another firing!

Last week I did some work getting ready for the firing Ryan is doing today, mostly cleaning the dust off the pieces (they've been sitting on the shelf for a while), putting underglaze in my signatures, and waxing them.  I also painted the little test cup you can see at the bottom, to see how the black underglaze looks under a couple of Ryans glazes.

All my stuff glazed, and a couple of ethans pieces in the back.  All I'm using this time is a blue glaze and Ryan's green/orange/black.  All of these pieces are wadded and ready to salt-fire!

Ethan spent around three hours painting his little pot with underglazes :P  He is as anal as me sometimes...

Lastly, a dog of course.  My family went fishing on the bay in MA, and there was a boat dog!  Half wolf and half german shepard, 'pal' was a super sweet and beautiful dog.

fun times!

Well, there are probably not going to be too many updates areound here for a while, or at least pottery updates.  I, being my talented self, somehow managed to break my hand! Very exciting.  So though I will continue to post dog pictures, I will not be doing much throwing until I get this sucker off.  Maybe not much typing either, its a pain with my cast :P

However, as I mentioned, there are always cute dogs.  This is my precious puppy Ki, failing to sit still in Justin's lap. He loves being in laps, but it seems that he gets so excited he can't stop moving around. I dont let him in my lap very much.

Lots of cups!

The tumblers and teabowls are trimmed!  I loaded a big bisque today, so these will be ready to paint/wax resist soon! I am excited to see how the turn out; hopefully I will be happy with them so I have something pretty that doesn't take an hour to decorate.

One of my Aunts requested that I make some wine glasses/goblets for her, which I have never tried before!  The tops were fairly easy, I just did simple shallow bowls rather than a taller cup, but the bases were a pain! I havn't really ever tried to make something really skinny AND have a wide top!  The clay doesn't really like it.  I threw all of these off the hump, which is always fun.

More dogs! The brown/golden one has been in before, but I don't remember his name :P He is sweet and very hyper.

Today I went in and got the goblets all put together. Not the prettiest ever, but they should look better once they are glazed.  Havn't decided if I'm going to carve on these yet.

Teabowls and tumblers

I've gotten a few pots done this week!  I'm throwing some stuff to try out my underglaze/wax resist designs, hopefully this will result in stuff I can make faster and sell cheaper :)  Today I threw some little teabowls, I promise they will look better once I get the bases trimmed.  I may do some stripes on these, or more complicated designs.  Ryan has some cups with stripes, so I kind of want to try to not get too close to his designs.







Monday I made some short tumblers.  I am hoping for some great results from the tumblers since they are so darn easy to throw, and require practically no trimming.












And because this obviously is 1/2 a dog blog, my friend just adopted an dog!! Her name is Aida and she is adorable!

I just finished getting all the stuff from the last firing up on Etsy!  Very exciting to finally have recent work up for sale.  Now I am super excited to get the B-mix work fired so I can put that up too!  Now that my store actually has stuff in it, I am also putting together a facebook Page that I plan on inviting everyone I know to become a fan of :P