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Sponge holders and berry bowls, just loaded the kiln with these and some 6 lb bowls.

Sponge holders and berry bowls, just loaded the kiln with these and some 6 lb bowls.

Sponge holders and berry bowls, just loaded the kiln with these and some 6 lb bowls.

Sponge holders and berry bowls, just loaded the kiln with these and some 6 lb bowls.

Got to open the kiln last night, almost everything came out great, which is a blessing for sure.  Started another glaze load last night and hope it's just as dope.
 

I will never forget the frog poop, that will haunt me to the grave... 

I've been busy filming and editing YouTube videos.  Need to get back on the mugs and bowls wagon though, so will get back to normal making soon.  
I also need to finish my website and get things moving on the business end, I just only have so much time in the day, someone clone me please!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRyK3g9rImtTJfaI5iGAP4w

https://makikohastings.blogspot.com/2019/05/naming-does-matter-my-thought-on.html?m=1
 
I’ve come across about 5 references to this blog post today, despite spending a total of 20 minutes on social media. So after finally reading it, I feel very strongly it belongs in this conversation right here. It’s written by a Japanese artist who has spent half her adult life in the UK, and tells of her frustrations in watching words and concepts that are deeply held and respected within the Japanese culture used and abused by many from the west in order to sell things. 
She speaks about wanting to encourage those who are curious about and inspired by her (and other) cultures to investigate them, and learn. Learn so you actually DO honour what you are learning to love, and so that you don’t accidentally insult it. 
Most importantly, she has a reference for westerners that she recommends on the topic of Wabi Sabi, which is a term frequently misused and abused by potters who have an incomplete and often wrong. understanding of the concept. 

Mugs mugs mugs.  Gonna do another 45 this week and then work on some other things.  Been chasing around a teapot idea for a while so we will give that a shot.  In the meantime, mugs mugs mugs

Organic and dirty vs. clean and clinical, they both serve a purpose I think.

I throw the cylinders and give them to my wife at leather hard,  she paints them with underglazes and puts the the gems on.

Organic and dirty vs. clean and clinical, they both serve a purpose I think.

Organic and dirty vs. clean and clinical, they both serve a purpose I think.

Organic and dirty vs. clean and clinical, they both serve a purpose I think.

Organic and dirty vs. clean and clinical, they both serve a purpose I think.

Organic and dirty vs. clean and clinical, they both serve a purpose I think.

Nice!  We finally got some good days of weather and I finally got a little better hold on my settings.

I agree with Callie, Dreamcatchers are a good example of why you should not create art with cultural items/images specific to another culture without 1st educating yourself thoroughly . They are a disgusting, mutated abomination born of ignorance and disrespect for native culture.

I took them outdoors today because it was cloudy, I think this one is a little better
 

I made a thing. 

Not so much on the workbench, but finished and on the wall.

Well I only finished 15 bowls, but I got distracted.  A co-workers wife wanted to know if I could make a strawberry planter so I am giving it a shot.  I think I should have used more clay, I used 15lbs but it seems small to me, I'm gonna be throwing the bowls for the side tonight and attaching them and see how it goes.  Might be able to get some of that Microsoft money I've heard so much about around here! Hah
 
I will say, I wouldn't have been able to do this on my old wheel, I had to stand up to pull on this one, it was 2 feet tall at one point!  Loving my new wheel

Round 1
 

Hah not quite, more like hack of all trades, master of none

Did a glaze firing over the weekend, here's some of the doggie bowls and a few of the more interesting mugs.  Loving my new digital controller.