Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
A Chicago potter’s somewhat slanted view of clay & play
Categories: family, flowers, garden

This Fall my cousin Kim came over & we planted a LOT of new plants in my front garden. This is my first time trying hellebores & I’m kind of excited to see them flowering at the end of Winter. But I just saw these cuties this morning. Are they going to bloom too soon?… or are they just getting ready to impress me in very Early Spring?! Novice gardeners want to know!!!

Categories: flowers, mugs

Sometimes a mug doesn’t need coffee or tea… they work pretty darn good as a vase too!!! I’ve already replenished the shelves and will have over 100 mug/vases for this weekend’s SECOND HOLIDAY HOME SHOW!!! Kinda the perfect gift… whether it’s for coffee, tea or flowers?!!!

Categories: flowers, soda-fired, vases

So Taylor & her Mom came to my HOLIDAY HOME SHOW and purchased one of my square vases… with a different “picture” on each side. Looks like it made a beautiful floral showing on their Thanksgiving dinner table. Thanks for sharing your family holiday with all of us! It looks great.

Categories: flowers, soda-fired, stamped, vases

A new oval basket with textured panels & double handles that help hold the flowers where you want them! Ready to make their “big debut” this weekend at my HOLIDAY HOME SHOW… with a limited quantity, so come early!!!

Categories: flowers, hybrid mugs, mugs, soda-fired

For those of us that don’t drink coffee or tea… sometimes a fun hybrid mug makes a beautiful vase for flowers! And even if you do drink hot beverages… you can still use a mug for flowers too!!! Just think of it as a vase with a handle!!!

Categories: flowers, soda-fired, vases

Perhaps it’s Mini Monday?!… with a mini vase & mini green mums!!!

Categories: flowers

These two might be the last of the dahlias in my garden…
but my fingers are crossed for one or two more
if we don’t get a hard frost any time soon?!

Categories: flowers, garden

As I was cleaning out the garden today, I chopped down the old summer growth from my favorite globe thistle plant. But as I was cutting it down… I found all of this new growth inside… and a NEW FLOWER!!! I just couldn’t… so it’s still there living its best life!!!

Categories: flowers, garden

It’s another Floral Friday! And I’m still loving the dahlias currently blooming in my garden. They took their own sweet time growing with no blooms… but the flowers are finally here. And it was worth the wait!!! Now I just hope we don’t get a “hard frost” any time soon so I might be lucky enough to get a few more flowers this year

Categories: flowers, The Ghouls Collection

With the beautiful Fall weather we’ve been having, it isn’t quite “spooky-scary-Halloweeny” enough yet?! So it seems oddly perfect that Beetlejuice is hosting some beautiful purple statice flowers… at least until the “creepy” season gets here?! Thanks for sharing Emily!!!