Callie Beller Diesel

Thanks everybody! It'll be coming out for National Clay Week in October, I'm told. Not too many details yet, but I'll keep everyone posted.

:) :) *victory dance* Congratulations, Callie!

I like the list too. I now just have to break it into manageable tasks and time blocks. Then it becomes less daunting.

I was doing OK until someone mentioned there are only 18 more Fridays until Christmas. Yikes!

I've just put in my application for my first ever exhibition - this Christmas (starting Nov 12th) - scary or what? This thread has reminded me that I should definitely make a list, otherwise the coming weeks will just fly by and I'll have v little to show!

Congratulations Diesel!!

Time to make a whole lotta pots!

Great! Callie! Happy potting!

Well Callie: sometimes when I wake up: it takes my brain hours to realize I have.

Can we write caffeine off as a necessary business expense?

I have a "Pottery Slam" in the back loading dock dumpster outside my school building a couple times a year... All the projects that stay unwanted or unclaimed.

congrats

Plays theme music from "Jaws"...

gas fired??

Enjoy- fire up the wheel to fill er up!

You lucky dog.

Thanks guys!

Good luck!

Yes, I did yesterday, Subconsciously all week,then consciously yesterday. I didn't even finish setting up before I started selling stuff, For a 5 hour show I killed it! I'm sure you will also.!!!

Kick Butt!

Excellent! Easy to navigate, very clear writing, and the pots look marvelous too.

Looks really good to me. Nice, clean, content focused.

Awesome! Thanks guys!

Seen the gallery upload. Looks like you had one of those "few times" in life experiences. Glad for you and Terri.

Marcia, Terri and I are just here for the weekend. If you can prove a certain amount of technical knowledge, you can rent the soda or the salt kiln and fire it yourself for the weekend. We're here until about lunchtime tomorrow. You're about 5 hours away. Wanna come for lunch? We found a place with amazing carrot cake!

Roberta and Tom, it's so amazing here. I haven't talked this much pottery in a long time! I have to do this more!

This may lead to a negative artist outcome!!

Throw you bowls whilst honing your statement, only do this if the throwing is coming easy today!

I have never thrown a yarn bowl but have written and told a few yarns

Probably three times as many pie plates as I can make to avoid folding laundry.

Only one way to find out what happens. Do it!

Thanks guys! Application is in. I did the spring show that the same organizer runs, and I was pleased with the results. The Christmas version has twice the attendance though...hence the nerves.

Fingers crossed you get in, their loss if you don't!

Who is demoing what???   This sounds fun!

so you have learned a lot and are going to share it all with us, right?

Oldlady, I'll try! Roberta, we had demos from Carole Epp from the Musing About Mud Blog, Jeni Hansen-Gard talked about her socially engaged clay practice, and Peter Barbour demoed his fibre clay sculpting process. Ciro DiRucoco came to town and stayed with me, and he's the guy who's been curating the Plainsman Clay Instagram feed for the last while. We had a cup auction for a fellowship fund they're starting for ACAD students to attend the Medalta residency program and clay olympics on the last day. And I can finally say this somewhere: Ciro and I put the finishing touches on our picks for a show that we have helped curate that will be part of the official NCECA events in Minneapolis next March! I'm going to my first NCECA!!!

Noooooo!!! That happened to me last year. Sold NADDA. I was slightly peeved. A lot.

Good job they were "whole" pots, not broken ones. hee hee

:-)

This is one thing, yes . All my friends and neighbours are wanting to see the new stuff, so I may just have an impromptu open house, and post a few items on etsy. I have a bigger sale Dec 12-14, and I have better hopes for that one.

Have one for me!

For à thriller you'd like Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock). And Dial M for Murder. For comedy, The Lady Killers w/Peter Sellers.

Yay! Take it easy!!

Does underglazing count?

I will start tomorrow. yep.

yes, a lot to glaze this week.. 3 20# flower pots for customers and the usual mugs,tea pots, etc.

As we chatted about, I don't need a roomie, but I am very excited to meet you in person!  

Enjoy it Callie, lots to see. I will not be there, but Ron Roy will be. I hope you two get a chance to meet. 

Nice clean site with lovely images. I would move the Gallery link forward and the contact to the end, but that is personal choice.

Good input, all.

My boyfriend and I had this game we started playing when we got together--we'd go to thrift stores and walk to the section with dishes. He'd point to something and say, "What's that?!" And without skipping a beat, I'd be all like, "Reduction-fired buff stoneware," or "Slip-cast porcelain." He'd laugh so hard and wonder how the heck I could just spit the answers out like that.

One of these? http://community.ceramicartsdaily.org/topic/7201-tinkering-with-commercial-glazes/

or

http://community.ceramicartsdaily.org/topic/5584-brushing-on-glaze/

or

http://community.ceramicartsdaily.org/topic/6815-thickening-iron-oxide/?hl=acrylic#entry65454

It was the first, with links to another article. Thank you Tyler.

summer I think.

IDK

Thanks--I'm sure that will be quite helpful to more than a few of us!! 

found a place with the best carrot cake ever!

Link?

Thanks for sharing!!