So last Friday night, I rolled my studio cart down to the kiln room… via the jenky freight elevator… yikes! Everything arrived safely and I was all glazed & wadded… ready to start loading the soda kiln. The challenge is always to “squeeze in” as many pots a possible… while still leaving enough open spaces for proper air-flow through the kiln so the soda atmosphere can make its way though to hit all of the pieces! Here we go…. giddy-up!

So someone commented on my last pumpkin post that the wanted pumpkins with no warts… wait, what?! I believe the warts are what makes them cute & have a personality! The more warts the better!!! More is more!!! But… maybe I’m the only one who feels that way? So I just cranked out another quick batch of pumpkins with no warts!!! We’ll see… they kinda look naked to me?!

Pumpkins are now coated with some orange flashing slip for my upcoming soda kiln firings.
But here’s the real question… IS THE SUCH A THING AS TOO MANY PUMPKINS?!!!

I hope not… cuz’ I can’t stop myself…

Well, here’s the next “harvest” of pumpkins in my studio… all assembled & “pumpkintized”!!!
Now they just need some color… FALL COLORS!!! So soon?… say it isn’t so…

Another batch of pumpkins “growing” in my studio…
just a little “pumpkintizing” here & there…
grooves, lines, bulges, warts, stems… PUMPKINS!!!

One last step before I hand them off to Cory McCrory to start her part of our collaboration project for ART IN THE GARDEN. It’s one of the coolest parts of that art fair… where all of the artists have a chance to do some fun collaboration projects with other artists. One-of-a-kind artworks that may never happen again! Just a great chance for we artists to “play together”.. and then share our craft with all of you. And some lucky customers will get to go home with these pieces at ART IN THE GARDEN. More to come…

Just doing a little early morning stamping in the studio. These are destined for ART IN THE GARDEN in two weeks… and my pal Cory has some great plans to add her own kind of “magic” to them first!!! You know how I LOVE collaboration projects!!!

Kinda diggin’ this early morning production thing! Cranking out some flower pots early this morning… before heading back outside to play this afternoon! Gotta get these moving… as ART IN THE GARDEN is now just two weeks away!

A very productive morning in the studio before 10am… cranking out another batch of mugs! Starting with a bagful of clay… and voila’… twenty mug cylinders!!! Lots of stamping to come!

So here they are for now… lots of new mugs with some of them “destined” to be part of our class trading & exchanging game for the final night of my Intermediate Wheel class. Still gotta lot to do… drying, bisque firing, glazing & firing again… with the deadline quickly approaching… giddy-up!