Well, the Spring session of classes begin today at Lillstreet Art Center. Always fun to start a new session full of new ideas, new demos & so many possibilities. Tonight I’ll meet my Intermediate Wheel students… to find out how I can challenge them & how they will challenge me! And as they come to class tonight, they’ll also pass this wonderful “mandala” installation on the exterior of Lillstreet. Look closely… a little flashback… and you might just find one of my pieces immortalized in the bricolage mandala!

Looks like Leigh is doing a little Monday-caffeinating on another MUGSHOT MONDAY. Kicking off her day with some Spring flowers along with a stamped & soda-fired mug by you know who!

A cloudy start to the day… with one large cloud moving in from the north. I was hoping we might squeeze in a sunrise moment, but the cloud took over too soon! And it looks like the clouds may have won for the rest of the day?!

Okay, so my lidded oval casseroles now have some accents & details painted with colored flashing slips. I’m hoping to get these done & glazed in time for next weekend’s soda firing. Sure, I’m running a bit late… and trying to dry them quicker by raising them on a plastic grid to get air circulation on all sides… but I seem to work best under pressure. Fingers crossed.

Okay, so today I finally got around to making lids… oval lids for oval casseroles! Sure, the bottoms have been under plastic for awhile… spraying here, spraying there. I think they’re fitting pretty well… just a little more refinement before I add some colored slip accents.

Another entry for Spoon-Rest Sunday!!! Another Lisa sharing her soda-fired blue spoon rest. I love seeing all of the spoon-rest-luvin’ today!!! Plus, I’m also impressed on how clean everyone’s stoves are?! I mean, I know the spoon rests are dishwasher-safe… but I must admit MY stove isn’t usually this clean! HA!!

See, it’s catching on… Lisa is out there celebrating Spoon-Rest Sunday too!!!
Another one of my spoon rests out there in the wild living its best life on Lisa’s kitchen countertop!

A crazy-cool composition in black & white… one of my spoon rests out in the wild… celebrating Spoon-Rest Sunday! I think we might need to work on making that a thing… and thanks for kicking it off Bethany!

Sure, I could leave the mugs plain… and worry about adding some color when I glaze them. But since these are destined for the soda kiln… I’d rather give them some color now with colored slips that will change as the flames touch them in the kiln… depositing the soda mixture that will also “glaze’ the exteriors!

Scored & slipped… handles attached! We officially have more mugs!!!
A labor of love… as in “I truly love making mugs!”