Letting things “roll” with my carved handrollers from MKM Pottery Tools!

So the new postcards are here… the dates are set… and now I gotta get my act together to make a bunch of new pieces for this special gallery show! Including another “collaboration” project with the other artists… each of the four of us making four pieces each to come together at the show!!!

4×4… make sense now?

Always ready for another holiday…
especially when today is NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CAKE DAY!!!

And I’m sure it’s no surprise… I’m really here just for the FROSTING!!!

Back by popular demand… tonight in my Intermediate Wheel class, we did a stamp-making demo again! And made some fun stamps along the way. Now they just need to dry & be bisqued before we can start to use them!

Last week in our Lillstreet Throwdown class, Stephanie returned to class after spending some vacation time in Taiwan! Sounds like it was a great trip… and oh, but wait there’s more… she brought back OREOs from Taiwan!!! Crispy little tubes not-quite-filled with OREO cream. Thanks Steph!

After years of driving past this beautiful old dilapidated barn on Route 55, it has finally happened. We’ve all been waiting… and waiting… and the weathered cupola has FINALLY slid off the roof of the barn. Gone, but not forgotten.

Looks like Matthew has been busy in the kitchen making a beautiful batch of cinnamon rolls! They look amazing… especially on that green stamped plate! Thanks for the photo Matthew!

One question though… where’s the frosting???

Continuing our “game” theme… my Lillstreet Throwdown students continued by choosing a shape from the SQUID GAME logo… just a quick choice… unaware that they then would later be tasked with building a three-dimensional version! A tough challenge to make 6-inch tall piece in just 60 minutes… especially with some students having very limited handbuilding experience!

Turns out most of them chose the triangle… which meant a pyramid! Only three chose the square… which meant a cube. And no one chose the circle which would have meant a sphere! Some of them got a bit too wrapped-up in the geometry of a pyramid… HA!!!… but in the end, they all did great & had a fun time!!!

And maybe learned a little sumthin’-sumthin’ along the way?!

This week in my Lillstreet Throwdown class, I decided to kick it off with a rousing game of JENGA. With each person taking a turn to “make it taller, without making it flop.” Whoops Sara!!!

And then we followed that up with “Clay Jenga” on the wheel. With two people competing against each other… each doing one pull to make their “shared” thrown cylinder taller. Each person taking a turn to “make it taller, without making it flop.” It had to rise at least 1/4” per person, per turn… and not flop. The last one to do a successful pull won that round & moved on in our class brackets… until we had that one final winner!!!

My latest production round was a group of “rounds”… the top part of ikebana vases coming together. Stepping it up so that I’m ready when the Spring flowers start popping up… just some positive thinking… or, wishful thinking!!!