Babs

Was doing a forum search on rare eath oxides such as Yttrium, Holium, and Samarium: wonder why these never came up in topics before?

Forums was offline for a day or two-now its back?any ideas on what happened

Score!! A potter in NH is selling off most of her studio, so I got myself over a $100 (retail) worth of tools for $15. Yee haw!

So I was looking to make some "Score No More", and it call for dry gum powder. Will CMC Gum, or Veegum work?

So I was looking to make some "Score No More", and it call for dry gum powder. Will CMC Gum, or Veegum work?

Nothing better than getting up, drinking some tea, then pulling some handles for some mugs. What a day what a day!

packing for colder weather in Scotland and my Alternative firing workshop May 20-22. Sounds like we're taking the high road over the mountains and around the river Clyde. The scenery looks amazing.They have 5 raku kilns ready to go. Will post lots of photos or maybe just la link to them.

So, my fella is awesome. He found a grippy turnstyle thingy at a thrift store and got it for me. It has little padded prongs to grip cup-like objects for decorating, so I don't have to hold it while I underglaze!

back for 4 days from Hawaii-loaded and fired bisque and two glazes fires.unload wens afternoon and drive Thursday to a show at UC Davis.Whole Earth Festival

My first ever single firing is in the kiln. Hunting round the house for displacement activities to keep me from wondering just exactly what is going to happen.

My wedding ring survived a batch of stoneware in the Peter Pugger...I always knew of my attraction to clay, but this takes it too far, methinks

ready to go home.

You know its all about that glaze, 'bout that glaze...no bubbles (earwig for today, with apologies to Meghan Trainor)

So, guess who literally found almost $100.00 worth of underglaze at a thrift store in a bag marked $5.00? And then won a $1.00 discount off of it? YEP; THIS guinea pig!!

Sold my "Throwdown" style Pierced vase to "painter" at the pottery class. Picture in gallery.

Leaving for KC in about 2 hours to meet up with Ron Roy tomorrow. I will back in KC on Thursday or Friday. See you there!

Currently contemplating how many yarn jars I can throw to avoid writing an artist's statement.

Closing on my office/warehouse in a couple of more days. The question now becomes: what studio toy should I buy?

Thinking about starting private lessons from inside my home. My health is crashing fast, and pottery is getting harder every day, but I have a lot of knowledge to share. I think I could take a couple students under my wing.

Working on a design for an "Anti-Gravity" workspace mat. That way any dropped tools could be retrieved without bending over. Alternately, I could just use those things kids have to attach their gloves to their coats...

I've been sick for a week and I'm missing clay.

That moment when the cone 10 glaze firing is well underway, you are cleaning up the glazing table, and suddenly there is an out-of-place container of low-fire glaze sitting in front of you...

Haven't been here in awhile. Seeing what everyone's been up to.

Tomorrow is glaze day. Prepped all my bottoms and lined all my insides! Looking forward to the weather 65F tomorrow! Beautiful day to start February.

finished two raku kilns yesterday but not the flashing idea. These are oil drum kilns with 1/3 cut off. Also added a burner holder. One is a replacement for my smaller raku kiln and the other is for a friend. the flashing ended up around the grapefruit trees for protection against rates. It seems to be working.