Celebrating today’s holiday with this wonderful “conjoined” double pumpkin…
for twice the pumpkin fun!!

You know I love pumpkins… but I LOVE gourds even more. I think it’s the colors, the textures, the quirky curves… and how every one of them is completely different!!! So here’s my back porch with “just a few” gourds making it festive for the Fall season! Oh yeah… and there might be some rusty metal pieces mixed in with my display!

With Halloween just two weeks away… it’s definitely time to pull out your Halloween decorations! I’m loving what Beth has done with my soda-fired pumpkins with a background vignette of candles & bats!!! Very festive, classy… with just a tiny touch of spooky!

With cooler temps & falling leaves, Autumn is definitely in the air. So last night in my Beginning Wheel class, we did a little “pumpkintizing” of the enclosed forms they threw the week before! My demo pumpkins with warts… and a trio of “smooth” pumpkins by Kaitlin!

Early morning in the “pumpkin patch” choosing which ones are coming to ART IN THE GARDEN this weekend!!! Fall is here… already time for PUMPKINS!!!

Before & After. I’m loving how these pumpkin cuties turned out. Amazing what a little atmospheric soda-firing can do to change the colors of a flashing slip! Now I just need to decide how many are coming to each show with me?… and if I might “need” to keep one for myself?!

Pumpkin jack-o’lanterns loaded in the kiln for the night. They might look white now… but hopefully a good soda-firing tomorrow will make them turn orange! Fingers crossed…

Touched-up, cleaned-up, “wart-ified” & painted with a layer of orange flashing slip.
Ready to dry… and then off to a bisque kiln!

A kinda “spirited” 10×10 Challenge! Not the usual new pieces before 10:00am… instead, more than ten jack-o‘lantern faces carved by 10:00am. Still a little rough, but I’ll clean them up & then paint them with a colored slip for my next soda kiln firing

Everyone knows picking a good pumpkin requires a good stem!
And I’ve just added a few twisted ones…