GiselleNo5

... succeeded!" That was, I think, the best moment for me.

Thanks for the follow up. Interesting day it sounds like. I would keep making what you love and just find people who like it.

and one for whatever. They're also about 12 inches deep and I can actually keep them in front of my wall shelves and just swing them out (carefully) like a huge door when I need to get at something stored on the wall shelves (I will only store things I don't use very often). Plus I can move them to wherever I'm working or loading the kiln.

I know you cannot ever have too much storage and especially in a pottery studio you MUST have empty shelves for your current work.

I have crashed several pieces moving shelves around. They were usually out of view and had been sitting around for a while. I figured they will come out better the next time.

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.

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!!

Oooooh. Thanks Giselle

I will post pictures soon.

It's Speckled Buff from Laguna, which has been formulated to mimic naturally occurring clay deposits found in the East.

I think you are on the right track, Giselle. The bulk of my sales are during the holidays. So,I should probablys start making ornaments NOW!! I am glad you started this thread. Makes me think.

Sounds like a good plan, Giselle.

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.

Giselle, why not do one of Antoinette Badenhorsts' e-courses? She'll help you with getting used to porcelain. Be it hand building or throwing!! http://www.porcelainbyantoinette.com/

Evelyne, thanks for the tip!

I don't plan to work with porcelain but if I do I'll keep that in mind. I like working with stoneware. I was only throwing with my dad's porcelain was to make some mugs for him. I trimmed and attached the handles last night and they look really great.

I'm with you Giselle, Horrible stuff till it is fired.

I still have a lot of my second kiln load of wheel thrown stuff (the first load is to be kept or gifted, not sold. Too funky!) and I have really progressed to better forms and surface design. My solution was to put all those pieces I didn't like in one spot and leave them unpriced. Anybody who asked the price already liked them, so they weren't JUST buying them because they were cheap. Unloaded a few, but mostly full-priced stuff and even just had one online sale from someone who...

... someone who came in today, bought nothing, but ordered from home. Had really great conversations with a few visiting potters, who were all very kind and friendly. No sneering as I had imagined.

I didn't realize I was being tough. I just was being reasonable! Did you have the gallery yet?

Hahahaha lovely mental image I have now ... thanks everybody ....

Some glazes stink worse than human waste after time!

I have some pretty stinky green slip to be honest ....

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?

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.

Get your DHMO level checked out

Mark: I have an appointment next week. So scared.

I felt better on Wed. Spent the day in the studio although my throwing was off. Busy in the house, played with my kid. Big mistake. Thurs back in bed sicker than ever.

I posted some photos of works in progress, there are some of my red clay pieces in there. It's really, really red. Also some guinea pig beads, actually!

WAT OMFG GOING NOWWWWWW

I'm glazing them today, going to try an oxide rub to show detail. One is going to be black-and-white spotted for sure.

I've been on more of a carving kick lately.

Exciting. Are we going to see more slip work in the gallery soon? I just ordered my super duper extruder based on your recommendation today. And some Flex Grips for my GG. Going to be getting my butt back in gear since my son is back in school now. Can't wait to see your new stuff.

I am going to be glazing a bazillion pieces of bisque and then starting a cycle of white clay, which I slip trail. Soon! I may even post some YouTube videos. I'm trying to find a really good tripod that I can angle the right way over where I'm working.

^^ congrats, I have never had that happen yet. TO THE FUTURE!

I KNOW! Didn't quite know what to do with myself.

The glaze load before that 23 out of 27 items had chunks of exploded bisque in them. So. I'm not getting too cocky yet.

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 think people make the bullet journals way to complex. It should really be something quick that you spend like 10 minutes a day on. But yea I have no idea. I have never made one. Thinking about trying it this school semester.

Hm. Maybe I should research "SIMPLE bullet journal". Since I tend to make things complicated anyway simple is GOOD. Let me know if you try it, Joseph, I'm curious how they work. I definitely could use something to be more organized. Too much going on in my mind at any given moment.

Yea. I dunno. I am not the type of person that makes journals. I can remember most task I have to do. I was mostly thinking about it for school assignments. We will see if I ever get "around" to it.

Really great Giselle! Love the new work!

Thank you all for your kind comments. I am so pleased with the last kiln load ... at least ... It misfired so half the kiln load is perfect and the other half has bubbling and crawling. But I honestly would prefer that than there being something slight wrong with every piece!

I really like the inlay effect. Looks great!

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

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.

Get feeling better.

Ginger tea! Feel better! ):

Eating ginger in every possible form. LOL

me too really cool seeing all your stuff being made.

Joel: This made me laugh because I feel like I post tons of stuff being made but nothing ever appears to be finished.

I went and looked at your account (to make sure I was thinking of the right person) and I realized I only see maybe 1/5 of your posts in my feed. Grrr Instagram.

I had a talk with my one friend who is an experienced potter and her advice matches yours exactly. At this point it's an unusable item so I'm not risking anything. Really I had lots of good results and lots of items that came out beautifully and this is only my third kiln load ever. I'm just being a perfectionist.

Wow. 3rd load with successful pots is fantastic. Congratulations. Im on my like 50th firing and I still toss away 99% of everything.

Oh my word I would die. I'm using commercial glazes so I'm sure that makes a difference. This load I would say 1/2 were wonderful, no flaws, the othe 1/2 had tiny flaws mostly and a few were really messed up. The kiln we used is huge, its so big I have to stand on a 2 ft stepladder and bend upside down to load the bottom shelf.I fired around 75 items. I'll post photos tomorrow.