After I shared my stories, photos & videos of “the wreckage”…
we finally got down for some SURFACE DECORATION last night with textural stamping.
I did a few demos… and it felt great to not think about my car for a couple hours!

After yesterday’s trial’s & tribulations, I had a little “escape” when I got to do a little stamping with my SURFACE DECORATION class last night.

Of course I had to ride my bike to get there!!!

Last night in my SURFACE DECORATION class, I showed my students some fun wheelthrowing “tricks” to make textured pots on the wheel. Of course I had to introduce some of them to my collection of handrollers from MKM Pottery Tools! Pressing them into fresh clay & then bulging them out to shape the newly textured pot!!!

Just a couple mugs after last night’s class. It’s only their second week of the session…
and a couple of them already have mugs! Me too… with a couple demo pieces!!!

You gotta love when you go to start teaching class… and you find a surprise gift on your Teacher Shelf! A crazy cool flavor combination from a foreign land! I have the best students… thanks so much Monse!

And a huge THANK YOU to my amazing THROWDOWN class…
who got me this fantastic tie-dyed t-shirt as a “Thank You Gift.”

Well, actually they made it… with Monse designing the logo!
It says “Welcome To The Throwdown : Kiln or Be Kilned.” With a nod to my love of tie-dye, reality TV show “The Traitors”… and even some stamping around the tureen image! Monse even pulled one of my own favorite stamp patterns to create the design!!!

This class never ceased to amaze me… THANK YOU ALL!!!

And the nominees are…

After ten weeks of LILLSTREET THROWDOWN races, challenges, competitions & projects… they were all WINNERS in the end. We all had such a great time as points were accumulated all season long. And that journey definitely deserved RIBBONS FOR EVERYONE!!!

We had some great competitors, but in the end it was Katie in third place, Ruth in second place … and Sara as the BIG WINNER of Season Eight!!! Congrats to everyone for making this class so much fun… and more importantly, for entertaining ME every step of the way!!!

And a huge THANK YOU to my amazing THROWDOWN class… who got me this fantastic tie-dyed t-shirt as a “Thank You Gift.” Well, actually they made it… with Monse designing the logo! It says “Welcome To The Throwdown : Kiln or Be Kilned.”

With a nod to my love of tie-dye, reality TV show “The Traitors”… and even some stamping around the tureen image! Monse even pulled one of my own favorite stamp patterns to create the design!!! This class never ceased to amaze me… THANK YOU ALL!!!

So last Thursday was the final night of our LILLSTREET THROWDOWN. And if you recall, their final projects were all themed off of Academy Award BEST PICTURE winners across the years. Timely, right?! And you know how I love a good theme… so we had a little “movie night” fun in class!!! And one of my students Taylor volunteered to bring all of the movie trailers to watch before revealing each final project. So much fun!!! Especially when Taylor went one step further… with a soliloquy of her own about her set based on “Hamlet.”

Last night in class with my Beginners, we did a fun “white elephant” trading-stealing-exchanging game with handmade mugs!!! I put in a stamped & soda-fired mug… and came home with Michael’s cool striped black mug… made with thin lines of tape as the “resist” for the glazing process to make sleek stripes!!! Nicely done Michael.