Elaine Brewer-White was our guest speaker for the first indoor, in-person meeting of TriCity Potters in two years! Because PoMoArts is using all available rooms to provide not-crowded classes, Fridays are the only week-day when a meeting room is available, at least for the time being. We'll try to reserve a room for Wednesdays again, starting in the Fall. But, at last, Dr. Bonnie gave…
It took most of January to get my kiln filled. My second successful cataract operation was two weeks ago today and I'm delighted that my two eyes now see the same colours, distant vision is great and in a couple more weeks I'll get a prescription for near vision. Al and I popped in to Vancouver one day when the pervasive fog had lifted and…
My website has been totally refreshed. Avrom Digance of Web242 https://web242.com designed my first site many years ago and, although we still like the style, he showed me that it was in a narrow, old-style format. Links to the portfolio weren't working any more and I wasn't able to read my blogs from years ago. So now Avrom and his team have moved the…
This evening's blog will be a photo gallery of my final pots of 2021. After I retrieved four pots from the Fraser Valley Potters' Guild holiday firing I fired the remaining teeny plates in my electric kiln.When Marianne came by my studio to pick up her now-four-times-fired Grooved Vase she found that I had finished some more of the jolly teeny plates she'd ordered for…
This was the day to make a final delivery of pots to Circle Craft to top up my stock there before Christmas. I had a drop-off appointment for 2.30pm. We woke to two inches of wet snow and I don't relish driving in that, but it was melting and I risked it. It was sleeting when I stopped off at the Western Front to deliver…