Let the trimming begin!!!…
and have I mentioned lately that I LOVE trimming?! Yep, I do.

So then this happened… after carefully taking our spoons to the kiln room, and asking the monitor if we could carefully slide them in… he said he would take care of them for us. Only to find one of Jen’s ladles broken on the “reject shelf” just a few minutes later. Thankfully there was a note… we knew they were fragile… and I tried my darnedest to fix it for her. We’ll just have to see if it “survives” another trip to the kiln.

I get it. We all do… and I know the kiln loader is putting in hundreds of fragile pieces! It was just bad timing as we had just offered to put them in ourselves… so if it were going to break, it would have been Jen breaking her own piece… instead of the monitor!

Tools of the trade. Love my Bison tools for trimming…
and my MudTools rib for smoothing & burnishing!

Just a little early-morning trimming to start the day!

Just doing a little early morning glazing…
yes, on a “different” set of mugs than the ones I finished making last night!

Another night… another two dozen mugs!!!
Happy Mugshot Monday… making my favorites!!!
Now just for a little clean-up & colored slip accents tomorrow.

Score… slip… attach… repeat… repeat… repeat…

Let the handle attachments commence… round two for tonight…
making mugs out of cylinders!!!

Just pulled another batch of handles…
I’m in the middle of a long night of adding handles to make mugs!
One dozen done… got another dozen to go!!!