So I put the bottom shelves back in the kiln… a great place to start.
Then last night I stacked my pots into the kiln… shelf by shelf… brick by brick… pot by pot.

Last night I was greeted with an empty kiln… full of possibilities…
ready to be filled with pots for another soda firing!

Finished teaching class tonight… and happy to see that my bisque kiln was finished too!!!
You gotta love seeing those four letters!!!

Everything dried overnight as planned.
All of these pieces will need to be glazed & wadded later this week!

Also… kinda excited to get my “monster” from last session’s THROWDOWN class into the kiln. He’ll be a lot less fragile once he’s bisqued! And then I’ll just need to figure out how to add some color to him?!

Mental note to self… don’t wipe the underside of a kiln shelf with your bare hand. You never know what the person before you in the kiln may have left behind!!!

Second note… buy more band-aids!

Just a quick sneak peek into the kiln to see the top layer of fresh, new Christmas Trees!!! Almost ready for this weekend’s HOLIDAY HOME SHOW. They just need a little more festive charm… coming soon!!!

You gotta love when a couple of your “studio friends” have a little extra space in their bisque kiln… and I just happened to have a few mugs ready to fill that space!!! Thank you Christine & Tracey… you da’ best!

And not a moment too soon… #IYKYK

A quick glimpse into my soda kiln… starting with a pretty perfect cone 10 !!!

Looks like an exterminator found its way into Cory’s studio! All joking aside… sometimes bad things happen to good bugs. Pottery has this strange way of keep all of us very humble. Just when you start to think that you’ve got this thing under control, the kiln gods step up with a healthy slap of reality. We’ve all been there. It hurts. All that time & effort… gone. And it always seems to happen at the worst of times. So here we are… less than a week away from ART IN THE GARDEN.

But we artists are a resilient bunch. So Cory & I are quickly developing a “Plan B” and trying to make the best of a bad situation. Desperate times call for desperate measures… and a LOT more creativity!!! I’m sure she’ll make the best out of this… some are fine, some art salvageable, some aren’t. So we may be shifting gears… but we’ll STILL have some fun collaboration pieces to show off next weekend. Perhaps not so many bugs… but who knows, maybe some TV’s or other fun things???