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Firing kiln with a bunch of vases with my wood ash glazes and modified slips. Excited to see them tomorrow night.

Firing kiln with a bunch of vases with my wood ash glazes and modified slips. Excited to see them tomorrow night.

Well, it is Christmas Day. Had family in Jordan and South Korea finishing their Masters. Between that and passing the flu around for months: today is Christmas.

Firing kiln with a bunch of vases with my wood ash glazes and modified slips. Excited to see them tomorrow night.

freezing in my basement studio today 

must go shovel driveway and patio. home maintenance chores.

I am missing the moderators and key resource/info people who are (recently) not here anymore---the place just ain't the same. 

I am missing the moderators and key resource/info people who are (recently) not here anymore---the place just ain't the same. 

Ack! My kiln with brand new elements just misfired. Now I have to wait until it cools down before I can start to investigate. Aggravation. 

I am missing the moderators and key resource/info people who are (recently) not here anymore---the place just ain't the same. 

In the midst of rebuilding my tower. CPU was 6yrs old, went dead. Requires a new Mobo, CPU and RAM as everything was out of date. . .no longer manufactured, and none out there. Oh well, should be up and running tomorrow.

best,

Pres

Just peeked in my kiln full of test tiles with wood ash mixtures, pastes, and soda washes. Some very very promising results. Can't wait for the next 250F to cool so I can open that beast and spend days looking at every inch of every tile! It has been way too long since I have run a kiln load full of tiles. 

Just peeked in my kiln full of test tiles with wood ash mixtures, pastes, and soda washes. Some very very promising results. Can't wait for the next 250F to cool so I can open that beast and spend days looking at every inch of every tile! It has been way too long since I have run a kiln load full of tiles. 

Just peeked in my kiln full of test tiles with wood ash mixtures, pastes, and soda washes. Some very very promising results. Can't wait for the next 250F to cool so I can open that beast and spend days looking at every inch of every tile! It has been way too long since I have run a kiln load full of tiles. 

Okay guys, I think we have had enough of a vacation, I have just posted PQothW 40. Did you think I was getting lazy?

best,

Pres

How did your further testing go?

My father passed two weeks ago, and I want to use his ashes in trinket trays for the family.  Will also use them in some fused glass work.

Home alone again. Husband returned to Va. to work. He was telecommuting for 2 of the three weeks he was here. He did manage to do some jam sessions at the Snowcreek saloon. Mother-in-law spent a week over Christmas with us. I am now back to the studio. I did some reorganizing of layout to improve heat flow. its nice in there when the temperature i up to high 30s. Around -10 the studio temperature went down to 55. I have a kerosene backup if I need it.

Happy to be in the studio again.

Will be heading home on Monday late. Having a great time. Very little pottery. Hope to be up and running by Wed. However, we are not looking forward to the frigid temps.

best,

Pres

Happy New Year! I'm thrilled to now have  someone to help with some of the non-clay tasks needed to set up an online store, which means I can focus more time/energy on making the pieces I need to make. 

Decided to make four "hidden masks" specifically for the next anagama fire (NHIA) in April.   And some stands to display them on a flat surface, in addition to being wall pieces. Psyched!  

just received a copy of a new article about my work from Revista Ceramica published in Spain. Beautiful photos. Very impressive. I am delighted to be in it. The editor remembered me from an article i wrote in the 90s on Los Hornos Arabesque, 3-story kilns in the town where I lived during my Fulbright. A similar article on those kilns was published in Ceramics Monthly in 1989.