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Status Updates posted by Chilly
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Broken collarbone :-( No Pottery, No Cycling, No Sewing, No Gardening, No Life !
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thanks all for your support. ow sums it up politely. i apologize in advance if I seem GRUMPY, but I am. it was my own fault, so rather annoyed with myself. in 6-8 weeks time i should be back to normal! happy, optimistic self :-)
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Oh, that sux. I wish you a speedy recovery.
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Awwww that doesn't sound like a holiday. Take care, go easy and get well soon. Can you draw instead of potting?
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Forum's quiet. Where have you all been?
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I couldn't get on either, I even e-mailed Joseph to see if he could get on. CMF accidently locked me out one time, so I was just checking I wasn't the only one.
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I think there was something wrong with the website.
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Yes. Jennifer got it fixed. She is the head administrator for CAD.
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Threw two whole pots today, then destroyed one.
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I destroy about 95% of what I make. I have a whole shelving unit full of stuff I am going to hammer and trash next week. Keeps me on my toes!
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Do you throw away because it isn't good or because your not satisfied with it?
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My non-art brain is being pushed to the hilt. I have to design a 60+ tile mural for Scouts and Explorer Scouts to carve at an event in July. I wish my mouth would learn to stay shut.
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Yeah, I'm thinking the mural should be like a photo montage of the weekends activities - pole-lathing, blacksmithing, baking bread, basket-making, archery, jousting. Oh yea, and pottery!
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A medieval/Camelot type weekend.
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Take pictures into Photo shop, Make them Black and white, montage together, then change bightness and contrast. Print out and trace the line patterns.
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Can't sleep. Titanium plate and screws in my collarbone ! Feeling positive tho' :-)
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Ouch, I feel your pain, Get well soon.
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When I had my 2 shoulder surgeries, I had to sleep in my recliner for a month each time. If you have one you might try it...Hang in there and recover soon, Chilly!
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Sleeping definitely the worst thing. Pile of pillows is helping. And busy during the day.
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Sold my "Throwdown" style Pierced vase to "painter" at the pottery class. Picture in gallery.
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Her secret is, she does ALL the carving and then, only then, does she pop the cutouts. That way she has the integrity of the clay and can do much more intricate work.
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I love pierced work so I thought you might like this tip. Not to take away from your vase which I think is absolutely gorgeous.
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Thanks Giselle, I like the cut it all, then remove it process. The clay has to be just the right hardness, Too soft and it doesn't cut, too hard and you end up scraping it out. Will try this technique on the next one tho'.
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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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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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Winter has returned! Farewell spring!
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Here too
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Well I was wrong, spring isn't here. Summer is here. It's pretty darn hot.
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It's official. Surgery two weeks time to fix my collarbone. Gotta get some clay finished first.
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I wish you minimal pain and fast recovery.
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I'm sure it will be a big relief to get it fixed. All the best with your recovery : )
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Good luck Chilly, hope you recover quickly.
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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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Oh dear, attended a glass fusing course and now I'm being drawn away from clay. So tempting.
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What he said!
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rabbit hole -be careful
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I have done glass fusing in the past, it was interesting and fun. Kind of like a kid with a new toy, but the thrill wore off quickly. I still needed to get my hands in clay. Denice
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First firing of porcelain is cooling down. Won't get opened until tomorrow late afternoon. Can't wait........
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Yay!!
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Yes, photos tomorrow,
All seemed OK. :-)
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Photos in gallery, and in "Can't throw, can extrude" thread.
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My poor back. Cut, slam wedged 25kg of porcelain. One bag too hard, the other too soft.
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That can be tough, but for me after the cut and slam, wedge with cone or ramshead to restretch contracted spine.
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If the hard bag is not completely dry, cut it in a few chunks and wrap each in a
very damp hand towel for a day or two.
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you sound like Goldilocks, hope your next bag is just right : )
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Four days later, three mugs are glazed. One-handed, all by myself!
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Good on you. And ditto everything bciskepottery said.
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How is the broken shoulder doing?
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It's getting better, thanks. Down fro 12 tabs a day to just 2. Hoping to drop those soon. Pain is mainly gone, just aches now. And frustrated at how bad I am at one-finreg trypong !! lol
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John Britt's new book is stopping me from doing housework :-)
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There *are* worse ways to avoid the vacuuming.
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The book is good isn't it. I just got my copy yesterday.
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yep, good book..
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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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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.
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Can't get into the studio. Fresh paving laid between house and greenhouse door. Not allowed to walk on it yet. Which book do I want to re-read?
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Forget the book. Go press your hand in the cement, write initials, dates. LOL
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Of Mice and Men- John Steinbech. back.. something like that. Not read it in 40 years, but still remember it well.
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"Thank you for arguing." That is one of my most recommended books to almost anyone who asks me about a book to read.
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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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Wondering where Evelyne Schoenmann and Guinea have gone
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Evelyne is busy with a conference coming up, and other things that are filling her time up. She does check in at times
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I also think often of guinea and wonder how she is --such a wonderful artist with such a beautiful spirit
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Hi my friends. Thanks Chilly for asking and thank you Pres for standing in for me. I am crazy busy, but I will come here more often, now that I am in Switzerland again after a long time in Asia and then Italy. Love you all!
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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.
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Lovely feedback received from a recipient of one of my snowflake mobiles. Happy potter.