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

So here’s the deal… starting this Friday night at 8:00pm central time, I will be posting twenty mugs on my Facebook page… up for grabs for a quick online sale. Celebrate St. Nick’s Day by grabbing a handmade mug for yourself or someone on your holiday gift list. Its going to be first-come first-served… so check-in on my Facebook this Friday night at 8:00pm when the online sale goes live!!!

Click here for a quick link to my Facebook page… and then click FOLLOW!!!

Categories: art fair, mugs, soda-fired, stamped

Coming soon…
another chance to score a FIRE WHEN READY POTTERY mug or two online!!!
Yes, I will soon be hosting an online sale on my Facebook page offering up twenty mugs online for those of you who can’t quite make it to an art fair or my Holiday Home Show! You may have “followed” me for years… and now a chance to get a mug!!! More details coming soon… just in time for St. Nick’s Day!!!

Categories: art fair, mugs, soda-fired, stamped

Lots of mugs in the dishwasher means we went through a LOT of hot apple cider today!
And that’s a good thing with lots of happy customers! More cider, more fun tomorrow!!!

Categories: art fair, mugs

Here’s just a quick selection of the mugs that are on the shelves for tomorrow’s HOLIDAY HOME SHOW. My goal is always to have a hundred or more mugs… and I’m already well-over that goal number!!! Hoping these babies go off to good homes!

Categories: art fair, mugs, soda-fired

Spending the day at home setting up, stocking shelves and climbing the stairs more times than I can count!!! But I am enjoying the good weather and the blue skies streaming in through a top shelf of mugs!!! Just getting everything ready for this weekend’s HOLIDAY HOME SHOW!!!

Categories: mugs, soda-fired, stamped

Fresh from the soda kiln… and still a bit warm for a “slightly late” Mugshot Monday!!!

Categories: kiln firing, mugs, pottery, process, production

After a couple hours of “Pottery Tetris”… I finally got my soda kiln filled to the brim last night. Lots of pots & ornaments that will be coming out just in time for next weekend’s HOLIDAY HOME SHOW!!!

The Back Stack…

The Front Stack…

Categories: glaze, mugs, production

Also glazed up a batch of mugs that will go into my soda kiln. Hopefully this glaze
will have some intriguing variations caused by the soda atmosphere in the kiln.

Categories: glaze, mugs, process, production

Let the glazing begin… lots of mugs getting some glaze inlaid in the stamps,
and a liner glaze inside. Prepping lots of pots for this weekend’s soda kiln firing!!!

Categories: mugs, process, production, stamped

Adding some colored flashing slip accents to this latest batch of mugs. They will go into my soda kiln next weekend where these muted slip colors will react in the soda atmosphere to create some brighter colors & magical effects… if all goes as planned.