One of my favorite sets of dinner plates… gently drying in the dish drainer. So good to see that my pottery is actually getting used out there! Too often people think that handmade pottery is too “fragile” to use… but it’s NOT!!! It’s meant to be used & loved every day… even run through the dishwasher!

Sadly, I think this is the finally blossom off my dahlia plant. You can tell by the number of posts I’ve done about these dahlias, that I’m kind of enamored by them. I love how the petals start yellow and turn to this coral red color as they mature. It was my first summer growing dahlias… methinks I need to plant more colors & more varieties next summer!!! More is more!!!

Another batch of textured fortune cookies drying in my studio!

A quick batch of medium vases…
stamped & painted with colored flashing slips for my next soda kiln!

So we recently got a new slip color at Lillstreet.
RED… and not a rusty iron red, but a true holiday red!!!

I’ve used it a couple times with some of my Summer Campers… but never on my own work. So this is a test. I can’t wait to see if it does anything cool in the soda kiln. Might be nice, might not be… we’ll see in a couple weeks!

What better way to celebrate than with another batch of mugs freshly stamped, assembled & accents painted with colored flashing slips.

Possibly the cutest little cup & saucer ever… part of my class demo last week about “throwing-off-the-hump.” Where you start with a large lump of clay, center just the top nugget and throw smaller pieces off the top.

Just finished stamping, trimming & adding colored slip details to the lidded jars I started as part of a demo for my Intermediate Wheelthrowing class last week. Always feels good when everything fits together… and you set them aside to start drying!

A cutie-patootie vase perfect for a cutting of lantana flowers…
with a cute-patootie cat keeping watch. Thanks for the photos Kristy!

Well, it was bound to happen.. another batch of textured picture frames as part of another upcoming collaboration with painter Mary Foster. We first introduced these collaboration pieces at ART IN THE GARDEN this summer… and kinda figured we should do it again for THE COZY COTTAGE POP-UP in November. She’s already got a head-start on her paintings… so I felt as though I had better get my act together too!