Always fun to see one of my students wielding her DiamondCore Tools in class! Like last night when Darcy was carving cool starburst patterns on some cylinder cups… soon to be filled with wax for some beautiful candles!

Kickin’ off Day Two of MUD & METAL : My Second Holiday Home Show with plenty of textures for everyone!!! We’re open until 6:00pm today… c’mon by! Even if it’s just to hang-out on my sofa!

Waiting for a delayed “L” train… getting the blues?!

Just two stamped & soda-fired textures for a little TEXTURE TUESDAY! Inlaid with tenmoku glaze to make them POP!!!

#texturetuesday

Doing a little cleaning, prepping & getting ready to add wire rings to another batch of soda-fired star ornaments. Planning on having a bunch of these ready for this weekend’s COZY COTTAGE POP-UP… fun for everyone Friday night & all day Saturday!!!

So my textured picture frames just came out of the glaze kiln… and I’m totally diggin’ the colors, the textures and how well they’re all playing together! Now I just need to pair them up with Mary Foster’s mini-paintings for THE COZY COTTAGE POP-UP this Friday & Saturday. Always fun to put her colorful gouache paintings in my textured picture frames!

Racing towards some deadlines as I try to get a few last-minute pieces made for this weekend’s soda kiln… like these “hybrid” mugs which are a combo of wheelthrowing & handbuilding techniques.

Another batch of textured fortune cookies drying in my studio!

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!

The coolest pumpkin I could find… you know how I like my pumpkins to have warts!!! And MORE IS MORE… even with warts!!! Remember when pumpkins were just orange & smooth?!