In between Summer Camp all day & teaching adults at night… I finally found time to unload my soda kiln, pack it all up, clean the kiln, scrape the shelves, kiln was the shelves, clean the kiln room & a bunch of other “glamorous “ tasks! So I can finally share some photos of the soda-fired pots inside… including a bright blue I’m pretty excited about!!!

A quick sneaky-peek into the soda kiln before summer camp.
It’s still a bit warm, so I’ll be unloading it later today after my campers go home!!! Can’t wait…

A little wispy flame finding its way out while the soda kiln is in body reduction.

Late night texture… the back side of the soda kiln’s steel door!

An empty kiln… yet full of possibilities! Ready to start loading the soda kiln…

Some folks think pottery just happens… make it, fire it, done. But there’s a more behind the scenes that most people don’t know about. Like the “joy” of physically scraping down all of the kiln shelves after every soda-firing to remove any glaze drips or soda build-up. Gotta keep the shelves clean & ready for the next firing.

Just got a little busy… and now realizing that I didn’t post many photos from my recent soda kiln! So here are a few more photos of the front stack before I started to unload everything. It’s always like Christmas opening the door to reveal all of the presents inside!

Gotta love when you pull the kiln door away… and it reveals a lot of “soda-shiny” & colorful pots!!!
Big sigh of relief to see beautiful pots… another successful soda firing!

I’ll take this as a good sign.
A “perfect” cone ten! Finally cool enough to start unloading… more to come!!!

After about three hours last night, I finally had my pots carefully stacked in the kiln. Trying hard to get as many pots squeezed in… while not packing it too tight. There needs to be some “space” between the pots for the soda atmosphere to work its way through to “glaze” the pots with soda build-up.