One minute I am waking up

The next I am ready to pass out. I overslept this morning by 2 hours, not so bad considering I have/am the nicest boss in the world. I chastised myself lightly and got to work. Ro came and helped, we put handles and medallions on a bunch of Webster's mugs. Broke for lunch and came back to do some more. I was just getting ready to mix a glaze when Morgan called me, ready to purchase the new car, a bright red Paseo to replace the Neon he destroyed in an accident a month ago. So we went and took care of the paperwork. He's saved 1/2 the cost, We're financing the rest and I think he'll be getting some contributions from other family to help. He's done a good job saving for it and I'm proud of him. He's ecstatic to have his own wheels again. I just hope he continues to remember this is his senior year and school is his top priority.

After returning from the paperwork, we went back to the studio, mixed a glaze and got started on the glazing and loading. It is firing now. This kiln has the plates that were special ordered at the beginning of the faire season as well as some small plates and some other special orders. (Bob the Pirate..your other mug is in this kiln too!)
I finished up with the glazing around 11 and decided I didn't have it in me to throw anymore so I decided to wedge for tomorrow. These cat litter boxes contain the clay for 40 round mugs and 24 soup mugs all wedged and ready to go.

One of the 2lb balls I wedged didn't fit in the bucket so I quickly threw myself a new giant mug. This one is all mine and it'll probably hold about 35 oz when finished. BZZZZZZ caffeine!

The new storage shed

Today was work from morning to morning. Yes, that's right. I got up early to throw before Brian arrived from Erie to put up the shed. It's almost all up. only missing a roof. We'll have to pull down the basketball hoop before the roof goes on. It's in the way. Brian said he could come back next weekend to finish up.

Then around 4 I drove my friends to Lewistown to get the train to Lancaster, then came back to town for day one of "Gutter Trash" bowling league (175,174 and 163). THEN I came home and worked some more.

Now it is after midnight and I just want to compose this blog before passing out. I think this is enough. Check out the pictures of the shed. Brian did the work, I just held walls in place while he nailed things into place. It's going to take up a lot of the kiln pad, but we can rearrange in a way to make it work out. It will be nice to have a place to store all the stuff we normally pile into the yard and onto the concrete patio. The next shed will be one for the other concrete pad in front of the house, to be used as a sales building :)

A day off in disguise?

I didn't do too much today. I drove to the PA Renaissance Faire to drop off new work, which was desperately needed. It's about 2 hours away, so I loaded up this morning and headed out by noon. Unloaded and filled in the empty spaces on the tables. They are overflowing now :) I arrived home around 7:30 PM.

I did manage to take some quick pictures of the work as well as a few shots of the nearly empty tables at the faire.