JohnnyK

All went well with the surgery now that all my fingers have gotten normal sensation. Up until about 10PM last night I was concerned because the ring finger was still numb and I thought there might have been some nerve damage, but sensation started to return before I went to bed. This morning, everything is about as normal as can be expected after a surgery. It will be about a month before I can resume normal everyday activities.

That's great news!  

Usual after surgery, good to hear things are going well,

BEST,

Pres

Your colors are bright and cheerful yet tie in nicely with the surrounding bricks.  Great job.     Denice

are you going to ask for a cat drawing to use as a logo?    that might be fun, even if the suggestions are ridiculous and you never use one of them.   i can see an oblivious cat slinking along with paw prints behind her in freshly made plates.

Interesting thought, but I do have a happy cat with a smiley face on the first rendering of the business card...

My booth number is N7 on the north side of UC  Davis quad.Show is this Friday-Saturdaty and Sunday-Sunday am is the sleepiest  time. Booth is Liscom Hill Pottery_I'm doing the show solo.

The show starts at noon Friday and runs until 4 pm on Sunday -closes at 6 pm Friday and Saturday .

You will need to walk in to campus. 

Been doing this show since the middle 90s

Only have a few left in me. Looks like this will be warm weekend.

Mark

If you just look for the long line of people queuing up to pay you'll find Mark.

I went with the clever moniker of "Photo tutorial for the forum."

Always nice when things go well.

that's true! glad your firing went well. 

POTS SHOULD BE DRYING WELL

Great for some, not for others. I have to keep the mugs under cover...otherwise they dry too fast for the handle installation.

I was taking a summer throwing class,   the classroom was under old cement stadium seating.   Our professor had us throwing bowls and setting them on the steps,  they would be dry enough to trim before class was over.   Denice

YAY!

wonderful!   (do you know that this forum says you do not accept personal messages?  if that is your choice, i respect that but i wonder if you know about it)

I did not know that...how do I change that? Thanks !

Congratulations,  upwards and on-wards.   Denice

Go Ahead On JohnnyK

Waste not...

Have been enjoying your most recent works. Visually appealing.

I also use my reclaim clay for extrusions and hand building,  my throwing clay is also good for hand building.   One of my college professors showed us how he threw with very little water.   Everyone in the class loved throwing that way,  you and the wheel were easy to clean up.   The pot on the wheel was tighter  and easier to move than a sloppy wet pot.  Denice

good for you!!   isn't it satisfying to have someone REALLY like your work?

What's really nice is when I get commissions as a result of these displays...

they are gorgeous!   love the feathers.

When my work is good enough, I hope to contribute it to auctions, not at the level of a PBS station but more of a local non-profit.  I am so glad when I hear that people whose work can really make a difference choose to donate it in this way.

Wait, if it's made out of horse hair, wouldn't that be considered weaving?!...  I kid.

Great work, for a great cause.

Citrus Heights is one of my old home towns, nice to see a CAD person doing the neighborhood some good. I lived in one of the apt blocks on the east side of sunrise mall when Alexander Calder stabiles and sunlight sculptures were still part of the mall's architecture, before it's makeover anyway, many hours spent at the movies and hanging out.  

I like having light, when I wake up in the morning, and get ready for work.  But I DO NOT like it, when the sun, seemingly, goes down at 4 in the afternoon!...

It ends my drying time outside as the sun has lost its power to dry my pots outside . That means I have the heater going in studio and its hot in there and you learn to work in the heat.T -shirt weather always until x-mas production is done.Shop was over 80 yesterday to dry pots before todays bisque load.

Mark, how long does it, to dry pots, this time of year, in your toasty studio?

Thanks for reminding me I just got home from vacations and need to check my tomatoes.   Denice

good news!  

just do not overdo it.

Very Good JohnnyK.

Excellent!

Gave on to a potter friend and she thinks I ought to sell them...Hmmm...

Should rename it to third time's the charm 

Good news Johnny, Congrats!

Wished I lived close by so I could shop at your stand.  I swear a lot of the stands around here buy their tomatoes from the grocery store and doubles the price.  They don't look like homegrown tomatoes or taste like home grown ones.   Potter. 

I used to live in Citrus Heights, in the second apartment complex behind Sunrise Mall! I miss central valley produce but not the summer temps. 

I had my middle  trigger finger on my right hand and carpal tunnel release 4 weeks ago.  Both incisions are still healing,  my trigger finger is still very painful and hasn't straightened yet.  The therapist said it was too early for that,  I go back in two weeks to check it.  I do my therapy exercises three times a day, yesterday was the first day I didn't have to ice it for swelling.  I am still on lifting restrictions my hand doctor says I should be able to do anything I want by the middle of January.  I was suppose to have it done last spring but I had to many other sick relatives to help.  It will be nice to be able to open a jar,  cut my own steak and not drop half of the things I pick up.    I hope your doctor is as good as my doctor thinks he is.    Denice

Actually, my surgeon has repaired both my thumbs which had bone to bone contact at the base of each thumb due to arthritis. Those repairs totally recovered in about 6 months each, and he took care of my trigger ring finger last year with total recovery in less than a month, so I'm not anticipating any problems with the upcoming surgery and should be back at the wheel by mid-February. It could be sooner, but I've tried the latex glove route before and it didn't work for me. There's just something about the wet clay on bare skin...

hope all will be well again this time.  do not forget to get to the public library to stock up on thrillers before the big slow down.

potato chip bag clips hold open the pages so your hand can rest.

Apparently word of your "Glaze Magic" has spread far and wide...

Congrats on the order, and the magic!

That must be very satisfying. Good on you donating too!

Nice!

Well, the entire crop is in and now comes the hardest part...waiting for it all to grow and start to produce. Harvested the first of what, I'm sure, will be hundreds of squash