Adding some color with flashing slips that will react in the soda kiln when these get fired next weekend! Wouldn’t know it now… but these “should” turn orange! Fingers crossed…

Handles on! We now have another batch of “hybrid mugs”… a combination of wheelthrown & handbuilding techniques. Next up… some flashing slips to add some color that will be enhanced during the soda-firing process next weekend.

Each one a different pattern… a different texture… a different hybrid mug in the making!
Thanks to a wide assortment of texture handrollers from MKM Pottery Tools!

Another 10×10 CHALLENGE… this time trying to crank out another batch of my hybrid mugs in the next couple days! My next soda kiln is just over a week away… and I hope to get them in. These are the bottom wheelthrown “bases”… more than ten before 10:00am!

With warrantied replacement parts & pieces… I’m back up & running with my favorite Giffin Grip! So much fun & so much quicker… especially when trimming these little cutie-patooties mini vases!!!

Another productive day… working on some new vases for an upcoming soda kiln firing.
Lots of stamping & “oval-sizing” today! Gosh I love ovals…

Okay… so I may have “over-used” my Giffin Grip… if that’s even a thing?

I LOVE my Giffin Grip… but I take it on & off my wheel so many times each week for trimming. After “investigating” the un-centered wobbliness… it appears as though one of the three “connectors” has a small fracture. Three connectors underneath… vertical, vertical, not-so-vertical?! Luckily, Giffin Grip has replacement parts & pieces… so I hope to be able to ”centered” again pretty soon! Of course, this happens on a day when I have a lot of bowls to trim… ugh, centering the old-fashioned way!!! Ha!!!

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!

Handles pulled & looped-over to stiffen up a bit. Getting ready to add these handles to another batch of mugs … as soon as they stop being so sticky & mushy.

Stamped & handled… one step closer!
Coming along nicely with a deadline drawing near!!!