Mark your calendar! This weekend is a fun kick-off of Fall at ART IN THE BARN!
It’s my last outdoor art fair of the season & all decorated for Fall!
Even if there’s a few sprinkles of rain in the forecast, my booth is open-air
yet protected inside the vintage barn!

And it’s a big one where I have a double booth full of twice as much pottery!!!
Including Fall “specialties” like pumpkins & my annual Halloween “Ghoul” collectibles.
Hope you can make it… I’d love to see you there!

Apparently this year’s new Ghoul started with an idea, a doodle & a bottle cap!!!

You gotta love when a former student knows that you “might” have a certain obsession…
and decides to leave a thematic treat on your Teacher’ s Shelf!

Thanks Taylor… the Coca-Cola OREO cookies were great,
not so sure about this soda pop version ?!

And since I don’t drink caffeinated beverages, I might need to rely on someone else’s review?! … or just keep it as a souvenir?! Trust me though… we don’t need to see me on caffeine… that can’t be pretty!!!

So while I’ve been so busy making, glazing & firing my recent soda kiln… I’ve also been working on THIS for awhile!!! Another project… some holiday fun with muddy terra cotta! I know it’s just the beginning making forty cylinders. All of which will transform in this year’s newest addition to The Ghouls Collection! One more “ghoul” to add to the collection of Halloween themed collectibles!

More to come…

The pumpkin patch is ready to harvest this weekend in Barrington! Fresh out of the soda kiln… plenty of clay pumpkins in assorted sizes. Even a few without warts for those “select few”… and you know who you are!

The rush is on… trying to get everything ready for this weekend’s art fair in Barrington. ART IN THE BARN is my biggest outdoor show… well, kinda… it’s open-air, but I’m “protected” in the Lower Barn just in case it rains?! Still dry for shopping!!! And I have a double booth again this year… same place as always! A double booth means double the shelves, double the pottery & double the fun!!! So mark your calendar!!!

And yes, there will definitely be a new addition to The Ghouls Collection… still doing my darnedest to get them into a kiln!!! Look forward to a new “slightly warm” Ghoul this Saturday morning!!!

So my soda kiln unloading went well yesterday. With plenty of fun colors & beautiful soda flashing throughout the kiln! Can’t wait to bring most of these new pieces to ART IN THE BARN this weekend in Barrington!

With another day of drizzly rain, my outdoor plants are very happy to hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. They’ve had a rough go of it during the past few weeks of dry droughtness!

Started taking off a few more layers of bricks… almost cool enough to unload. It’s always exciting to see a good “pop” of color at the top of my soda firing. I’m not a fan of the “soda-blasted” dark grays that look like “dolphin skin”… some people like it, but not me!!! I prefer COLOR over dark grayness!!!

Today is Monday… welcome to a new week! It’s also soda kiln unloading day!!!
I just cracked the kiln open so it can cool a little quicker. Also… a little sneaky peek!!!