It's been several weeks since I posted a new blog and now there are some items I want to mention. The speaker for the October meeting of TriCity Potters was Port Moody Arts Centre's Dan Severance. I think he spends every spare minute of his days, when he's not at his regular job in a printshop, working in the clay department. He is the go-to…
One of the things I really wanted to do during my brief holiday in England was to get to the Tower of London to see this year's installation of poppies there. They will commemorate one hundred years since the beginning of the First World War, with the last poppy being placed with over 888,000 others on November 11th 2014, Armistice Day. Each poppy represents a fallen…
On my recent flight to England my hand luggage was ten jugbirds. I had checked the size and weight allowed - 22lbs, and bought a cardboard box just under that size. Each was wrapped in newsprint and then small bubble-wrap. I made a handle out of duct tape with rope inside so it was easy to carry, and astonishingly the box weighed 14lbs! It fitted…
I have just returned from a lovely nine-day holiday in England. Of course I used the delivery of jugbirds to Primavera Gallery as the excuse for another trip across the pond, but I also wanted to spend time with some of my extended family over there. Luckily for me my brother Bill and his wife Lottie live in St. Neots, a short bus ride from…
Sitting in the shade on our North-facing patio on a perfect sunny Saturday morning, waiting for my glaze kiln to complete its overnight firing, I realize that it's been one busy week! But TriCity Potters, your tiles are in this firing so I plan to take them out of the kiln tomorrow. Here are some events in a potter's life from the past week. Last…