Monday, May 31, 2010
Memorial Day
This is a video package that Gerry put together for Memorial Day. You can read the story here Kevin wrote a great piece! You can also view the video at youtube
My thoughts are with all of those families and soldiers connected to the military today. God be with each one of you!!
Saturday, May 29, 2010
NCMA
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Full bloom
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
and moving right along...........
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
New homes for my houses
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Sig and Stain
Gerry has been shooting Nascar all weekend and Wes has had band rehearsal so I got a lot done around here. Firing an 04 tomorrow, happy week everyone!
Friday, May 21, 2010
There's a lot going on around here!
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Why I Blog

XOXO
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Sleepy Creek


Nothing is new
A couple of posts ago I wrote about how turtles would probably be showing up all over the studio since Charlotte was putting them on hers and how a friend of mine described it as heightened awareness. I have never seen Vicki's blog, but our house forms are very similar. A house is a house, a bowl is a bowl, a turtle is a turtle....... It's funny how so many of us can take the same form and give it so many different lives. At first I was a little disappointed seeing these houses and realizing that I'm not so original and I know there are other potters that have used house forms, but I love making them and I just have to figure out how to make them my own. Just as every potter takes a bowl or a mug or a teapot and gives it their own signature. There really is nothing new is there!
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Best yet
I was thinking of where these houses are coming from, memories from my past that they represent, thinking about all the oxide washes and surface treatments I could use. And at that moment I finally felt like an artist, not struggling with my materials, but using them to express something inside me that I wanted to represent with clay. It felt really good! I used to have those feelings a lot as a child. I did some sort of art all the time. I painted, I constructed, I collaged anything that would be still, it just all had to get out somehow. I have been so busy learning this craft of clay that I forgot how it felt to just create because you had to. There is not enough time in the day to do all that I want to do with these houses, so I hope that my attention span will hang in there for just a bit longer so I can see where I can take this. I do miss my wheel and need to make some bowls, because I sold out, but I am preoccupied at the moment with structures so the bowls are going to have to wait!
I am planning on working all week with no interruptions, keep your fingers crossed for me!
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Warp, crack, pin hole, explode
Friday, May 14, 2010
Last Raku fire for my class
So, another Raku class comes to an end and I won't be teaching any this summer just working on more houses and barns to see where that goes. I have two more in the works right now that are taking me forever. One warped, so I need to slow down the drying and use more bracing. I think they may have to go smaller, the large ones are a beast, sigh....
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