More holiday snacks… I’m “sure” they taste a LOT better when served in Fire When Ready Pottery!!! Oval casserole filled with chips, tiled trivet, candle votive and a wheelthrown ornament. Happy Holidays… and thanks for sharing your pottery-filled family gatherings with me!

If you have any photos from your holiday gatherings using my pottery, please e-mail them to me so I can share your pictures too. gary@firewhenreadypottery.com

I got a wonderful e-mail this morning from my friend Sarah Chapman.
Celebrating the holidays with her version of a Christmas tree. So cool…
and pretty sweet to be the “featured” artist!!!

Heyro there Mr. Jackson!
Here are a few shots of our new tree filled with all of your ornaments from 2014. And a close up of some of my favorites including the Gingerbread man wearing pants! He really should be wearing shorts since you made him! I love them all….

However… it looks like her tree could use a few MORE ornaments?!
Which is good news… as Sarah and I have recently decided to do our Monthly Ornament Challenge once again this coming year. So get ready for another new ornament every month through 2016!!!

Gotta start thinking. Gotta start sketching.
Gotta start planning… a lot of new ornaments to come…

Still getting ready for tomorrow’s big Holiday Home Show!
Repelnishing shelves. Restocking inventory…
and adding more to the Tired Of Shlepping Sale shelves!
And we’re marking down a LOT of holiday ornaments.
Originally $15, $20 or even $25 each… on sale tomorrow only for $5 each!!!
Snowflakes, gingerbread men, stars, fortune cookies and even some Ho’s!!!
Here’s a quick glimpse of the ornaments I just now put on the back porch…
because I’m just plain tired of shlepping them around!

Need some new holiday ornaments for your tree???
There will be plenty of them available tomorrow at our MUD & METAL event.
Stop by my place between 10:00am-6:00pm tomorrow to do a little shopping,
or just hang out & enjoy the festivities… and the comfort of my couch!

Just a quick heads-up… “The St. Nick’s Day Online Sale” officially closes tomorrow at Noon. Several of the mugs & ornaments have been claimed, but there are still plenty of sweet gifts to be purchased. Consider this your 24-hour reminder!

Click here to go to the Facebook Photo Album to start shopping.

ONLINE SALE CLOSED!!! Thanks for playing.

ONLINE SALE CLOSED! Thanks for playing.

Quick… the St. Nick’s Day Online Sale just went “LIVE” a second ago!!!
Click here for my Fire When Ready Pottery Facebook page.
There is a Photo Album of the mugs & ornaments up for sale.
Each of them is $50 which includes shipping & handling.
For ease of getting everything out by Christmas, contiguous US please.

Simply find the piece you want, then add a Comment on the individual picture in the Photo Album. If you’re the first person to claim it with a simple “MINE. MINE. MINE”… or something similar… you get the mug or ornament. It’s first come, first claimed.

This online sale ends on Friday, December 11th at noon.

So hurry up… what are you doing here wasting time…
Get on over to the Facebook page and see what’s left. Snatch ’em up quick!!!
Christmas is coming sooner than you think.

A quick layer loaded into a bisque kiln.
Rapid replenishment for my Second Holiday Home Show on Saturday, December 12th.

Thrown & stamped Saturday… Trimmed & handled Sunday… Drying & into a kiln Monday.

Unloading the kiln is always a weird mix of excitement.
A fun treasure hunt to see everything coming out. But kind of a hurry to get it all done. Unloading all of the pots, packing them up, cleaning the kiln, scraping the shelves, re-kiln washing, sweeping up and all of the other “glamorous parts” of the process that no one thinks about. So many of my pieces go straight from the kiln and into a box to get them home.

Pretty excited about the latest batch of spoons & ornaments.
I’ll have time to really look a them later… for now it’s time to clean & scrape!!!

One of my students just stopped by with a sweet treat to make my Glazing Day go better. So festive now with peppermint & ornaments!!! Thank you Catherine.

One of my students has been “bitten” by the holiday ornament bug. Throwing them off the hump & adding a handbuilt top the same way I do. I love when students follow along and try the class demo, embrace it and begin to make it their own. And here she is now making her own batch of beautiful, wheelthrown ornaments. Well done Marni!