Celebrating another MUGSHOT MONDAY with a bunch of new stamped & soda-fired mugs from my latest firing. Still loving all of the colors that came out… instead of the frequent grays & browns of a soda kiln!

Celebrating another Mugshot Monday with some of my newest “hybrid mugs” fresh from my recent soda firing. Hard to believe that art fair season starts in just over a month away… and these mugs will be coming with me!!! First up?… the Schaumburg Prairie Arts Festival in Memorial Day weekend.

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!

Unloaded my soda kiln yesterday. The anticipation & surprise of opening a kiln never gets old. Such a treat. And I always love to see some bright colors… proving that soda-fired pots don’t always need to be gray or brown!!!

Just a couple mugs after last night’s class. It’s only their second week of the session…
and a couple of them already have mugs! Me too… with a couple demo pieces!!!

A very sad Mugshot Monday… when a favorite hybrid mug meets a tickle-fight foot mixed with a little gravity! Looks like the tickle-fight loser will be buying you a new mug very soon Allyn! Thanks for sharing your grief & anguish.

Last night in class with my Beginners, we did a fun “white elephant” trading-stealing-exchanging game with handmade mugs!!! I put in a stamped & soda-fired mug… and came home with Michael’s cool striped black mug… made with thin lines of tape as the “resist” for the glazing process to make sleek stripes!!! Nicely done Michael.

Celebrating another Mugshot Monday with a nice collection just hangin’ around waiting to be chosen for the day’s java journey!!! So fun to see my mugs showing up in other peoples kitchens!!!

Adding some accents of colored slip to my new batch of mugs this morning.
A little splash of color that will change in my next soda-kiln firing about a month from now!

Handles attached… mugs assembled! I’ll keep them under plastic overnight…
and then clean them up & add some accents of colored flashing slips
before I let them start drying!