Still plugging away in the studio.  It feels like I’m not getting that much done.  Maybe I’m not but slow and steady progress is better than nothing.  It’s pretty humid in there and I have a few more things that I want to make for my electric kiln firing so my idea of getting it all done before this weekend isn’t looking promising.  

I had planned on having some more pots made by now but that hasn’t happened yet.  I have been cleaning my studio and helping customers in the gallery.  I also shipped some work out to the Blue Heron Gallery up in Deer Isle, Maine for the first time.  I’m excited to have some work up there.  

An absolute disaster. And until I clean it up….no pictures. I have some mugs, pitchers and jugs needing handles but I don’t have a clean surface to work on them. I already mixed up a white slip for the earthernware I’ve been working with so, if I can get this place a little more organized I should be able to get everything finished up and maybe even slipped tonight.

I got a late start today. My sister-in-law graduated from her surgery resident program up in Boston last night. She’s already in the car driving down to Orlando to start her fellowship program on Monday. That’s a nice weekend off after working 5 years straight after med-school. What’s her fellowship in….?

Ready…?

Colo-Rectal Surgery! It’s a nice conversation piece, don’t you think? Anyways, we got back on Cape late and I’ve definitely been moving kind of slowly so far today. Well, better go clean, get some pieces finished and then maybe get the studio and this blog back on track. I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve gotten anything finished and the blog has been suffering because of it.

Oh, and yeah…the website isn’t ready. Well, it’s ready on my end but the webstore is still having some issues but I’m told Monday morning…of course I was told Friday afternoon yesterday morning.

…is a little strange. I threw a few pieces yesterday and it didn’t quite go as planned. The clay moved a tad differently than my normal clay and it definitely took some getting used to. Today I got a few pitchers and bottles made. I’ll shoot some pictures and write a little more later.

I’ve spent half of the day on tech support regarding a few computer issues. I thought that I had lost my database with everything from the shop this year….I was a little nervous about that. It’s resolved and luckily all is working again. I guess it’s time for a backup.

Time to help some customers in the shop…might be a little rude to keep typing!

More later…

It’s been a while since I’ve been in the studio making pots. After the firing I laid low and spent most of the time either in the gallery, photographing work or working on the website….most of the time it was all 3 at once. Today the gallery was closed and even though last night the weather called for rain it never showed and it was a gorgeous day. I took a true day off. I even made it out to play some tennis with my friend Brandon. I only spent about an hour working on the site. It is truly almost done. All of the pages are built I’m just waiting to make the shopping cart secure so that the webstore can handle credit card orders.

I think it looks good…I’ll still be cleaning it up and making small changes once it’s live but I’m ready to get it out there. I’ll put it up as soon as it is secure and let you all know about it here. I’d love to get some feedback and see if anyone comes across any problems. I won’t do the big announcement via email newsletter until I hammer out the rest of the small details and make sure there are no glaring errors.

Tomorrow it’s back to the studio. The photo setup is losing it’s place of privilege on the main table so that I’ll have somewhere to put some pots once they’re made. Hopefully, by mid-day the classic “fresh pots on a table” will be photographed and put up on the blog. I feel like I’m cheating on my pots but I’m going to spend a couple of days with earthernware starting tomorrow. It should be interesting.

I have a very large planter left over from last year that hasn’t made it into the kiln yet. It’s already been bisqued it just never got glazed. The planter should take up a good amount of space in my next reduction firing so I’ll able to make some pots for the kiln fairly quickly once I finish a little playing with low-fire.

I forgot to post this picture…it’s my favorite shot of photographing Randall Darwall’s scarves. It’s Kreeger Pottery’s new model….

Our sidewalk sale was a success yesterday.  Town was full of people, many with shopping bags….a good deal of them from Kreeger Pottery.  It was nice to see some people we haven’t seen in a while and it’s always nice to see new people come in and explore the shop.  Thanks to all who came.

Following up on Emily’s successful sale last weekend in Chicago we’ll be having a little sale here on Cape as well.  If you’ve signed up for our mailing list you should have gotten a little newsletter about it today.