by Sue | Oct 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
I unloaded the kiln last night and was very pleased with some of the results. It’s always a mystery which pieces will turn out as I’d hoped and I’m sometimes disappointed. This opening, I was please with nearly everything and very excited about a new design I’ve been...
by Sue | Oct 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I attended a workshop presented by Sarah McCarthy at the Jacksonville Center for the Arts in Floyd, Virginia. The workshop focused on texturing wheel thrown pottery, but we also spent some time discussing hand built and slab pieces...
by Sue | Sep 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
It’s been a bit since my last entry. That’s because my husband and I have been on a little working vacation. We just got back from trip to visit the oldest of our kids and her family in Virginia. While we were there, we spent a bunch of time in the...
by Sue | Jul 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
At the risk of offending any pottery purists out there reading this, I’d like to say, I am grateful for the power tools in my life to make things like drilling holes so much easier. Each berry bowl I make has about 70 holes in it and that would take a really...
by Sue | Jun 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
Ok, I’m not really sure what constitutes an Ode, nor am I really aware of how one is written. But what I am sure of is, I could never do the sales away from home without my hardworking roadie. Pottery is really heavy to cart around and a hardworking roadie is a...