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Monday, October 23, 2017

Getting ready for a show

Chip 'n Dip bowl - $45


Surf and sand mugs $25 or set of 4 for 80
For those who have canopy tents, tables or shelves, and tubs of packed of priced pottery, I salute you.
I've made pottery for most of the summer (with a few months off when I was sick).  I wish I had taken a vacation, but it's hard to do when you're retired, everyone thinks your life is just one long vacation.  Ha.
Honey pot/jar $35

And so today I meet with my friend Cathy Babul, who will be sharing a booth with me, and the job of getting everything set up next Saturday for the Art by the Tracks show here in Black Mountain.

Large red sunflower bowl (10" diameter, 5" high) - $55
There are joys in this event, as well as some grueling hard work.  Physical work.  Like having a 40 pound weight on each of the corners of the tent.  We have cement blocks.  Hauling them from Cathy's pickup to the tent is one of our favorite pleasures.  Just think how we're saving money on membership in the gym.
Medium yellow sunflowers bowl - $30

The other hard physical labor is loading tubs of pots, tables, and paraphenelia for the show....bags for sales, shelving units, table clothes, clipboard to keep track of sales, petty cash for change, a "Square for phone" to take charge cards....etc.

Red sunflowers vase - $30  Red sunflowers jar - $40

This is the red sunflower series...and I think I've shown just about all of them.

Monday, November 21, 2016

A tree of life and a lid

With new kinds of leaves...namely oak leaves!



Quote for today:


Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.
Florida Scott-Maxwell

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Three glazes on stoneware

Smallish jar of speckled brownstone clay with dip into 3 glaze colors

The inside is just matt bronze green

A matching pitcher, also smallish

It looks entirely different from different angles - and here you see the speckles from the clay come through the white satin glaze.

A bit of pitting where the matt bronze green was too heavy on the exterior.  Interior has no pits at least, but does have a big drip of the red coming inside over the rim.