After the busy Friday evening of Shuffle in Port Moody I was pleased to relax over the weekend. Friends dropped by on both days to see my display before I cleared up the space for it to become a studio again.
But on Monday morning I packed ten good jugbirds into a wine box and trundled out to Vancouver Airport. Several weeks ago the manager of Crafthouse YVR had asked me to bring ten more jugbirds in and I’d asked for her patience! In truth it takes me a good four weeks, in my current way of working, to complete the making, painting and firing of that many jugbirds. I was pleased to be able to show them to my guests last Friday as it would seem that I am known as the bird lady. So folks can order a special bird if they like, but know that I don’t have a huge pile of them on hand. Any I have are delivered to my galleries straight away.
One day soon I’ll take the two remaining jugbirds and some soda pieces in to Circle Craft on Granville Island.
Alan and I are plotting a European holiday after the Summer so I plan to begin making English bird jugs for Primavera in Cambridge. That’s my next project. I had thought I’d start on some new stoneware pieces but efforts to register for upcoming soda firings at Shadbolt today proved fruitless. They are victims of their own success. Wood and Soda firings fill up almost before they’re advertised. But I am assured that TriCity potters will be able to have a firing just for us, next April.
If there are kindly souls out there who would entertain including half a dozen pieces by me in a Summer or Fall soda or salt firing you’d make this old lady very happy!
Meanwhile I hope my readers will enjoy seeing photos of my Crafthouse YVR selection. If you’d like one of these pop out to Domestic Departures to buy one, or tell me which ones to make next.
