You gotta love the crunchy “glazed” patina on the bricks within the soda kiln. Sure, the bricks might be slowly disintegrating due to the corrosive soda mixture that we insert during the firing… but it sure does make some really cool bricks!!!

An empty soda kiln last night…
waiting to be packed with shelves, posts & POTS!!!
So much potential… waiting to be fulfilled…

It was pretty late last night when I finally finished glazing in my studio… lots of pots, lots of wadding! So I packed both sides of my studio cart and put some masking tape “seat belts” on it so none of the pots would jump off as I rolled everything downstairs on the rickety freight elevator!

As though I didn’t already have plenty still to glaze for tonight’s soda kiln loading… let’s just toss in a few MORE from this last minute bisque kiln full. More is more, right?!

Blue skies & gridded girders making geodesic geometry in the Crystal Gardens at Navy Pier.

Trying to stay productive… stamps are “filled” with tenmoku glaze… and just added a liner glaze too! Still needing a little clean-up around the rims… and then a lot of wadding for the soda kiln. I’m scheduled to load Friday night… and I still have a LOT of glazing to do. Eyes on the prize!!!

Doing a little glaze inlay into the stamped impressions on a bunch of mugs! I’m filling the stamps with a tenmoku glaze, and then wiping off the “top” surface so the glaze only stays in the texture impressions.

Looks like I’ve got more than a little glazing to do tonight… ugh… not my favorite part of the process! But I do LOVE the results… so I guess it’s worth it?!

Early morning light working its way through the Ferris wheel & carousel at Navy Pier today… streaming through the rides of Pier Park.

Pastel clouds hovering over the lake… grabbing little glimpses of color as the sun prepares for its big reveal with reflections shimmering on the lakefront.