Mark C.

Its another Friday glaze day-then load both kilns and fire the small one today

So is there a realistic weight of clay to pull certain height cylinders and does it depend on the skill more than the clay? I swear some clays are so difficult to pull up and others want to reach for the sky.

I hate filling out employment applications and resume even if it means a 75 percent wage increase...now the wait for the call begins!

Yesterday I sat down to do some editing of my website ... and could not find it. Gone. Not in my time machine backups, not anywhere on my disc, gone from the application. LUCKILY, it is still live online ... do not ask me how that happens. The help people offered a way to retrieve all my data from the online site but I have to go in and re-configure and edit since it does not refine anything. My site is over 100 pages so I will be here for a while. I have decided to treat it like a bad...

xmas production is going thru 400-500#s of clay per week now

xmas production is going thru 400-500#s of clay per week now

xmas production is going thru 400-500#s of clay per week now

If you can catch Brian Wilsons last world tour with Al Jardine

feeling liberated. I gave away 5 heavy boxes of decades worth of ceramic magazines to aspiring artists and teachers in the area. Teachers love having magazines i their classrooms!

If you can catch Brian Wilsons last world tour with Al Jardine

Gallery xmas orders are piling up-the pressure is ON

Gallery xmas orders are piling up-the pressure is ON

Well I am having my house painted lavender. Nothing to do with clay. just love the color

The easy way to get beautiful pottery is to buy it from someone else.

Glaze day again-boy it comes up every week this time of year

Pressed 120 gallons in 4 hours with 24 helpers

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!

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

I have made my Christmas production list, and am now terrified...

Loading a bisque today after a 3 week sales break

Loading a bisque today after a 3 week sales break

They accepted our offer on the red Lodge house so we're moving' back to Montana! So excited. We'll probably begin the move with studio equipment and then start showing our house. Should be moving by the Spring.YAY!

This semester I'm starting the transition from Cone 10 reduction to Cone 6...is that like moving to "the dark side"?

Home from Montana. 3800+ miles round trip. Great to go back to Montana and see friends and former students . They have been waiting for us to come back for 10 years. What a great feeling!