Well I hoped I could save it, but no such luck. This globe has given me a headache since the start. When it was still wet, I thought I had solved it - but then in bisque is slumped a bit. When I was glazing it, I could hear things shifting a bit. I hoped that the glaze would glue it together, but it slumped some more. It looks like the walls of the kiln are holding it in the back and that the vase next to it is holding it on the side. Hoping there isn't too much damage, but waiting until it's really cool to try to move stuff.

The little tray on the right is pretty awesome! I tried running hot chowder from spectrum for the first time adn am not disappointed.

This is the first kiln in a while! I've bene traveling so much for work that I haven't had the time to do much pottery. I really need to travel less!

This kiln has some fun stuff in it. My vase turned luminary is so very awesome! I think I need to make more of these. I also really like how the travel mug turned out. The fishy plats are better than they were in my head!

I'm not sure about the garlic plates. I like how they look, but I'm not sure if they will actually grate garlic. Really annoyed that both of my trees plates had random spots on them. I added more glaze and put them right back in the kiln and hopefully the spots go away.

Laguna 60 Mayco black ug wiped back Mayco Hot Tamale, Jack o Lantern, Sunkissed, Just Froggy, Fruit of the vine as water colors 2167 clear Kentucky Mudworks Hydra just on the top	Laguna 60 Mayco black ug wiped back Mayco Hot Tamale, Jack o Lantern, Sunkissed, Just Froggy, Fruit of the vine as water colors 2167 clear
Laguna 60 Mayco black ug wiped back Mayco Hot Tamale, Jack o Lantern, Sunkissed, Just Froggy, Fruit of the vine as water colors 2167 clear Mayco Root Bear x2 Amaco Sky inside x2	Laguna 60 Mayco black ug wiped back Mayco Hot Tamale, Jack o Lantern, Sunkissed, Just Froggy, Fruit of the vine as water colors 2167 clear Kentucky Mudworks Hydra just on the top
Kentucky Mudworks Bogeyman x3 - ran a little	Opulence Sea Spray x3 Pebble Beach x2
Colors for Earth Bright Violet Laurel Green 2167 Clear Mayco Lavender Mist x3	Colors for Earth Bright Violet Laurel Green 2167 Clear Mayco Lavender Mist x3
Mayco Tuxedo x2 Mayco Frosted Lemon x2	Amaco Deep Sea x3 Snow x2
Laguna 60 Amaco Deep Sea x3	Colors for Earth Bright Violet Laurel Green 2167 Clear Mayco Lavender Mist x3
Colors for Earth Bright Violet Laurel Green 2167 Clear Mayco Lavender Mist x3	Laguna 60 Midnight Ceramics Sexy Mermaid x3
Top Left: Mayco Dusty Rose ug Amaco Cherry Blossom x3 Top Right: Mayco Kings Blue ug Amaco Sky x3 Bottom: Amaco Emerald Falls x3	Mayco Norse Blue x3, Sandstone x3, Light Flux Sweeps
Georgie's Indigo wiped back Zinc Free Clear	Georgie's Cherry Fizz x2
Amaco Smoke x3	Stupid spots! I think its Amaco Snow
Georgie's Cherry Fizz x2 Mayco Light Flux

I have been travelling a bunch for work lately. I managed to get glazing done this weekend, but had to leave again before the kiln was cool enough to unload. Some fun stuff at the top. A few new vases, including two extruded ones. There was a third that was too tallby like a millimeter.

Will open this weekeend when I'm back home. In the meantime I have updated all of the images from 2023 and started on 2022. Such a tedious process.

Can you tell I've been in a creative place recently? I've been playing with a bunch of new ideas and designs. I think it's because I've been so stuck at work. I need the creative to come out somewhere.

I made a few size fish templates probably over a year ago and they didn't didn't work in practice because the fin was too long. All of a sudden I had the idea to perform surgery on the tail. I think it makes for a really cute little fish plate.




Here you can see the surgery I did on the tail. My brain is buzzing around other animals I might be able to do this with.

Made some garlic plates. I was at a show last year where the woman across from was also pottery, but very different. Her pottery was mostly hanging plates, iPad stands, and other large items not really for food. She did have a basket of garlic plates that were selling like crazy. I had mental note to make a few to see whether or not they would be popular for me.

I made 4 test plates and tried out different Diamond Core carving tools on them.


My favorite ended up being the FP6.

I had the cone tops from the candle holders and something told me not to squish them. Initially I was thinking I'd widen the hole and make them tapered candle holders. Then it hit me - tiny ring dishes. I added little flowers on top. Dependning on the shrinkage I might also be able to say tea light candle holders. They're so cute though!