Made a leaf bowl last night and flipped it out tonight. It's so cool looking. It also has mini leaf feat.




Jessica Putnam Phillips inspired me to make spoon rests tonight. These will make great holiday gifts.




I'm especially pleased with this one. I was outdid this evening while we broke in the gas grill and realized how amazing citronella leaves are.




Speaking of the garden - late season monarch.

I was home from the workshop less than 24 hours last weekend before I flew to Atlanta for work. It was a great two days getting to meet people, but by the time I got home Tuesday night I was wiped. Wednesday I went to bed at like 730 and then Thursday we had to go to the grocery store because there was no food to eat. Finally got back to making some things on Friday.While I was in Atlanta I started on a new sweater. I had all the pieces together and ended up sewing the body and the front together on the plane. If I hadn't been upgraded to first class, there is no way I would have had the room. People probably thought I was nuts. But I needed to get it together to start on the collar. Collar is done now, just need to add the sleeves and see on the pockets.




Spend a little bit of time checking on the pieces from the workshop. Most were dry and are ready for bisque. I put underglaze in my name keepsake mug. I also setup a couple of tiles and my last mug to do water etching on.




This week was the first week I got to deliver mugs to my coworkers and they were a huge hit. I came home with a keg of more to make so I got to making. I made more than were requested assuming that I'd end up needing a few extras. Tonight I cleaned them up and carved in the mountains.

This morning we had a bonus raku firing of the pots we made day 1. Watching the Clayscapes crew raku was amazing. They were masterful and didn't drop anything.


My two pumpkins in the back. The red and all white ones.




Bottom right is my pot with the flowers on it.




I did not make the snow man (Denise Desmond did). How adorable is that snow man?!




Not the best lighting,  but here are my 4 finished and scrubbed pots.



















Also I am happy to report that all of my wet pieces made it home in one piece! Even the plate and the tall composite vase.

Today was our last official day of the pottery workshop. I'm not going to lie, I'm exhausted. I've learned so much. Can't wait to go home and start to apply things. Also made some new pottery friends that I'm excited to continue to learn from and keep in touch with.

Our bisque ware just out of the kiln.




My finished composite piece




Finished tile quilt. Top left - slip trailing. Top right - stencil and scrafito. Bottom left - stencil. Bottom right - water resist.




Tomorrow we finish up with a raku party firing a few pieces.

Today started with a composite vase demo. A composite vase is made of multiple sections that are darted to fit together. This seemed insanely complicated, but once Jessica explained how it was actually much simpler than I imagined.




I'm happy with this as my first try. Still needs a handle I think. I need to refine it a bit more.

We also worked on our surface decoration of the pieces we've been making all week. Still working on that. More pictures later.




In the afternoon we went to the Everson Museum and saw their ceramics collection. They have one of the most famous pieces in the world - the Scarab.




Some of my other favorite pieces.

Today we started with making plates go decorate. Then the rest of the day was about decoration. This really started to get past my comfort zone of what I usually do.




This little tray has a number of sprigs. I'm thinking I need to buy some white gold over glaze to embellish them. Around the tray are a number of tiles I started setting up for tomorrow.




Started decorating the tiles we made yesterday. This mandala is going to combine water etching, mashima, scrafito, and slip trailing.




This plate has handles and some sprigs not sure what else I'm going to do to it




Bottom of the tray with stamps in the foot