One day last week I was interviewed by Paul Blais of 'The Potters' Cast'. The podcasts are intended for pottery enthusiasts to listen to as they work in their studios. I usually listen to the radio (I know, rather old-fashioned) but if I have my iPad or MacBook with me in the studio I can click on the link and hear about others potters' journeys.…
Here are the other jugbirds that were fired in August. I've taken the Flicker, RB Sapsucker, little Blue jb and the taller dark grey one to Circle Craft, with the promise that I'll get more to them soon! Then a staff member asked if I plan on making some more salty ones. Oh dear, now I'll feel guilty taking my trip to England…
Opening the kiln the other day was, as usual, rather exciting. Not only did it contain the tiles painted by TriCity Potters but there were a dozen of my jugbirds in it too. The freshly mixed glaze behaved properly. I set the end 'soak' for 30 mins this time to try to make sure there were no bubbles from the melting, and no, there weren't.…
Sitting in the shade on our North-facing patio on a perfect sunny Saturday morning, waiting for my glaze kiln to complete its overnight firing, I realize that it's been one busy week! But TriCity Potters, your tiles are in this firing so I plan to take them out of the kiln tomorrow. Here are some events in a potter's life from the past week. Last…
People who toured gardens in the Port Moody Art in the Garden event recently were invited to enter up to three photos in a competition. I had taken photos of the pottery and plants in my garden and then lots more of other gardens on the Sunday. You saw those in Picasa albums in my blogs. I wound up choosing to submit three photos of flowers…