Today is the LAST official day of Summer!!!
The weather is AMAZING today… so get out there to enjoy it while you can. Sounds like Fall comes in tomorrow with the temperatures dropping about twenty degrees!!!

My biggest art fair of the season is less than a week away!!! Yep, I have a DOUBLE BOTH next weekend at ART IN THE BARN! Twice as much pottery, twice as much fun… and a lot of shelving for me to transport back & forth!!! Mark your calendar… it’s a great art fair all decked out for Fall… complete with clay pumpkins & the newest addition to The Ghouls Collection! I’ll be in my usual space in the Lower Barn booth E4 & E6. Hope to see you there… and bring a friend!!!

A nice “tour” through Suzi’s kitchen… showing off a nice stamped & glazed utensil crock with fine collection of wooden spoons! Her spoons, my vase… a perfect working collaboration!

So today is NATIONAL “TALK LIKE A PIRATE” DAY!!!… aaarrgh Matey!!!

So what better day to “reveal” the doodle & the first prototype of this year’s new addition to The Ghouls Collection?! Sure, he’s cute now… but wait until he’s all painted in colors!!! They’ll be “sailing in” to “plunder” ART IN THE BARN this weekend!!!

The first of many “details” added to my new “Ghoul”… and many more pieces & parts added throughout a full day in the studio. A lot of scoring & slipping… but it’s always good to have a plan. I struggle each year to finalize my “Ghoul Plan”… but once I have a sketchy doodle on my work table that I like… I’m all in!

In a field of beautiful goldenrod, there are plenty of bees enjoying the flowers & pollen… and a cool praying mantis basking in the sun!

Lots of clouds… very little sun! With one little gap along the horizon, the sun “almost” found it’s way out… creating a very short-lived sunrise show!

Moving right along… forty faces done… next up?… character details! The newest addition to The Ghouls Collection is well under way… gotta have them all done by next weekend! Yikes!!! The “big reveal” happens at ART IN THE BARN in Barrington!

With Fall quickly approaching, you feel a change in the air, a different direction for the sun & the Summer flowers are starting to fade. Beautiful, but sad… I’ll be hanging onto Summer as long as I can!!!

After a couple mornings of humid cloudy-fogginess, it was great to finally see a beautiful sunrise again! It has been so foggy the past couple mornings that the TV news teams actually referred to it as “milky” along the lakefront?! But not today… back to BEAUTIFUL!!!