My niece Tasha is a Statistics Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, too far away! Recently when one of her friends mentioned how much fun she is having in beginner pottery classes, Tash told her that her aunt is a potter and somehow four firm friends plotted to leave their husbands and children and fly to Vancouver for a four-day holiday! What a…
Last Friday evening three of us TriCity Potters, Linda, Ysabella and I drove over to Shadbolt Centre for another clay-related lecture. Jack Troy and Carolanne Currier of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania had spent the previous days leading firings of the wood and soda kilns respectively. All the participants were excitedly anticipating opening of those kilns the next day. But while they waited Jack Troy had…
Today's photography session didn't take long as there were only ten new jugbirds and two 'Raider' plates. Most of the birds have been made before but I like to post the photos so that I can keep a record of what I made and when. Thanks Alan. I had two new oval plate forms in the bisque…
Back in the early seventies Alan and I bought our first and only jade plant from the window of a Chinese restaurant in Vancouver. Believe it or not we still have said plant and several of its offspring. Every year I take them outside for the summer so that they can enjoy shade, fresh air and some attention. They survive the winter grudgingly on a…
Yesterday was a good day to catch up on some studio chores, as the kiln was completing a bisque firing and the rain poured down. First on my list was the weighing of ingredients for my cone 04 clear glaze, then adding water, and mixing and sieving them. I left the bucket for a while and turned to mixing plaster. You'll see that I do take the precaution of wearing…