I spent the morning finishing up some wet decoration on the last of the freshly thrown pots.  Time to get things drying and hopefully get another bisque through tomorrow.  CraftBoston is coming up pretty soon so I actually need to start getting some work finished so I can move on to the ritual of the pre-show booth tweaking.  

I’d like to get 2 firings through the reduction kiln and see what’s left after the show.  I’ll have about 10 days until the Trunk Show that we’re doing at my folk’s place in NY over thanksgiving weekend.  If I need another firing and close to having enough to fill the gas-kiln again I’ll fire off again.  Otherwise, I might spend a few days getting back to that dirty red earthenware and get a quick electric kiln load through for Thanksgiving weekend.

These pics are from Friday.  I should probably take tons of pics and save some so even when I have a long weekend with old friends I can pretend that I was also busy in the studio and sprinkle some pottery pics in between the food and exploring pics.  

Anyways…here are some B-Mix cups with black slip and some incised lines.  I’m curious to see how these will play with the stoneware cups with the black incised lines.

Here are a few covered pieces that I threw.  I usually just call them boxes even though that’s not totally accurate.  I threw these as a closed form and let them set up.  Step 2 was to use a needle to cut through in the right spot to separate them.  I threw a coil to create the flange so the lid would fit nice and tightly.  Old form for me…new method of making them.

Here are a few oval vases that I squeezed together right after I threw them.  I typically throw these without a base and then attach a slab.  These were done with the “Briscoe” technique of using a piece of wood to squeeze the base.  I felt like I had left too much clay down on the base so I ended up cutting feet away from them after they set up.  I’ll try to get some pics up tonight.  I really love making oval vases.  They are so easy to arrange flowers in that even I can make them look nice, they are great to decorate because you have two sides to work with and lastly, they are so easy to find space for in the kiln…taking up what would have been wasted space.

I had planned on being done with wet work by today but I think I’m going to give it 2 solid days of throwing and then start prepping to glaze while I cycle through a couple more bisques.  If all goes as planned…I should be glazing by this weekend.  Now that it’s in writing I guess we’ll all see how that goes.

The kids needed an outing…so did Abigail and Steven’s dogs.  Stale bread, a beach and some gulls seemed like a good idea.

Last time we saw her Javi was about 4 months old and just about as tough a little 4 month old as there is…a kid with colic isn’t too fun.  Anyways…he’ll be 6 in February…so clearly, it’s been a while.

I did get some more work done in the studio and was all set to upload some pictures that I took last night but I think Evangelina took the camera with her to the beach just now.  

I feel like I haven’t been blogging enough…definitely not enough pottery-related blogging but that’s just the way it is right now.  I’ll definitely be doing some food blogging later today because I have quite the feast planned.  Littleneck clams steamed with white wine and garlic, oysters on the half-shell…maybe the quarter-shell…I’ve never shucked them at home before so hopefully it all works out, and finally some pasta with crabmeat.  Abigail and her husband Steven are coming in from Michigan so I thought I would go with as much New England seafood as I could find for night number one.

I finished up most everything in the studio this week but then made more and have a lot of “chasing” of plastic to do.  I’m not sure what I’m going to do in Austin…things are going to dry much faster than I’m used to.  This week I made a bunch of mugs and left them uncovered overnight to put handles on them in the morning.  They weren’t ready in the morning so I left them out all day and overnight again….they still weren’t ready until the following afternoon. 

Well…pics when I get the camera back and probably some food blogging along the way tonight.