A Better Day

I can't say I got a lot of work done today, but it was steady. I took some time today to trim up pieces I had in progress, assemble a Teapot, wedged 50 lbs of clay for goblets and eventually did a little cleanup. I have a massive pile of clayboxes and bags piling up. I also added some more pieces to a bisc kiln that Ro started to load yesterday. Ultimately I feel pretty good about the days work.

I am hoping I feel tired again soon because I am substituting for Randy at TCO in the morning. There are a lot of students..I always feel uncomfortable with a full class, especially of beginners, they take so much more individual attention. Randy says they are doing very well and to teach them trimming and so I will :) After teaching I plan on coming home and getting to those goblets and butterkeepers and maybe mixing up a glaze or two,

Always a lot on the list. I still need that apprentice..anyone good for about 10 hours a week? No pay, but I'll teach you how do do this on 3000 pot a year level,

Low Energy

No real pictures of today's work, so here is an old one of what I hope to accomplish tomorrow.

Today was a low energy kind of day for me. I had a few pinched nerve type physical problems pop up for me while I was just starting to work today and it kind of drained me for the whole day. I made a couple more largish platters, a ginormous T pot and a few bowls, but essentially I couldn't really get into the groove and get started. I'll try to get good rest tonight and start fresh in the morning. I want to do more of the travel type mugs, goblets and butter keepers tomorrow..perhaps rice bowls too. We will see :)

After I had dinner with Ro I tried to go back, but succeeded in only trimming a few things and making a couple of leaf and acorn sprig molds to make future decoration easier. Ro unloaded and rinsed off the biscware. and did a little organization. It seems she also has a pinched nerve in her neck somewhere so she couldn't do a lot either. I need to get back to the Chiropractor asap.

It looks like despite our best intentions Jessa is not going to make it to the Cloister's event this year, but she is still planning on Vegas, so I am going to send a selection of work with her, probably a basic selection..goblets, tankards, mugs and bowls and see how it goes. I hope well.

We have the Way Fruit Farm event coming up on the 12th and I want to be sure we are well stocked for it, as well as making sure PARF has an adequate selection. October is always our boom month at PARF and it would be a bad move on our part to neglect keeping it well stocked to overflowing.

A Moment to Plan

This morning I am sitting at the "50's and Fabulous" event sponsored by Forever Broadcasting. I'm here passing out informational brochures and recruiting volunteers for The Creative Oasis. So far it has been pretty quiet. There are a few of the vendors wandering around, but no one else is here yet. I am sure at some point there will be an influx. Conveniently, the place has WiFi so I have been able to read my morning news consisting of about 100 different pottery blogs I follow, update Facebook and have my coffee. Thankfully I stopped at Sheetz, because there is no coffee to be found here..and I was not in any condition to be without caffeine this morning.

I finished up a series of tankards last night as well as a series of a new style of mug for me people have been calling 'the afternoon coffee mug' which other people call 'the Fran mug' and I was considering my open-face 'travel mug' no lid, but it'll fit nicely into the cup holders in cars. People have been very enthusiastic to get them. I may need to throw more tonight to meet the pre-sold demand.

So here's my throwing plan:

2 ginormous pasta Serving bowls
6 Pasta Bowls
2 Lg Pitchers
1 Sm Pitcher
10 Large Bowls
2 Crocks
10 Sugar Bowls
10 Creamers
10 Large T Pots
10 Butter Keepers
100 Mugs for Webster's
20 Goblets

The work is progressing nicely. I have a kiln full of cereal bowls, tumblers and wee bowls now. By tomorrow night I'll have another load of mugs and bowls to go in. Looks like I'll be tied to the studio all weekend, but there's a lot of beautiful work coming out so it's worth every minute of the beautiful fall sunshine I've missed so far.