Looks like another ETSY purchase made its way to its forever home! A sweet stamped & yellow glazed bowl that looks like it’s already making its way to salad heaven! Plus a stamped & soda-fired mug that looks like it has already made a bunch of friends… and a “stacked” place of honor in an already booming Mug Collection!!!

Thanks for sharing Anita…
and it looks like you might need some more shelving?!!!

Don’t forget that my ETSY shop is always open if you need to add something to YOUR collection!!!… https://www.etsy.com/shop/FireWhenReadyPottery

So my Summer Camp kids are rushing towards the end of their week with me… which means tomorrow is finishing touches on their sculptures!!! Followed by their SCULPTURE GALLERY SHOW at 3:00pm tomorrow afternoon. They’ve worked hard on their pieces all week and are anxious to show-off their talents.

Such a sweet little stamped vase with some beautiful roses.
Thanks Rhonda for sharing your flowers in one of my soda-fired vases!

I found a beautiful patch of yellow lilies this morning just down the street. Loving the crisp brightness of yellow color… some with a hint of green, others with a smidge of orange. So striking. So beautiful.

As they get closer to finishing their sculptures, my Summer Campers this week would like to invite you another SCULPTURE GALLERY SHOW! Come see their birdhouses & oversized sculptures this Friday afternoon from 3:00-3:30pm at Lillstreet Art Center!

And as always… Rule #3… if you make the mess, you WILL be cleaning it up! Rosie was a trooper… and cleaned up her mess on the floor, and then just kept on going! Fun with the sponge… wiping the floor & sliding on her knees!

Yep, another week of gooey-sloppy fun playing with plaster gauze building our larger sculptures! They start with building an armature structure out of cardboard boxes, wire, chicken wire, newspaper, more wire and a LOT of masking tape. Today they covered the armature with a layer plaster gauze. Tomorrow we add on details & textures… and then start painting to make them really come to life!

So now I’ve wiped off the top layer of tenmoku glaze so you can see the geometric shapes even better. I’ve also added the liner glaze to all of them. The request was for the colors to mimic the colors of the wedding… which is based off of a “fig.” Yes, the fruit. So we decided that the liner glaze would be a purpleish-plum color. Fingers crossed that they look good after the soda-firing!

Starting the mug glazing process… putting some tenmoku glaze into the stamped details. When they dry, I’m going to wipe the high surfaces so that the glaze stays inlaid in the indentations.

A bit on the cloudy side this morning. Lots of wispy clouds blowing through & shrouding the sun as it tried to peek through. Eventually, it made a valiant effort and found its way through the hazy clouds for a fun splash of reflection along the lakefront.