On the last Tuesday of October I took advantage of Canada Post's offer to ship one parcel free, within Canada, on a Tuesday in October. Actually my parcel weighed 12 lbs instead of the 11 lb limit but mailing five more pots to Jonathon's Gallery in London, Ontario cost me only $4! Jonathon had noticed that I had two new jugbirds in the recent…
Where did March go? A month ago we had a horrendous snowfall and now we're right into a glorious Spring. I planned to complete the making and slip-painting of any red earthenware pots I had on hand early in the month so that I could clean out my wheel and start making pieces for the TriCity Potters' soda firing, using grey Plainsman stoneware clay. But…
It's two weeks since the most recent Raid took place. Because Philippe used wax on bisque-fired plates I decided to re-fire everybody's work, including two Rhytons that Eric had painted, so that there would be no smudging of underglazes. Then, with my participation in the soda firing for much of last week, it was a minor miracle that I found time to glaze and fire…
How can we be so far into January? I had planned to get a kiln load of earthenware pieces, including some more plates for Raiders made by now. At this point I have some jugbirds and yunomis waiting to be painted and I've thrown and assembled two special Rhytons. The latter just need to dry now and the plan is for Eric to paint them…