Getting ready to add some stamped textures & patterns on these mugs! But the real question is “which” of the stamps should I use??? Too many choices as I have literally hundreds… maybe even thousands?.. of my own handmade stamps!!!

More than ten pieces wheelthrown before 10:00am… this time another batch of mugs in the works!!! These ones will be glazed… so I added some textured bands around the top for the glaze to puddle & pool in!!!

Looks like it’s time to get some glaze on! Everything is finally painted with underglaze… so now it’s time for a layer of clear glaze to make everything shiny & more vibrant.

My latest pumpkin patch is coming along nicely… after a couple hours in the studio “pumpkintizing” my smooth spheres. Grooves, warts, stems & leaves! All getting ready for ART IN THE BARN in a couple weeks!!!

More than ten done before 10:00am! My “harvest” of pumpkins ran out at the art fair last weekend… so it’s time to “grow” some more in time for ART IN THE BARN in Barrington. Always the last weekend of September!

So it took my just about three hours to fully load the soda kiln… kinda like Pottery Tetris! Trying to fit in as much as possible, all the while trying to leave some space for air to flow through during the firing. The soda atmosphere needs to get in between everything to leave its glazed finish. I piled a LOT of work into this one! The back stack is a single shelf filled first to the top. Then front stack is a double-shelf filled up to the arch. It’s packed tight… so it might be a long firing today?!

And then I rolled down my studio cart… the same one my Dad built for me several years ago! I have figured out that a full cart of glazed & wadded work pretty much equals a fully loaded soda kiln. The masking tape just works as a little “protection” so nothing jumps off the shelves while I take the rickety freight elevator downstairs… kinda like a pottery seat belt!!

Playing with power tools! These boards aren’t gonna finish themselves!!!
Which means I need to keep working on these collaboration projects!!!
We’re a little over a week away from having it all come together… fingers crossed.

Roll, glue, stick, flip, press, repeat. Just adding a bit of wadding to every textured tile for my soda firing this weekend. They might look white now, but they’ve all got some colored flashing slips on them. So if all goes well, they should change to a range of oranges & yellows!!!

Handles attached… they are now “officially“ mugs! Hybrid mugs both wheelthrown & handbuilt. Using both techniques throughout the process. Just need to add some colored flashing slip tomorrow & then they can start drying.