Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
A Chicago potter’s somewhat slanted view of clay & play
Categories: sunrise

Another beautiful start to another beautiful day!

Categories: food, friends

Last night in class we had an amazing assortment of OREO cookies from China. Unique flavors & combos… like sesame, lavender, grape, peach, raspberry, matcha & birthday cake. Like most “imported” OREOs, they seemed a bit drier, crisper, “flour-ier” & not nearly as sweet & sugary! The sesame one was almost buttery & savory?! And as always… matcha is a “hit or miss” flavor! Special thanks to Tiffany for this gift of OREOs… including the Birthday flavor!!! – IFKYK

Categories: classes, tools

Last night in class, we broke out the new 10” decorating disk from MKM POTTERY TOOLS. Darcy was trying to draw a mandala pattern & wanted to space things out perfectly. The decorating disk made it so easy… and the new 10” size was perfect for decorating her pie plate!

Sharing my DiamondCore Carving Tools helped make the carving fun too!!!

Categories: bike, sunrise

Methinks there’s supposed to be a sunrise back there in those clouds somewhere?!…
apparently not today.

Categories: bowls, food, holiday

Melts in your mouth, not in your hands! And one of my favorite holidays…
celebrating NATIONAL M&Ms DAY!!!

Categories: Chicago, sunrise

Does it get any better than this???

Categories: Chicago, sunrise

Bigger skyshows need bigger pictures!!!

Categories: bike, sunrise

This morning started out nice… changed to good… then great… then AMAZING!!!
The colors, the clouds… all sweeping across the sky!!! It was tough to pedal & appreciate the sunrise at the same time. So I didn’t… I stopped, relaxed & marveled in the glorious sunrise!

And let me just be so bold…
and say that I think this might be my favorite sunrise of the entire year!!!
Yep, top THIS Mother Nature!!! Bring it on!!!

Categories: family, The Ghouls Collection

So here’s my sister Jen’s GHOULS COLLECTION. She might have one of the largest collections out there… although she is missing a couple. Can anyone spot the missing Ghouls??? It’s a shame they’re all Limited Editions!!!

And more importantly… does ANYONE out there have all of them???
If so, send me a photo of them on display!!! – gary@firewhenreadypottery.com

Categories: bowls, surface decoration

So the bowls that I made with my class this week have been “living under plastic” in my studio… and I finally got around to doing a little sumthin’-sumthin’ with them. Sure, I coulda left them as they were with their simple altered rims… but you know I’m a MORE IS MORE kinda guy! So I added a little more…