Celebrating another MUGSHOT MONDAY with a bunch of new mugs fresh from the soda kiln. Another new shape I’ve been playing with! Making their “Big Debut” at ART IN THE BARN this weekend!!!

So I’ve dropped some hints… left some clues… alluded to some AITG collaboration projects. Did you catch ‘em?! Well, here’s a more direct approach since ART IN THE GARDEN is just a week away! My “collaboration cohort” Cory McCrory has been working on our pieces very quietly in her studio. I dropped off a few stamped platters with very “plain” interior areas. Cory will be changing that while adding her amazing sense of whimsy & crazy cool color schemes. I can’t wait to see them myself… teaser photos coming soon?!

I love dahlia season! Such amazing flowers in a wide range of colors, sizes & petal formations. Thankful for Farmer’s Markets with fresh-cut flowers… and having the “perfect” vase to put them in!!!

Pressing one of my handmade clay stamps into the clay one by one… by one… by one…

Now if only that center section weren’t so plain & flat?… more to come???
More is more!!!

Worked on another platter this afternoon… stamping a textured pattern around the flange of the platter. All done with one of my handmade clay stamps! Kinda plain on the inside though… might need a little sumthin’-sumthin’. Right Cory?!

Doing a little stamping this morning… one impression at a time! Press, squeeze, repeat.
The textured pattern was made all with that one handmade clay stamp!

While my potluck contribution was a homemade Chocolate Chip Tollhouse Pie!
A longtime family favorite recipe… and now my students favorite too!
Homemade pie on a handmade plate!!! Yummy!!!

Finished stamping all of these simple cylinders.
Now it’s time to add some colored slip accents…
as they’re destined for a soda-firing coming soon!!!

Got an early start this morning… stamping the cylinders from yesterday!
Ended up with forty of them. Not a bad day in the studio yesterday!!!

Celebrating another Floral Friday with a collection of flowers in one of my stamped & soda-fired vases. Fun orange & gold flowers with some seeded eucalyptus for added texture!