Another beautiful sunrise along the lakefront.
Sure the headwinds made it a little challenging, but the clouded drama made it all worthwhile.

It’s been a productive afternoon assembling these “hybrid” mugs… wheelthrown & handbuilt combos. There’s still a good amount of work to do on them… refining, trimming, adding handles, drying, firing, etc. But this feels like a good start. It’s always great seeing these “hybrid” mugs come together!

It’s been fun using some of my new handrollers today from MKM Pottery Tools. I’m generally a more “geometric” kinda guy when it comes to patterns & textures. But I will say I’m pretty excited about some of these new rollers that a more “illustrative” pattern on them. We’ll see how it goes with more rollers for more patterns!!!

Here we go again… making some textured slabs with my new MKM Pottery Tools handrollers. Fun patterns with crisp clean edges… coming soon to a new batch of “hybrid” mugs! This is the handbuilding part… soon to be added to the wheelthrown part! Thus… “HYBRID” mugs!!!

With thirteen minutes to spare!!! … whew!!!

APRIL 15th… a day to dread all year long!

And while it seemed like a very successful year… I’m playing with TurboTax & over here counting pennies!!! Being self-employed means I’m paying out big money every year on this date. Seems like we’re always working so hard & so many hours as a self-employed “starving artist”… only to give away a BIG chunk of my hard-earned cash to the government?! Why can’t I be one of those lucky billionaires?!

Time to have some textured fun in the studio again! My collection of MKM Pottery Tools handrollers has practically doubled. You can tell the difference… the clean new ones vs. the dusty loved ones… all of them just waiting to make some new impressions!!!

And while many of us… ME… are still working on our taxes…
it looks like Pam has been busy in the kitchen! And then sharing her “Salted Caramel Chocolate Oreo Pie.” It sure sounds good… I like every word in the title!!! And it looks pretty darn tasty in a handmade & stamped pie plate too!

So nice to see the star magnolia trees blooming again. One of my favorites every year. Such shame they only stick around for a short time.

Good thing there are “always” more where that come from!
Plenty of mugs for another MUGSHOT MONDAY…
and a LOT happier than Matthew’s broken one!!!