A fun mural in a side alley…
layers of colorful characters peeking, peering & smirking back at’cha!!!

Well, it’s Day Three of the NORTHERN ILLINOIS POTTERY TOUR… the final day… and there’s still plenty of time to curb your pottery addiction! Twenty-one ceramic artists with a wide range of styles, techniques & aesthetics. You can find them all through the Pottery Tour website… www.northernilpotterytour.com

And if you want to add some of my stamped & textured pottery to your collection, you can always go directly to my new ETSY SHOP… www.etsy.com/shop/firewhenreadypottery

So today is the final day of the NORTHERN ILLINOIS POTTERY TOUR. We’ve had a great weekend with 21 potters, studio demos & lots of pottery for everyone! Don’t forget that you can still check-out all of the potters on the Pottery Tour website… and my brand new ETSY SHOP is always open with perfect gift ideas for yourself & all of the other pottery lovers in your life! Giddy-up!!!… www.etsy.com/shop/firewhenreadypottery

Another quiet morning along the lake. Pedaling along enjoying the colored clouds floating along the horizon as the orange sun finally made its way through! Possibly for the last time today as more clouds were moving in to take over the day!

The heavy dark morning clouds moved out… and were replaced by blue skies & fluffy white clouds! How could I NOT go outside for another afternoon bike ride?!

It’s Day Two of the NORTHERN ILLINOIS POTTERY TOUR… plenty of time to check-out all of the potters & today’s free demos on ZOOM. And don’t forget that my brand new ETSY SHOP is now open with lots of stamped pottery for everyone. Pottery make perfect gifts for friends, family & especially yourself!!! – www.etsy.com/shop/firewhenreadypottery

Not so glorious, not so glamorous… but cloudy at the beginning, and cloudy at the end. With gusts of wind from every direction. It was tough to tell if it was a tailwind, a headwind or some crazy side-wind swirling around you! Still the best way to start my day!

As if a fun Stamping Demo on ZOOM weren’t enough… one of my ZOOM participants left with “a lovely parting gift.” I decided it would be fun to giveaway a mug to one of the people who “suffered” through with me to the end! So they picked a number between one and one hundred. The closest one to my favorite number WON A FREE MUG… stamped & soda-fired!!! Thanks for playing!!!

As part of tonight’s Stamping Demo on ZOOM, I demonstrated on four different bowls adding a bit of texture & pattern to each of them. Here are the four demo bowls… followed by a few details shots, as well as pictures of the stamps that worked their magic!

Bowl #1 –

Bowl #2 –

Bowl #3 –

Bowl #4 –

Tonight I did my stamping demo on ZOOM as part of the NORTHERN ILLINOIS POTTERY TOUR. We had a great time, answered a lot of questions, covered a lot of topics and stamped a couple bowls along the way! We thought it would be maybe 20 minutes… turned out a bit longer… almost a full hour longer!!! Like I said, we covered a LOT!!!

As part of the Pottery Tour, they’re hosting free demos by several of the Potters… all you need to do is register for free on the website! More of demos tomorrow – www.northernilpotterytour.com