Catching up and Seconds Sale

I'm finally starting to feel like I'm getting caught up on the production. Not ahead by any stretch, but like I am not in danger of being understocked. The weather has been damp and the basement has been extra humid, so everything I make has been taking a long time to finish. Currently I have 48 mugs and 18 Soup mugs waiting for trimming and handles. Looks like tomorrow is going to be a long day pulling handles.

In other news Rowan has been absolutely wonderful in posting new things on Etsy, she just put up a bunch of the seconds from my glaze drip fiasco. I ground off all the drips and they all look amazing except for a few grinder marks on the bottom. You can see the Seconds in our Sale/Clearance section.

Lovely Day

It started out rainy and sad, but got beautiful for a while in the middle of the day and Ro and I took advantage of it to head out to Rothrock State Forest to see the Mountain Laurel in bloom. I took a few pictures, but really hers are the ones that show the glory..my camera is so decrepit now that I am lucky to get any images. It still does good sky, but everything else appears to glow with fairy light or have unnatural gloom around the edges...and that's the way it is for now..maybe in a few weeks I can justify a replacement, but right now Ro's camera is the moneymaker since she takes all the product pictures and mine is just for my own pleasure of documenting my life and work to share. I am sure she'll get around to posting some soon..look for them on facebook if you are her friend, in the meantime, here are some of mine. Also included are the pictures of the XL round mugs I put handles on this morning. The empty boxes from all the wedging I have done in the last 2 days and a board full of regular tankard mugs that I just finished up before midnight.

Dry enough!

I got onto the trimming, handles and goblet assembling early today, I just now finished up the last handle, there are still some medallions to add to the big tankards but everything is mostly finished. While I was working on that Ro was sorting through the pottery and picking new pieces for Etsy and taking a lot of pictures. It was quite a day. I think I'll be taking a little break, then starting again this evening with some wedging and throwing of some bigger round mugs and tankards, then tomorrow moving back into the smaller round mugs. We're in the Father's day season and special orders are starting to roll in. Luckily if I get them started in the next couple days it shouldn't be a problem to complete them and have them in Dad's hands by the big day.