GiselleNo5

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.

I'm in California, so if I had a million dollars I'd buy a one-room shack with an outhouse in the back yard and with the dollar left over I'd buy a soda.

I would definitely smile and laugh a lot. Then travel with my wife.

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.

^^ 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.

Exciting!

Remember the famous saying: "Fire first and ask questions later." Okay, not so famous, I just made it up.

LOL! I had mostly good results. A couple of my new dipping glazes are a bit thick so I'll adjust them but nothing is ruined. My dad insisted on firing at Cone 6 which my Cone 5 glazes did NOT like; I had a couple glazes drip that have never dripped before. Otherwise a successful glaze load!

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.

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.

Good luck!

I've used dry before but went back to the premixed. Just to save the time.

White chunks can also be frit- not unusual for them to form if the dry mix draws moisture. The easy fix- place it in the kiln at 160F, and then sieve.

Hmm. I don't know enough about glaze chemistry to tell the difference. All I know is, I'm glad to be paying less, and making sure those hunks are not on my pottery. I expected mixing the glazes to take way more time than it did. Keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.

My son is a fruit kid as well. He will eat a whole box of blueberries, strawberries, etc etc like it was nothing.

Lol yes! We bought this enormous bag of clementines, snd an hour later half were gone and this enormous pile of peel was on the table! I mean there were like 30 in the bag.

I like Satsumas from LA. (Lower Alabama). Satsumas are tangerines but tangerines are NOT Satsumas! Make a list of what you plan to throw. Copy from an example. Use the example as a blueprint, to let you know what and when to do the next step.

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!!

Nice work!

Thank you! Out of the whole kiln only three pieces misbehaved. Not too shabby!

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

Yup ☺

= )

So glad all went well Giselle! Congrats.

That's wonderful. Glad you enjoyed yourself. May you have many more days like this.

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?

Those obvara pots you posted were poetry in pots. I wish I could afford to buy one so bad!! ♥♥♥ I think my hugest bisque load was seventy-one pieces back in college. I took up the huge oval Skutt & a round, haha! That was HELL to glaze!

Yeahhhh I'm neck deep in glazing right now. *sigh* Not my favorite part but I'm excited to see finished results. This load would have been more pieces but I had several large (for me, 4# is large) pots and bowls that took up more room.

Btw, you must be thinking of someone else because I've never tried obvara. Yet!

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.

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.

I spent it crying for cooler weather. LOL. Glad you are having fun.

The weather is one of the best things about living on the coast of California. The drought however is one of the worst things ...

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 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.

... 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.

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.

I'd prescribe a healthy dose of clay work as the best therapy...welcome back!

Welcome to the world of the living. GO MAKE MORE BEAUTIFUL THINGS.

My best wishes! Send that bug into the desert....