo. Patience is getting there. Daytime highs of 40C in a closed glasshouse......
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Hummph. Wasn't piriformis in spasm. It was all of lower back, particulary right-hand-side. Banned from kick-wheel. Banned from sitting still for longer than 20 minutes. Good job I can hand-build standing up.
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My! Have you seen Big Lou's response to how do you sit at the wheel.
Just spent most ofthe day throwing, took Neil's advice and thre for a shorter time broken by periods of other work.
BAck ok tonight, but I also have a daily yoga practice which saves me from myself.
Good luck with your recovery.. does biking count as sitting?
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Woo, woo. I now own, flint, whiting, sodium dispex in addition to the other stuff I inherited. Gonna be a fun few days, Yes, I do also have a mask!
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any pics ofhte mugs for the agricultural world?
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Not yet. The centre's kiln failed to reach temperature. Again. Now the kiln techs have agreed with the experts here - new elements needed. So once again, my little kiln will get fired - manana :-)
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I like using dead sea creatures in my glazes too
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The rain is back, no surprise there. Now "stuff" is not going to dry, it's going to have to come indoors. Going to get nagged. Again.
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Chilly, what about making a "Drying Cabinet"? I've seen people discuss the use of them.
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Benzine - I have half of an 8 x 10 greenhouse for a studio. There's barely enough room for me and all the stuff I've accumulated. I do have a shelf over the bath in the second bath-room, where stuff dries quite nicely, but I still put it in the kitchen too.
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Chilly, that would make sense.
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The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hooray, I'm going out to play.
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was your clay clay or glaze?
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It was clay. I couldn't tell the difference between the "unkown" stuff and some from a new bag :-)
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It was clay. I couldn't tell the difference between the "unkown" stuff and some from a new bag :-)
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In the morning I find out if my "gifted" terracotta clay is clay or not
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'Hoping for the best!
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what was the result?
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Couldn't tell the difference between the "known" and the "gifted unknown" so will carry on using it. Just need to put up with it's stickiness.
I laughed
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