Getting ready for Sale

Just a little taste of some the goodies I'll have at Ron this weekend. Today I will be glazing. So much to do, so much to do!
Hope everyone is having a good week and I'm looking forward to visiting with some folks this weekend at the Sale!

( PS...I did in fact change the 'QUEST' to "Guest" a few posts down..if anyone caught that. Please, you are always welcome to TYPO corrections! Its a miracle I don't miss more considering how quick I do my posts most days as well as the time I day I post!)

Happy St. Patricks day everyone. Everyone was dressed in green today going out the our door for school! I think I'll partake in a little beer this evening to celebrate!

Something to share..

I'm not one for having a lot of tools in fact, I use to laugh at the huge boxes my students would bring to class with everything under the sun in them. I spent almost every class borrowing something because I just didn't come with all my favorite tools every week. Pretty much all I throw with is a sponge, wooden cut tool, fetlin' knife, small trimming tool, needle tool and a metal rib that I use for everything under the sun. At the potters conference I picked up these two new tools. I just kept picking them up and looking at them while I was at the conference so I thought I might as well try something new. This trimming tool is made out of bicycle spoke and they say it never rusts. Guess we'll see since I'm not one to clean my tools that often. The other tool is just for scoring. I score alot with anything I can find really...pens, needle tool and my metal rib with the teeth ( when I can find it!)

I've been enjoying these I must admit!

Off to turn up the kiln. Looks like Mr. Philbeck is really cleaning the place up for my arrival this weekend. Better show up with some good work!

Bone dry pots..

I've slowly been loading my kiln. Below are some new small flower blocks. All the daffodils are popping up all over our yard so naturally my thoughts have turned to flower vases/blocks and bottles. Today I went to take down my show in at the Cleveland County Arts Council and we pleasantly surprised the I had sold a good bit of stuff while also having some great pots left over to add to my new selections for the up coming Spring Sale at Ron's this Saturday.

I'm excited to see how some of these new pots come out. The weather is going to be great...60's here in the South so I'm hoping for some good foot traffic.

On the home front everyone in the house hold is has been battling Pink Eye. Nasty Stuff!! Knock on wood the main care-giver has not yet contracted it! Poor Joey has been its latest victim. He's been trying hard to think of a way to mask his swollen eye tomorrow and sneak into work. Being one who loves a sick day I just told him "STAY HOME!". I can just see that "Pink Eye" bug as a little character with big feet, beady eye's and silly grin jumping all over the house trying to catch me!

(Maybe I should just encourage Joey to go to work in the morning!)

Weekend.....

I'm currently......(well sort of crazy) trying to catch up on studio work for the upcoming sale. We took the kids on an overnight to Great Wolf Lodge in Concord NC two days ago for Spring break so that was a little R&R for us. Always our spring breaks are spent just staying at home but the older the kids get the more I like to do one super cool adventure with them while they are on break. The waterpark was it and they had a blast! I think my brain is still water logged by the all the water slides!! ( I don't do motion very well....) I also think it was a first that I wasn't feeling like I needed to be home working. The older the kids get the more I understand how important it is to spend time with them and if I don't get 10 more pots made..well its OK.

I'll try to get some photo's up of pots as they come out of the kiln. I do have some saved from last week while they where being made.

Dashing off again to work!

Happy to be a Guest

On March 20th I'll be joining my fellow pottery pal Ron Philbeck at his annual Spring Sale. Ron has a great set up out in Shelby. He and his wife Sarah have a wonderful house that Ron and his Dad built along with an studio/showroom. They have worked hard for the last few years trying to get some landscaping done and home improvements finished. I'm always amazed everytime I visit what new things they have been up too . It also always fun going to another potters home to view all the great pots they have collected and Ron has some selection!!

The date is Saturday, March 20th from 10 am till 4pm here at the pottery. The address is 757 Wallace Grove Road. Shelby, NC 28150. You can use MapQuest to find your way.

I know Ron has been working really had this year on his earthenware pots and they just keep looking better and better. I think he plans on having a pretty big selection of work!

I to will have some new pots for the sale. I have been working on my evolving surface since Christmas and although the process is slow, I'm pretty happy with the results.

Please come by and say hello. Ron and I love to talk about pots and potters and other fun stuff!

If you get a chance today, stop by Ron's blog and wish him a Happy 40th birthday!

Quick Moments, Quick Shots

I'm condensing all my daily activities this week into what I like to call " quick moments"....everything except spending time with the kids, since they are home for the week and my studio time. Here are more covered mugs. I really didn't like how the last batch came out. The lids just moved around to much. I have a feeling it may take a many times of making these to get it right but I feel like I'm onto to something so I will try again with this batch.

New dinner plates.

Large bowls...

Two of my favorite boxes that came out of the kiln last week. I think I may have to keep these for some photographs.

Rolled, rim bowls with new colored clay handles. The colored clay and glaze combo needs more thought when the two are combined together. Once again....all stuff to still work out, but its getting someplace and I'm enjoying the possibilities.

Off to get the house cleaned up and the kids happy and engaged in some activity before I venture back out to work a bit.

More Conference Thoughts

Here are all three presenters this year for the 24th annual NC Potters Conference. Lorna Meaden, is in the black and came all the way from Durango Colarado. Bruce Cochrane flew in from Ontario Canada and Sara Jaeger lives in Helena Montana. All where extremely down to earth and worked very hard to answer all sorts of questions and finished several pots in a two day span.

As with every conference some times I enjoy the answers to the same old questions that seem to get asked while potters are up on stage frantically trying to work. Firing schedules, pricing your work, how much time does it take you to fill your kiln, packing and the age old question about how much clay they are using for each piece.

Since I got to see both Lorna and Bruce at the last Utilitarian conference I was trying to just watch the way in which they worked and handled each piece they where putting together. Both Lorna and Bruce do alot of altering so I tended to keep my eye's glued to what they where doing. Sarah on the other hand is a very soft spoken - simple potters who forms and straight forward but finished with such integrity that I found myself picking up her finished work in the gallery more and wanting to use it in my own kitchen.

Bruce was amazing to watch because he worked so fast and was extremely clean and precise with his cuts and altering methods. Bruce just finished teaching full time and I can imagine that he probably was a very patient instructor with his students. His slide presentation and forms really made you think about the construction methods he used and even though I can't say I've ever really been drawn to his sort of work I really was amazed with the thought process that goes into his forms. Bruce tended to get the most technical questions from the audience out of all three presenters. Many people would interrupt a totally different conversation that was going on with Sarah or Lorna to say "Hey Bruce..what did you just do there to the pot!!!!"

Here is Sarah working on a teapot.

Here is Lorna finishing up one of her covered jars. I really felt like I could be great friends with Lorna. She was very funny, sarcastic and quirky. I loved her slide lecture because she admitted that she doesn't always make pots that a super functional. She makes works that is fancy and just fun for her to create. My kind of potter! The final day I moved over to be right up close to watch her work. I too had to ask one of those age old questions " how long does it take you to make.....ect.?" Here punch bowls look like they would take a month to construct.

So, another good weekend of filling my head with thoughts, idea's and most of all motivation with my own work. I've been back in the studio getting ready for a Spring Sale at Ron Philbeck's studio on March 20th. The children are on Spring Break this week so I'm trying to balance doing alittle something with them while also trying to get some studio time. Today we went down to the old cemetery and did some grave stone rubbings. Cheap thrills! So nice that the weather has been sunny so everyone can play outdoors while Mom opens up the studio for some fresh air and the sound of children laughing.

NC Potters Conferance-"Talking Heads"

I thought this was one of the best photo's I could share of the NC Potters Conference this weekend. Here I am sitting behind Micheal Kline and Ron Philbeck while they are listening to Ayumi Horie talk about how to market yourself/pots on the world wide web. She also gave alot of credit to Micheal and Ron for all they do on their blog site, which I have to admit is pretty inspiring in my eye's. They both have great blogs and do such a good job of keeping us all informed and engaged.

I have to say that this talk she did was my favorite part of the conference and was very motivating for me. I've listened to her talk now twice about her marketing techniques and I am always amazed at how smart she is but sincere in her approach as well towards her customers. I am finding it harder and harder to keep up with galleries and doing shows and think perhaps I can take a few of her idea's and make them fit for my own life situation and work cycle. Its seems to me if you have a family and you don't have a great show room or sales location right in your back yard, the web is a great venue for reaching customers. Since my production time has been cut way down and I'm starting to make work that is even more time consuming , selling my work myself on the web and trying to expand my market is very appealing.

I'll have more images from the conference to share through out the week.

Road Trip

I'm heading out in the morning for a little road trip. It will be nice to get away and be immersed in pottery talk. After all workshops and conferences my head sort of hurts with all the information I try to take in! I"m looking forward to seeing some blogging buddies like Ron, Micheal Kline and the folks from Bull Dog Pottery. I'm sure many others will be there as well. I'm sure Ron and Micheal will do a great job in keeping everyone up on what will be going on during the conference. Those guys are such computer wiz kids...to much for his gal to keep up with! These days I'm even to impatient to update my facebook page from my Iphone.

I'll be back on Monday with a few of my own photo's I hope and thoughts about the weekend. Hope everyone has as much fun as I plan on having this weekend!

Plate order

Just a quick peek at what came out of the kiln recently. I did a special order for a customer of mine who has one of my big bowls ( and some other stuff) and needed some dinner plates to match. The best thing about this order, which she doesn't know yet, is that on the back of each plate a wrote something about her which I have learned being a friend of hers on Facebook! You can really learn alot about a person by just reading there daily "check-in" posts. Hopefully she'll be happy with how they turned out.
I'm getting ready to head out of town this weekend for the North Carolina Potters conference. I'm looking forward to a little "alone" time and to learn some new things. All conference's and workshops always get me excited about going back to work.

Taking photo's

We spent part of the weekend trying to figure out my light box. As you can see the kitchen table seemed to be the only place that we had adequate light, table room and space to try it out. We had alot of trouble getting my gradated background to work so we just played around with a black cloths. I'm so anxious to get my etsy site up and going I can hardly stand it! But, I want to make sure I've got some good shots before we start going on that...

I'm throwing more lidded cups, flower blocks, plates and large bowls. This weekend I fired some dinnerware for a customer and more small things like tiles and test glazes. The test glazes didn't come out so great so nothing to show there.

The beginning of the week always brings such promise for getting lots of stuff done. We'll see how I do!

Wonderful Film- Lucie Rie

I sat down Thursday with my student to watch a film that was made about Lucie Rie in 1982. The interviewer was David Attenborough, from the BBC and trying to find a copy of it on the web has proved to be a bit difficult. Lucie Rie was one of the first female potters I knew about when I began throwing. I had a friend who was enamored with her bowls and glazes and he also was the person who first introduced me to throwing.
This film is great because I'm sure Lucie is in her 80's, in this film, still throwing and making all her glazes ( no gloves or mask which makes me laugh after we read so much about toxic materials in our field and she messed with many!)

Lucie forms seem so simple but when you watch her open up a lip and a bowl with a feddling knife you realise that her own way of doing this works just for her and would be impossible for most other to do. Her wheel sounds like a mack truck coming down the road and you have to wonder if it fueled by diesel!

If you have been one of the lucky one's to see this film you'll have to tell me what you thought about her comments about Bernard Leach. Interesting how when he first saw her pots he didn't like them but than, after he got to know Lucie, he told everyone to buy her work. Makes you kind of wonder if all those folks who have be come really famous are really great potters..or just in the right place at the right time!
http://www.csc.ucreative.ac.uk/index.cfm?articleid=19531

Its What's On The Inside That Counts!

So.... I'm kind of taken with this "what's on the inside" of pots this week. Working slowly to narrow down themes of my work is always on my brain and then the thought gets easily swept away when I"m in a hurry or rushing to get a load of work done. Shame on me when I do this! I'd like to think that the income I'm making with teaching is allowing me to not "crank-out" stuff. Some days I just don't get any choice but to only work in my studio for two hours and then the rest of the day in taken up with computer work, taxi service, "domestic" issues and all those other things in my life that take priority over my muse,which is creating and being just with me and my thoughts.

Anyways....I have made these similar shaped bowls for a number of years and about two years ago I started to focus on the inside a bit more. I have a potter friend who says her husband loves to eat out of these bowls because he can grab his veggies on that inside rim I fold over. He also likes having something to look at inside after he's done with his meal. Score on both those accounts!

On these bowls I've modified the handles to add the colored clay I'm now adding to all my work and instead of painting the flower on the inside, I'm also have the middle be a pad of colored clay.

Surprises are always a good thing!

Messy Days

Guess we all have days like this. Sometimes I enjoy just getting down right dirty with clay all over me, dust and water splattered from here to there. Yesterday was also rainy so the water, clay, mud and glaze particles where really all mixed together on my cloths!


I was thinking how I really needed to throw yesterday and how great it would be to have a apprentice to come in and do all these tasks that seems to go on for a whole day. I've heard many really successful potters who let folks use their equipment for trading out mentoring and work duties. Of course I don't really think I'm close to do anything like that but maybe one day when the kids are grown and I have what I like to call a REAL studio space.

Until than I guess I'll just wait for my little people get a bit older and make some of these tasks "chores" options. ( Well..not making my glazes..guess I'll keep doing that!)

More box info.

If you haven't checked out Ron Philbecks blog in the last week, you should especially if you like boxes.

Someone asked me a few post back if I could explain step by step how I make my boxes and I thought "boy, that would be a good video idea". My only problem with that is..well..I don't know how to make one of those fancy blog video's that I keep watching on everyone elses blog. But, that doesn't mean in the future I won't get my handsome "tech guy" to try one out. Anyways..enough about my lack of savvy tech. skills! What I did want to point out is that Ron has two great video's on how to make a fairly simple box and he does such a great job of explaining all the do's and don't as well.

As for my boxes, here are a few more shots of the lid/flange and the inside of the box. These boxes are pretty time consuming and take lots of fiddling' to get just right, but I enjoy making them so I've allowed myself the time to just add all these details instead of trying to speed the process up.

I love the idea of opening up a box and finding a little surprise inside.

No time to blog..

I apologize for not getting back on the blog circuit for a few days. I've had to focus on some domestic matters here at the house. ( Boy, doesn't that sound so presidential!) But here is proof that the pottery business does roll on here in York. I took these quick shots over the last few days. The top one is of the boxes after they have been thrown and trimmed with the wood shaving tool. Below are some finished ones before going into the bisque kiln.

This evening I'll try to get some more photo's of pots of been working on. Joey and I are eagerly awaiting the rest of my camera equipment so we can begin to set-up a photo station in the house somewhere. Hopefully by next weekend I'll have new pots fresh out of the kiln.

Enjoy the Olympics this weekend..I know we will!

Middle of the Week

This was the start of my boxes the other day. These types of boxes take a lot of time to make but I enjoy making them and haven't done so in a while so they where on my list this week. Things are drying SOOOOOOOOOO SLOW around here. Its like watching paint dry.... I also started to load up a bisque. Here are dinner plates, some bottles and my bread a butter...tiles.
One of my girls the other day asked me when I was going to take some of their drawing again and turn them into a "pot". Those of you who have been reading my blog for awhile remember that I tried this on a few plates but...they where just sort of "OK". I do like this idea. My girls have some great characters that they draw and I hate to let those images pass me by. I was thinking the other day that I may take a few of those images and change them a bit for alittle different subject matter on these tiles I make. So far I do flowers, houses and cupcakes. So many idea's some days pop into my head that I'm never sure if I'll ever be able to try them all. Good thing we have sketch books...right?

Craft buddies

The other night at dinner my Dad, Joey and I where talking about the new Kindles that where coming out. My Dad is a HUGE lover of books and we joke alot in my family about how the ceiling below his office is going to cave in one day because he has just stacks and stacks of books. He loves information, reading, art and politics. Back in the 70's he co-wrote a publication that talked about trends in higher education. He does a lot of consulting on this subject as well as writing grants now that he's retired. Since he loves to write and is full of all sorts of wisdom, I am trying to talk him into starting a blog of his own on education and the future/trends in this field. As for the netbook idea...he told us that he'll never give up buying books, but he does like the blog idea!

So since we all like to blog I thought I should point out that on my blog list you'll see that I don't only have potters listed. In fact today my very good friend Betty McKim who is a jeweler sent me the link to her new blog. Betty and I go way back and pretty much all the jewelry I own was created by Betty. She too attended ECU and has grown twin boys. She has also worked her way through trying to be a Mom and a crafts person through the years. Before I was a Mom, I can think back on all the experience she went through and put them to good use now that I'm dealing with the same issues. She gets a kick out seeing me deal with young children/twins now that hers are grown and out of the house.

If you get a chance , check out Betty blog. Her husband is also a great painter and they both have some interesting ideas/experiences to share.

Time to go work on some boxes in my studio!

Pots by Mail Order

I received a very cool mug in the mail on Friday.......

Fellow potter, blogger and Mom, Vicki Hartmen sent this lovely cup my way. It came all the way from Rochester NY so that was even more thrilling for me when I opened the box! Of course we got snow again here that very same evening so I'd like to think Vicki's cup brought some of the "white stuff" my way.( Once again, I was thrilled while everyone else around here scrambled to buy bread and milk at the near by store. )

I enjoyed several cups of coffee in this mug all weekend. It felt great in my hands and I really enjoyed looking at the detail Vicki puts into her drawing/decals. She has been kind enough to send me some information about decals so I may have to try a few of my own this year on some pots.

Please check out Vicki's blog if you haven't done so. Its very nicely done and she makes some fantastic pots. I love her forms.

We have had a very nice weekend. I've been back and forth in and out of my studio while Joey has been narrowing down some new ideas for a web/blog/etsy site for my work. We ordered a light box today and some new lights so I can take my own photo's. So I've been moving right along with the technical end of what "we" do when we are not making pots.

I wore some festive socks today for our Valentine's dinner with my folks.
I love a cool pair of socks!

Friday

I remembered today that some folks had some questions about sprigs and the drawing I do on my pots so I thought I'd just answer them for everyone.

Springs - I do make my own molds and I do press the clay into the molds as well as using slip for some of my sprigs. They are scored on both sides and applied while the pots are leather hard. I know someone asked me this a while back and I just never got the post answer back to them....

My drawings are incised in the leather hard clay as well. I use to do a lot of brush work but after taking a workshop with Julia Galloway, cutting into my surface with different tools was just so much fun, I've never gone back to a brush. But....never say never, right?

I was telling the my girls yesterday how much I use to LOVE Valentines Day as a kid. I would keep all my Valentines in an old candy box. Valentines today are so commercial. Why can't they just make these old sort of generic Valentines? Do you remember how the box came with an assortment and you had to pick and choose who got the big heart with the kitty-cat holding the pink bow, or the little boy and girl kissing? Quaid said he'd rather just have his Transformer Valentines and leave it at that. Spoken like a true 9 year old boy!

I went to great lengths this year to get the kids all Valentines with NO commercially advertised figures on them. It was hard, but we did manage end up with paper airplane valentines, flower seed ones and recycled paper book marks! Score...feels so good to have some control over what this crazy, media driven world. Mom's and Dad have a tuff time these days trying to keep everyone safe from words, music and images. The older my kids get the more questions we have coming at us in all sorts of directions that just make me want to change the topic REALLY FAST!

Ok, that is my rant for the morning. We are hoping for some snow this evening. So very sorry your folks in the North East have so much along with my pottery pals up in the NC mountains. I heard the winds where horrible the other day! Weekends are good for snow. Keeps the little people outside and happy.

Looking and Seeing

I think there is a difference between looking at your working and really "seeing" your work. Once we take something out of the kiln and realize that we have altered the appearance in certain way, we are happy. Visually this makes us go "AHHHHH"! But actually seeing what it is that we have done takes a while to register. Sometimes this information doesn't come to us until a pot is packed away for a bit and we see it a year later or another individual comments on something the glaze has done or the way we applied an element the we the artists did not even notice. I think we all save our favorite pots for a bit. This little cup is sitting by its self in my studio. Lots of information on here for my brain to think about while I make the next round of pots. After meeting with my "Pottery Pals" last week, I got a whole set of suggestions that where just little changes but I think will make a huge differences in what I'm doing here. Once again, I highly recommend having folks around you to talk about your work. Four eyes see so much more than two!

I plan on duplicating this cup and once I have the new one with the some small changes, hopefully I'll get some shots and post the two together and talk a bit about them.

As of today I'm back throwing and off to Winthrop for some more "coil pot" instruction. We are also doing a barrel firing today, which I'm sure the student will enjoy. Who doesn't like to play with fire?

Valentine's day is just around the corner so if you have kids, especially little girls I'm sure the hearts and the color "PINK" is everywhere! Have a great day!

Onto Monday

I enjoy Monday's. I always think there is such a fresh start to the week and anything I feel like I need to work on, weather it is studio work, something with the kids, or an attitude I've taken that needs to be turned around...whatever it is, I'm always hopeful to start fresh! The sun is out today so what could be better to start the week off on a good note.

Yesterday I went ahead a took out my elements that I fused together. It Looked like they stayed together for the most part but once I ripped them out..well that was it. I have no idea how you guys get those pins in that bottom grove of the kiln because when I actually get in my kiln and sit on the ground to put those pins in I feel like a stow-away in a box on a ship! Putting elements in is not fun but I'm starting to become a pro at it!

My kiln is back to good working order and I also bought some new Allen wrenches so I don't have to fire with the visual cones anymore. Below is a photo of some handy sheets I laminated that hang near the kiln. I took them out something that came with Ceramics Monthly a few issues ago. I'm sure those of you who get the catalog now what I'm taking about. Its lists all sort of useful technical information and since I like to refer a lot to book and not rely so heavily on my memory, having a chart about what temp. things heat up to along with what materials I can substitute for different ingredients-this is a handy reference near by.

I'm still working on a special order for those big bowls I was doing before Christmas. Here's another shot of them. This design is nothing like I usually make so its taken awhile to figure out what this customers wants and how to modify it a bit to fit my clay body, the bat size I have and what she wants these to look like. It was a bigger challenge than I had envisioned.

Today I'll get started on some plates and more covered mugs. I was not happy with the way my lids fit on the last batch so that challenge is going to be revisited.

Happy Monday everyone!

Good Days

Yesterday was not a studio day but still what I consider a work day. I had a good morning catching up on pottery talk with my "Pottery Pals", Ron, Amy and Julie. We got some showed lined up for the up coming year and I got to show them my new pots to get some feedback. Its so great to have a group of pottery friends to show my work too and discussion different shows and ways of dealing with customers. Even when you've been making pots for a few years, I find that I still needs lots of guidance each and every step of the way and its so great to get advise or opinions from other folks working through the same issues as myself. Plus...we all just have some good laughs together and that's important as well!

After a great morning, I was treated to a massage ( via gift card from my folks),which my sore back greatly appreciated and in the evening took my kids at a basketball game at their school. Lots of running around in the cold weather/rain here, but it was all worth it!

Today I cleaned and organized my studio, pugged some clay and met a new potter who is also a landscape designer in Gastonia NC. He came out to talk pots with me ( he too graduated from ECU a few years before me) and also offered us some much needed advise about our water problems. Hopefully we can get some of that resolved in the next year or so and then..I can get my salt kiln up and running.

So, here's a little trip down memory lane for some of you folks. The other day I was asking Joey if he remembered this song called Shake Down Cruise because it has resurfaced on the radio lately I've noticed. Does anyone remember what other song with guy sang back in the 70's???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nczFi1gRGvw&feature=related
Hope everyone is staying warm and dry this weekend. Have a good one and I'll get some pottery stuff up here in my next post.
Jen

Pots

I have to do a quick post. I'm trying to get my tax information in order today so we can get that out of the way.
My kiln came out pretty good. I got some good information from the last bit of pots I made with the new big sprigs. Here is my favorite cup. You can see the colored clay is a nice muted yellow. I kind of like this! I had to use the Iphone camera this morning because I was in a hurry so the next few shots are alittle dark and blurry. Kind of takes me back to the days I had that really bad old digital camera.

A few tiles. I really like the orange combination with my greens and aqua's.

The new covered pots gave me some idea's that I think I can work with. The way the black stain and the colors sort of go together gives the pot a more rustic look in a way to me. Hard to explain what I see..but I sort of like it!

Well, back to the paper work and onto to see my students. We are working on BIG coil pots. I'm pretty proud of how large some of my students have gotten these! Its amazing what clay can do...

Success!

As a child when the grass started peeking through the left over snow I knew that spring was on the way. This was most likely in May but here, well its the first day of February and the snow is going away. Yesturday was sunny and nice. I could hardly get the kids back outside! I spent the day glazing while the kids had a snow day. I am happy to report that the element splice did in deed work. I can't believe I've been doing pots for about 14 years and never new that trick!

I'm firing everything without my kiln sitter. The small arm that holds up has not been moved yet because I'm in need of a new set of Alan wrenches to get that sucker off! Its kind of nice watching the cones bend for a change but I have to admit you do get lazy just waiting for the kiln sitter to go off. Today I am glaze firing.

Don't you just love this little snowman!