Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
A Chicago potter’s somewhat slanted view of clay & play
Categories: food, stamps, tools

Looks like Santa came a little early?!
And now it’s time to make some Christmas cookies!!!

Beautiful texture stamps to press into your dough before baking… and you know how much I love stamping!!! Thanks to the folks at FUN FOOD TOOLS.

Check ‘em out at www.funfoodtools.com… plus, they’re currently running a Holiday Sale!!!

Categories: food

Looks like Matthew & Kristy are kicking off the first December night with a beautiful cranberry martini… along with one of my little shot glasses. Great colors, great composition. But it’s really the gleam of light in the martin glass shadow that I’m totally diggin’!!!

Categories: food, platters

And now that we’re all snow-covered…
I thought it might be appropriate to bring white-covered OREOs
as a snack for my co-workers today!

Categories: bowls, food, soda-fired, stamped

Not only did I leave Thanksgiving with a bunch of leftovers… but I got a bunch of homegrown eggs as well. Their backyard chickens are still working hard producing eggs. Thanks Kelly for sending some home with me!

Categories: food, holiday

But I wish I had leftovers of this too!!! Looks like Rosene baked a beautiful pumpkin pie in one of my stamped pie plates for their Thanksgiving celebration. Thanks for sharing… even if it is just a photo, and not a piece of pie!!!

Categories: food, holiday, platters

Possibly the best part of Thanksgiving… the LEFTOVERS!!!
Thank you Kelly for packing up two full meals worth of leftovers
before I left the party on Thursday!

Categories: bowls, food, holiday

I wasn’t invited to this Thanksgiving dinner… but it sure looks like my pottery sure was!!! Always fun to see some of my handiwork gracing the tables of so many celebrations! And remember… food always tastes better in handmade pottery! Thanks for the photos Kim!!!

Categories: food, holiday, platters

After a fantastic food-filled & game-filled Thanksgiving Day with my wonderful “adopted family” of friends… there wasn’t much left of my pumpkin cheesecake. Even the little ones liked it. So I guess it was a hit!!!

Categories: food, holiday, platters, stamped, surface decoration

All ready for our Thanksgiving Feast!!!
My contribution for the best part of the meal… DESSERT!!!

I made a Marbled Pumpkin Cheesecake with a gingersnap cookie crust!
Always fun to have a nice platter to present my dessert on… I hope everyone likes it?!!!

Categories: food, platters, process, stamped, surface decoration

Just doing a little “slip trailing” with melted chocolate!!! Decorating my dessert contribution to today’s Thanksgiving feast. And I wanted a smaller circle to create the ring of dots around… so why not use a smaller bowl upside-down as the “stencil”???