12 days of mayhem...

I pinched this one from Hannah this morning...

interlude...

hey all a little interlude in the table construction and a quick kiln filler time as 4 tiles decided to warp out in the last firing....oh yey...

so a few flat plates and some new hand built plates as you may remember the screen workshop pt 2 was play time for me and i've decided to repeat the textured backs which you can see above and i just realised i didn't take pics of the backs i must rectify that tomorrow, my list is growing and no pressure or anything this week.. HA!!.....

How many times have you witnessed someone picking up your wares and immediately check out the bottoms???? so this is kind of a 'surprise ending' so to speak... in the bucket a stack of tile recuts ready for recycling...and a few buckets of mush that have been waiting for the same for ages...

and the last tiles below are ready for inscriptions to go under the tables on completion with a dedication note for the clients... so here's to a busy week getting sorted to cement these guys down and working out all the finer details....

my open studio sale went well, a little quieter than last year and perhaps my marketing needs to be bumped up a notch...chats later on that one...

open studio christmas sale

hi all, hope you can drop by..sat 12th dec 10am - 4pm... my address is on the flyer, cheers all..

fresh slideshow...

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ah at last!!... my last cone 6 firing.. lovely new teapots also in the black satin glaze...spot the blunder on my colour cups!! not half hard eh? note to self write a note to self on making cups!!

i'm off to the urban cow studio tomorrow with some new pots and firing the last kiln load of table 2 tiles...

and if you're nearby this saturday is my open studio, hope you can drop by and have a cuppa and search for some gifts...cheers all, happy week in the clay stuff...

fresh...

here's a little sample from my last firing....the plates from print workshop came out fab... there's underglaze deco, glaze colour and layering of glazes too, all makes for a rather rich surface...so now all i need to think about is imagery that i'd like to use over and over... i really like the scroll pattern that simone had and everyone went crazy over the face images so i'm thinking i may tweek that idea... the 1st plate also has a textured back, it was rolled out with a pastry roller and has come up yum..

so a quick update i'm onto the last couple of glaze firings for the table tiles and i'll put something together soon with vid, ah the deadline looms!....