Cold & cloudy to start the day!

Just a few of the mugs that will be going up for sale in tomorrow’s ETSY Shop update!!! I have thirty mugs ready to go off to new homes as soon as my ETSY Shop goes live at 6:00pm CST tomorrow!!!

Here’s the link… click it now, and “favorite” it before tomorrow’s big sale… https://www.etsy.com/shop/FireWhenReadyPottery

Cylinders trimmed & drying… wait, WHAT?!

Perfectly smooth? No stamping? No texture? No patterns? Don’t panic… I kinda have a plan for these! You know how I love a good plan! More soon…

Been working on measuring mugs this afternoon… important things like height & volume. Trying to get everything ready for tomorrow’s big ETSY Shop update! For now all thirty mugs are on my table with yellow post-it notes trying to keep track of everything!!!

There’s nothing currently in my ETSY Shop… but click here and “favorite” it now so it’s easier to navigate tomorrow when things go LIVE at 6:00pm CST. It’s gonna be first come, first serve!!!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/FireWhenReadyPottery

Finally getting around to finishing up a little commission… of little side plates. Half with a spiral, half without a spiral… but all with stamped perimeters!!! Drying now… need to be bisque fired still… looking forward to glazing them soon!

I’m kinda thinking it might be time for another online mug sale?! So today I’m enjoying the sun streaming through the window as I’m photographing a bunch of mugs! Mugshot Monday should be a nice day to kick-off my ETSY Store re-fresh… as long as I can stay focused and not get distracted by this sunny afternoon?!

After throwing-off-the-hump, my LILLSTREET THROWDOWN peeps turned their attention from matching mini bowls… to matching serving bowls! They had three pounds for each bowl, and plenty of time to make them as “perfectly matching” as they could. Plenty of time to throw two bowls… plenty of time to throw a replacement bowl or two… plenty of time to overthink things… plenty of time to push too far until they flop!

They all did a great job… but no winner was chosen! As the “real challenge” is to come back to class next week with two perfectly matching & perfectly TRIMMED serving bowls!!!

Last night during my LILLSTREET THROWDOWN class, we started the night with an “off-the-hump” wheelthrowing challenge! They each started with 8-pounds of clay and about 30 minutes to throw as many small dishes as possible “off-the-hump”… which means working off the top of a bigger lump of clay, only centering & working with a small handful each time until the big ball of clay has all been used up. The “big twist” was that the bowls had to be between 3″-4″ at the rim… and only the ones that matched would count!!!

Big kudos to Will who cranked out the most matching bowls during our quick challenge!

Everything went “wrong” last night… at The Broadway Playhouse in Water Tower Place. A fun slapsticky who-dunnit farce… kinda like if Sherlock Holmes and Monty Python had an illegitimate Broadway baby!!!

Just visiting my “happy place.”
But then I saw it… an IMPOSTER!!!