A sweet little Saturday bouquet. A tiny little bud vase filled with fragrant Lily-Of-The-Valley fresh from my garden. Stamped & soda-fired… ready to brighten your day!

Sharing the fun, spreading some news… sending out some new photo postcards from The Postcard Club! Always fun to connect with friends “for no reason” except to say “Hi” through snail mail. Keeping it old-school with my friends… and groovy new postcards every three months!

Gotta love some well-used pottery.
A dish drainer full of handmade functional pottery…
some new, some vintage, all loved.
Thanks for sharing Rosene & Gerry!

Not as colorful as their fellow windowsill orchids, but these sweet dendrobium orchids are finally re-blooming too! Not to be outdone by their showier phalaneopsis friends! Again, green thumb “neglect” with a stamped & soda-fired flowerpot seems to be the secret!

Last week in my Beginning Wheelthrowing class, we threw larger bowls. And then last night, we did a bit of stamping on the same larger bowl demo piece. My students have already made bowls & made their own stamps… now they just need to put it all together!

Drama in the skies! Some wonderful clouds blowing through the City this morning. A bit of a headwind for the first half… before I did a quick turn-around as it started to drizzle a little down by Ohio Street Beach. I know I won’t “melt” in a little drizzle… but you never know if it’s going to turn into a sudden Spring deluge! The clouds were coming in quick… so I pedaled home a little quicker!

Today I did a bit of stamping… surprise, surprise… and added a row of textured fun to the oversized flower pot I made in my ADVANCED WHEELTHROWING class last night. Next up… trimming, flashing slip and a water drip tray!

Well lookie here… there’s a lot of great potters getting together to put on a brand new NORTHERN ILLINOIS POTTERY TOUR! Many of them I already know as “My Talented Friends”… the others I can’t wait to add to that list! So many potters, so many pots, so much talent all in one Pottery Tour. Going virtual this year June 18-20th… but looking forward to a full on-location Pottery Tour in 2022. More details to come… and check us out at www.northernilpotterytour.com

Celebrating a little TEXTURE TUESDAY with a wonderful cement-block carving I found along the lakefront. In Chicago, a lot of the shoreline is protected by oversized cement blocks that also make seating areas. This block has been carved with some traditional imagery… no idea how long something like this would take?!

Also last night in class, one of my students got one of her plates back from the glaze kiln… after a visit on “The Show-Off Shelves” at Lillstreet! We were all enamored with Kim’s beautiful stamping & throwing… but even more, that stunning combination of glazes and how they work in all the right places!!! Well done Kimberly – so beautiful!!! Now you need to make MORE of these beauties!!!