When loading the soda kiln, you start with the back stack… one shelf wide stacked all the way up. Lots of pots. Lots of posts. Trying to balance packing it tight and getting a lot of pots into the kiln against leaving enough air space for the soda mixture to move through the kiln!

Admiring what the soda mixture does to the kiln bricks over time… loving the textures & colored patina effect. Too bad it’s not good for the longevity of the kiln. Beautiful, yet slowly destructive as it “eats away” at the brick!

Started last night’s loading with an empty kiln… and tons of potential.

When I finished glazing & wadding last night, I had to take my studio cart downstairs to the kiln room… using the rickety freight elevator. So I use some strips of tape to work as “seat belts” so nothing jumps off the cart. Too bad I ran out of room on the cart… as well as masking tape! Had to switch to blue painters tape!!!

Getting the glazing & wadding started with mugs… GIDDY-UP!!!

Unloaded my bisque kiln this morning… all good, no explosions…
LET THE GLAZING BEGIN!!

Just loaded my last bisque… had to call it “quits” on making things tonight,
for tomorrow I switch to glazing things!!! Four layers of greenware going into bisque firing. Not packed quite as tight as I would prefer, but it’s the final random pieces that just needed to be fired… including eight kinda freshly made wall vases! Fingers crossed…

One final glaze kiln. Four final letters.
Cool, unload and then it’s off for a Merry Christmas!!!

I’m making my list, and checking it twice… and there is still a lot of things to finish
in the next few days!!! ...did I mention LOTS?!!!

Just checked my kiln… so far so good. Always a sigh of relief to see that CPLT!!!