It's four years since I last flew across the Atlantic so I've planned a brief solo trip, starting next week. I have oodles of exciting plans, which include galleries, studios, trains and most importantly, family, in London, Cambridge and Salisbury. Earlier this year Jeremy Waller, owner of Primavera Gallery in Cambridge, emailed to ask if I planned a trip over with more jugbirds soon. Since August…
On Sunday the glaze kiln was cool enough to be opened. The jugbirds I've been working on are now finished and I have a week to get them carefully wrapped so that I can take them to England with me. Meanwhile the ever-patient 'Raiders', Monique and Renée will now be able to see how their plates turned out. my flock Renée left two small triangular…
When we returned from our week-long stay in cabins at Rathtrevor Beach I had a kiln load of bisqued pots to glaze. There were some pieces made by visiting family members but mainly some plates and jugbirds that I'd made in July. I'm working slowly on these hot, smoky days but finally I took the pots out of the kiln last week. There are fun…
June has certainly been eventful and actually productive! With a significant birthday to start the month, TriCity Potters here for our June meeting/potluck, the making of pots for soda, last weekend's very successful SHUFFLE and now the opening of the soda kiln this week, I have enjoyed myself. This will be a brief blog, just to record my small collection of pots from the Vault…
A dozen jugbirds were ready for their glaze firing recently and work made by family members justified getting that done. Guests from Washington State were able to pick up their chosen Puffin jugbird on their way through here, en route to Calgary. I mailed a crested Kingfisher to another Washington State friend, just in time for his wife on Mothers' Day. I plan to save…