Next weekend is the NORTHERN ILLINOIS POTTERY TOUR… and I will be one of the Guest Potters at my friend Cory McCrory’s studio in Sandwich, Illinois. I’ve been enamored by her whimsical pieces ever since we met MANY years ago at an art fair. Her textures, patterns, colors & whimsy! Make sure you mark your calendar & set your GPS for Sandwich… make it your first stop of the Pottery Tour!

More details at www.northernilpotterytour.com

Big THANKS to everyone who came out to the HINSDALE FINE ARTS FESTIVAL this weekend. It was great to see everyone again, sell some pottery & hangout in the park in what turned out to be beautiful weather. Plus, now I have another bunch of flowers leftover from my booth display…. now gracing my back porch in a stamped soda-fired vase!

If only they would still be fresh next weekend for THE NORTHERN ILLINOIS POTTERY TOUR… but I kinda doubt it…

A dark & cloudy start to the day… not much of a sunrise as the clouds move out over the lake… luckily no rain, just clouds. Kinda glad this darkness is moving through early this morning. Hoping that it clears up a bit more for Day Two at the HINSDALE FINE ARTS FESTIVAL. C’mon by… 10:00am-5:00pm in Booth #69.

So the big tree that shades my booth at the HINSDALE FINE ARTS FESTIVAL is gone!!! Apparently it blew & fell down earlier this week…better than happening today, right?! Luckily, it’s a beautiful cloudy day… so we’re all good in Booth #69 today!

Just a quick reminder that this weekend is the HINSDALE FINE ARTS FESTIVAL in Burlington Park in downtown beautiful Hinsdale. I will setting up my tent & filling it with pottery in my usual space Booth #69… typically while enjoying a nice breeze under the big shade tree!!! So come on out Saturday or Sunday for some summer art fair fun!

All glazed & kiln loaded… with some soon-to-be colorful mugs on the bottom layer! Now to get home to start prepping & packing for this weekend’s HINSDALE FINE ARTS FESTIVAL. It should be a beautiful weekend in Burlington Park in downtown Hinsdale… c’mon by!

Just a few more… a few more to glaze & a few more to load. Trying to glaze & load the kiln kinda at the same time. Hoping to get everything in so I can have the kiln fire & cool over the weekend. Just in time for THE NORTHERN ILLINOIS POTTERY TOUR next weekend June 11th & 12th.

Another beautiful orchid starting to re-bloom in my dining room…
and the smallest & cutest orchid in my collection!

You gotta love when one of your pottery students goes on vacation to Cabo San Lucas… and brings back a “souvenir” for you! Gracias mi estudiante Stacey!

Chelsea felt terrible about that stunning purple & red bowl that she glazed… and then broke… and then fixed… and kintsugi’d. She felt so bad… that she wanted to glaze another bowl to make up for it. So I offered up this bisqued bowl… which was already a “collaboration” with Chelsea.

This bowl was made during my “not-so-basic-bowls” demo last session when she strolled by and I shanghai’d her into doing a quick demo of her squiggly indentation technique. And then of course, I had to take it one step further and carved a pattern above the squiggle indents. More is more, right?!

Anyways, I can’t see what glaze magic Chelsea does to this bowl… that last one was stunning! So I have high hopes!!! More photos coming soon…