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Gallery xmas orders are piling up-the pressure is ON

Gallery xmas orders are piling up-the pressure is ON

Glaze or bisque firing almost every day this week. Big push to finish EVERYTHING in time for my Open Studio which starts Saturday.

Finally got back into the studio today. Been a while. Spraying tomorrow.

First efforts at using CriCut for silkscreen, printing underglaze onto rice paper, and then transferring images to pots...pretty darned successful. 'Learned a lot!

Getting ready to test some underglazes in a cone 05 fire; the completed studio reorg is downright inspiring-I can find everything and have more working space!

3 weeks of a sinus cold and no pottery makes a man go crazy. Well this man anyways. Trying to get back into my studio tomorrow!

Finally home after too much traveling. My online class begins on Monday. Now to fulfill some orders and begins downsizing. I'll be liquidating my library and downsizing studio. Potters Attic sales.

Cutting a kiln shelf

Glaze fire cooling day and I'm already out of fingernails to chew...oh, the agony!

Looks like I have a causalty of war in the studio. Went out early to shut down the two test kilns: one was frozen in "8888" LED status. Lightning came through at 4am/: think it is fried.

Wow. Unpacking my treasures from my co-artists of the past 2 weeks. Great experience and intense friendships formed with complete strangers by our creative interaction.

Pressed 120 gallons in 4 hours with 24 helpers

Pressed 120 gallons in 4 hours with 24 helpers

Getting ready for Pirate Weekend on Massacre Island/Mobile, Ala. next Saturday. Checklist includes eye patch, dogs, sticks, greenware, and some fired pottery! Must practice saying, Arrrrrr!

I'm just now getting on the screenprinting bandwagon for transfers...and the CriCut option for making silkscreen masks is a game changer...yep, that's all I need...another ADHD design option #smh

Any tips applying for ceramic teaching jobs?

After a summer spent in a kind of funk, I'm back madly working. I find that if my mind is not clear, I cannot work. So frustrating! But it's clear now and I'm excited and happy to be in the studio again. I feel refreshed.

Wow...has this summer flown by! The farm production is slowing down. The days are getting shorter...this all means more time in the studio with my hands on the clay instead of in the dirt and manure!

Firing a big kiln bisque today-show coming up

Lately, I have been at a loss to decorate, anything. I have no problem throwing, just what to do next. I just look a pots and wonder.

So excited about this forum!

It's getting real, people. I just ordered the gravel base for my concrete kiln pad!

Lately, I have been at a loss to decorate, anything. I have no problem throwing, just what to do next. I just look a pots and wonder.

Element changing day. All the pots that were underfired in my recent element faillure have been refired. A few ended up overfired, but most are ok, including the order of 10 plates (phew).