GiselleNo5

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welcome back!

Yes, glad to see some new work: very nice.

You and I, both. Lets make some great pots. Deal?

It's a deal!! LET'S DO THIS!!

I'm combining the two shops back into one.

Oh no, Grype, I went to reply and accidentally deleted your comment! I wasn't offended by it. I was going to say, I sell them as fast as I can make them but I've only made nine in the past year. I'm not against raising the price.

Hah. No worries. I have done the same thing as well.

I've gotten pretty good about cleaning as I go but before I switch I check everything. Still sometimes I get a smear or two. Oh well. I've been practicing throwing off the hump with little shot glasses, then slip decorating them. I'm about to upload them if you want to see. They're still just green.

Looking good. I just videod myself throwing off the hump today. It's been a while since I have done it. It really helps to review. Your pots look great.

I was throwing off the hump AND throwing on my friend's raised wheel. I want to try it at home and see if it goes better.

Good to hear that you are feeling better. Not so good that your clay isn't cooperating

Haha! Thank you, I've been madly glazing and shipping tocatch up. When I carved into the huge mass, it was still leathery about 1/2" under the surface, so I have hopes that if I wrap it in soaked towels for a few days that will reconstitute the outside and I can start wedging.

You might be able to cut and slam at this point to even things out. I find the pillowcase method doesn't dry as evenly as I'd like it to, but it does have some other convenient points.

Cool. I assume we can expect pictures? I like watching your work progress.

Of course! And thank you!

Firing is elemental. Sorry, best I got on short notice.

Aaaand you lost all sympathy. That sounds so awesome. My brother-in-law does surf fishing and ever since I had his fresh perch tacos I have never felt the same about store bought fish ever again.

It's been more like spring time here and my trees are confused.

Despite the cold nights, our fig tree has come out in full leaf.

Oooooh. Thanks Giselle

I will post pictures soon.

I use Picasa 3 which is a free download from Google. I really like it. All I use is lightness, shadow, and occasionally straighten or crop. I did about 50 photos in 15 minutes last night.

That being said I DID do wedding photography years ago which involved viewing and editing 1,000-2,000 photos per event so anything compared to THAT is a piece of cake.

Not listing my work is my biggest weakness. I just hate taking pictures and writing up descriptions.

I love doing the photos, HATE listing the items. What is your Etsy shop, Rebekah? I'm thinking I've visited before.

Lol Thanks ... I feel the same about parents with multiple kids! (When do they sleep?!)

Stay home one day and watch you tube videos, particularly in your fields of interest! Then report back to us.

Ooooh, I like it, that counts as work!!

I will keep an eye on it though. So far this last one is the only one that has had us coughing, the other two were just runny nose and sore throat. No fevers or anything serious. Just intensely annoying.

When you have children at home colds happen.

Yep, they're little germ magnets! LOL

How else ya gonna have fun. Good for you Giselle.

Yup ☺

That is good, Giselle! Hope you were able to get some zzzzzzz's

8 hours! Ready to go again!

Tom, would you prefer iron red or a nice glossy clear?

Joel I woke up this morning and realized I glazed twenty things in one color, was done with that color and design .... except I forgot *one* pie plate. Fortunately I haven't fired yet.

Thumbs up.

Good luck!

I have a few photos of the orange/peach poppies up in my gallery if anybody wants to see. I am still not sold on it so I'm going to run some tests with each color interior paired with poppies in peach, orange/peach, and orange so I can compare them all. I have a feeling that some will go better together than others.

how much I enjoy sharing this with my dad.

Also I have discovered something. I don't have trouble sleeping when the kiln is firing .... I have trouble sleeping when the kiln is about to be opened. I got about 3 hours of sleep on Saturday night because I was so excited, got up at 6:30 am, rushed over, and caught my dad eating breakfast. LOL

I'm sorry about your dad's hard work getting wrecked. That's really sad, but he'll be ok; he has a wonderful daughter to cheer him on, not guilt. Go Dad!

I'm glad you had results you wanted. Relax, Rethink, Remake and fire away.

Best Wishes for your Open Studio!

250 sounds like a great number! Holy cow you have been busy! (:

Best wishes for a successful opening. You got it.

I think galleries use the information when they cary an artist as part of their permanent gallery artists. This makes it easier to answer questions from customers. I think it is pretty routine. I recently had a gallery "not bother" with gallery sheets, and then I got a panicked email from a gallery sales person wanting information about how I made a particular piece. I prefer galleries that keep that type of info in their office. That's is why they get paid 50% if their sales pers...

It isn't that they wanted information about how the work was created, I was just a little stumped by a resume requirement. I'm entirely self-taught. Thank you to everyone for the response. As I mentioned to Tom, I want to be 100% fine with hearing NO and not take it personally. Denice: that bothers me. What does a degree have to do with the quality or kind of art you make.

I hope I am not irritating any of the lovely people who have art degrees when I say that. It's just that either your work is of a high enough caliber for a show, or it's not. I have seen plenty of low quality work made by art school graduates so it really should rest on the work itself more than anything else, should it not?

Get feeling better.

Ginger tea! Feel better! ):

Eating ginger in every possible form. LOL

I laughed at the popping up at people thing. Shelves do look bigger in the photos. Interesting that people handled middle more. Either way not too much to worry about just improve and learn like u said. I bet others will have better comments who actually do shows unlike me. I was just coming from a consumer stand point. I like ur pots a lot was surprised u didn't sell much. But I guess it happens.

Oh, no, I really value it. I had a couple people send private messages and I have gotten completely unique perspectives from every single person. Also I can't exactly ask my customers what they think of my display, they're hardly going to give an honest critique! LOL People would come up and I would have this moment to decide whether I stood up and startled them or stayed sitting down and watched them creepily from between the shelves. I felt like I was hunting wabbits.

Thank you, by the way. This kiln load had barely any "whoops" to it. A couple things had to be ground off but no bubbling, nothing to be refired for the first time ever. Shocking.

I know you will max the happiness. Best wishes.

Go big. Like your heart. Best wishes for happiness and success.

BUT I SAID I WOULDN'T DO THIS ANYMORE. LOL Last year I did this all year and couldn't handle it all the glazing that followed. Now I'm not even scared.

Glaze firing. One single 1/8" thick, 2" diameter cookie exploded at the top and infiltrated every single shelf.

Duncan teacher plus kiln, 3 items did NOT have shards inside. I went to go unload (it's my dad's kiln) and he had ground off every shard so I could refire. All I have to do us touch up.

He knew I was planning to smash them and he was so sad that it was the whole kiln. I don't even know how long it took him. I have a very nice father.