A few more bowls… a few more colors, a few more stamps… and who doesn’t LOVE a good spiral?! Always food-safe & dishwasher-safe. Perfect for everyday use… just not guaranteed “gravity-safe”! A few more pieces that will show up in my “brand new” ETSY SHOP during the NORTHERN ILLINOIS POTTERY TOUR next weekend!

A little more stamping & soda-firing to “bowl” you over… little glimpses of some of the bowls that will be available during the NORTHERN ILLINOIS POTTERY TOUR. It’s this weekend on Friday, Saturday & Sunday… with twenty-one potters, free demos on ZOOM & even some free pottery giveaways!!!

Check out www.northernilpotterytour.com for more details… and be sure to follow The Tour on Instagram @northernilpotterytour

Apparently mulberries come in WHITE also?!
Not what we’re used to here in Chicago… but yummy I’m sure!
Thanks for sharing them in your stamped & soda-fired berry bowl @wirehanded … all the way out in Brooklyn, New York.

Okay, so I may have gotten a little reckless with the glazing of this berry bowl. The lime glaze did a bit of running & sealed up a few of the drainage holes. Sue me!

But I figure someone might still love it… especially when they realize it might make a nice stained glass window at the same time?! Double-duty pottery?

Who knows, I might be onto something here???

The sun is shining and it looks like great weather for Day Two of the HINSDALE FINE ARTS FESTIVAL. We’ll all be in Burlington Park in downtown Hinsdale from 10:00am-5:00pm. I’m restocking the shelves, so there will be plenty of pottery for everyone… including more berry bowls which look like they’re really having fun playing in the sun this morning. C’mon by… I’m in Booth #69 under a great shade tree where the cooling breezes are!

Apparently it’s MATZO MONDAY!!!
A little matzo ball soup in a handmade stamped bowl warming the day down in Florida!

While other friends are being a little “healthier” for breakfast this morning with this bright & colorful fruit salad in a “rustic” yellow bowl with a stamped rim & white slip stripes!

Last night during my SURFACE DECORATION class, we tackled carving through wheelthrown bowls to make “baskets”… with the goal of carving at least HALF of the bowl’s weight away! Tougher than it sounds. You kinda need a good plan from the start or you’ll lose some structural integrity. And then when it becomes delicate towards the end… you need to remember to NOT over-work or over-wet it… or it might just come tumbling down!

And then when it becomes delicate towards the end… you need to remember to NOT over-work or over-wet it… or it might just come tumbling down!

It’s another Thursday… so another SURFACE DECORATION class tonight. And this is getting to be a little bit of a “habit”… but I made a bunch of trimmed & leatherhard bowls for my students to carve through tonight. Can’t wait to see what kind of magic they create this evening! Not so bad for throwing these bowls late last night, huh?!

You’re the “Master of Water-Etching”… and I’m sure my students loved your demo! You went above & beyond with that splash of color… but I knew you would. Thanks for being the best sub teacher ever for my SURFACE DECORATIONS class last Thursday!