Update

Well my friends it's been a serious last few weeks. I've found myself rushed and harried, nothing quite working the way I expected it to. My last entry was about not staying up all night to work. It was a good decision. Those mugs I wanted to put handles on are still under plastic.

I was trying to get everything in the bisque kiln before we left for a surprise 50th birthday party for Rowan's best friend Mari. I think in retrospect I should have stayed home, but I wanted to be there too. We made it there OK, it was sweet and wonderful and she appreciated us being there. We did get to spend the night in a lovely beach house on LBI and had about 20 minutes on the beach before we left for home.

We came home on Sunday in time for me to make the final week of bowling and participate in the pizza and beer party that comes with it. I came home and didn't rush down to put handles on mugs because I found out that Jessa was coming home from FL and I could get two totes of mugs from her. So I glazed instead. Now the glaze kilns are both in process and I managed to sleep. We'll be ready for Ice Dragon this weekend in Buffalo.

Last night Ro and I went to a book reading at Webster's for Godmother written by Carolyn Turgeon, a beautiful, talented woman I went to high school with.. I'm proud of her success. I've realized that a lot of my friends are successful, they were all such individuals and non conformists in HS, but they've turned out to be doing some very interesting things, many of them self employed, nearly all of them making life a better place in different ways.

Tonight I am going to see Watchmen with a friend. A well deserved evening of relaxation. Tomorrow I'll deal with handles, pricing and packing.

Too much in one night

Sometimes I push too hard.

We're leaving in the morning for NJ and I am frantically trying to get the work done so it can be in the kiln in the morning. We got one kiln loaded. Ro helped until 2AM and I took a little break..she was worried about getting everything done in the morning and still being awake for the drive. That's when it hit me that this was a wish list..I wanted to be done with the bisque so we could simply glaze next week and be done.. but we can squeeze another bisque in to the beginning of the week and still get it all done..

so I just wrapped up all the trimmed pots so I can deal with them Sunday night after I get back.

we'll fire a glaze monday and a bisque monday..another glaze wednesday..we'll get enough done. Maybe even a partial on Thursday..it'll cool quick enough to be out by the time we have to leave Friday evening.

I'm going to bed.. have a lot to do tomorrow and I don't need to stay up all night to finish these mugs.

Mistakes

Every now and then I screw things up in the studio.. here are a few examples of my head-knocking, stupid mistakes :)

It's really hard to see, but in the top picture, there is a fleck of white marring the surface. That fleck of white is kiln wash, it fell onto the surface of the flate when I was loading and melted into the mix..except it's white and it's a solid bump. It ruins the piece for me.. it's like having a pimple on your nose. UGH.

In the next one I have far too much glaze applied. The glaze surface actually has bubbles that cooled before the glaze settled down..it's ugly..anf ruined an otherwise cool piece. UGH!