Sure, not a day off… just a day when we got snow. Don’t get too excited!

Today on the front page of the Food Section of the Chicago Tribune newspaper, my friend & former pottery student Martin Sorge is featured with his recipe for this beautiful pavlova dessert for Valentine’s Day! Huge congrats to Martin as he continues towards writing his own cookbook. And that pavlova looks AMAZING… even better when presented on a stamped pottery cake stand.

Look familiar???… it’s mine!!!

Last night in my pottery class, we had the new “Post Malone” OREOs. Tasty & caramelly… if that’s even a word?! However… as a lover of a good spiral… I will say there was never a spiral of filling to be found inside a cookie as shown on the packaging?! Maybe it was a bad batch… we might need to try another package???

Textured tiles now accented with colored slips & drying in a plastic grid to avoid warping! Can’t wait to fire these to see the colors pop… and quick… “4×4” is just two weeks away! Yikes!!!

Some early morning textured tiles in the works… getting ready for “4×4 : FOUR MAKERS” which is just about two weeks away! A mix of textures using my own handmade stamps & some using my favorite MKM Pottery Tools handrollers!

You know how I love a good holiday… and today is NATIONAL PIZZA DAY!!!
And I woulda been remiss if I didn’t celebrate with a couple slices!!!

So here’s MY idea of a Super Bowl… a lot more fun than any game!!!
Where the half-time show is me going to refill my glass of milk!!!

Playing with some of my MKM Pottery Tools handrollers… making mini textured tiles with a master plan?! I’ve got a themed project in the making… and this is the start of the first of four pieces!

So the “real” challenge this week for my LILLSTREET THROWDOWNers was to throw the largest platter they could with 6-pounds of clay… and then decorate it to “match” or coordinate with their perfect dinner plate! We were looking for well-thrown plates & platters, as well as well-applied surface decoration that pulls them both together. Yep, they didn’t see that one coming! And yet they all did FANTASTIC… quite impressive!