Joe_L

You could ask on FB Clay Buddies....lotssa people will be glad to tell you.  Need a photo, of course.

Post a picture here and give us a shot at it!

It's been daubed now. Nothing like other people wanting to see your unfinished work to release the creative juices!

Sometimes I have no memory of having made that kind of work ... funny to me but not them ... I look through old slides ( I did say old ) and love to be surprised by what I used to make. Maybe I will add a page to my site if I can figure out how to transfer the slides with my printer.

You used to be able to send slides off for processing, dunno if you still can. Or get one of those little scanners but I've never found the quality good enough. Slides have such high contrast it doesn't come out well.

Nice bit of satisfaction.

Life does that sometime.

And even better, this weekend is PotFest. Always a great day out. http://www.potfest.co.uk/in-the-park/

Excellent!!! Congratulations!

Bravo. In the States it is customary to frame the first dollar from your first sale.

HAHAHAHAHA

Why do you use a table saw to slice lemons?

Oops, I read table but saw table saw!!

Now you have to download it into your synapses.

Or put the recipes in your memory palace!

both are great books!

Probably both, overthinking it and expecting more.

I will go with door #2: expectations.

Wipe on, wipe off.

Best wishes.

Thank you. It'll be interesting to focus on someone else's expectation.

Congratulations!

I would also recommend the Ahn Sisters.

ooh, will look them up. I also like the Unthanks from your part of the world?

You are in the UK: you do not have elves, but I heard there are plenty of leprechauns running around.

I think they're Irish. Maybe I'll just try a batch of bigger pots.

I have gotten bowls down, cylinders are another matter. Old dogs can learn new tricks.

I buy bamboo kitchen tools, cut off the handles and make ribs of them. Spoon rib is great for bowls.

Tricky! Iron-rich stoneware, apparently a good thrower.

Here's an example of someone using it:

http://www.oakwoodceramics.co.uk/Teabowls & Yunomi-John-Mathieson.htm

TY- got it now. Pictures when you turn it from mud to rock.

Keep walking, you will get there. Learning curve in everything.

They're not warped, they've got character.

Not bad is so much better than terrible

Well if you survived the glazing part you're well on your way!!

the toughest part of pottery making.

Yeehaaa! Success. Thanks for the vibes - it was definitely worth the wait.

Ive been testing for a year, still haven't found glazes that I love enough.

Are you making your own? I can imagine that's a whole new ballgame I can see myself getting into one day but for the moment I'm using commercial glazes.

I used to use commercial. There are a lot of beautiful ones, but the price was just too steep for me. So yea I make my own now, although I have probably spent too much on testing anyways. Tin oxide isn't cheap.