It was a beautiful day to get outside to play! The sun was out and the temperature actually hit 50-degrees!!! I decided to go for a nice long hike through Moraine Hills State Park. I was surprised by the amount of snow they still had, but was happy to be shedding layers of clothes as the day went on. Some beautiful scenery, slushy paths and a few sandhill cranes along the way!

Another example of cool marbled clay after trimming! Lots of layers of colored clay all mixed together!!! Works well as long as all of your clay bodies have the same shrinkage rate!

Another marbled clay class demo… this time with white porcelain & green-stained porcelain! Looking a little blurry after throwing, but as I trimmed the interior & exterior “skin” away you can see the layers & marbled effects. Trimming with my DiamondCore Tools made it easier with their T2 Arc Trimming Tool that has a great curved blade to get inside with ease… worked outside too!

Did some trimming of my marbled clay pieces from class last week. When you’re done throwing, the outer skin is all kinda blurred from the clays mixing & blending while throwing. But when you trim off the exterior surface, the crisp marbled effect reveals itself in striking ways!

Spent the afternoon teaching a soda-firing class subbing for Levi today. It was a great group, but it was kinda killing me to see bright blue skies through the studio skylights… mocking me to go play outside! Luckily, we all got to “celebrate” NATIONAL OREO COOKIE DAY with single serving packets that I brought for them to take home!!!

The sun is shining again… the ice is melting again… and inside I’m ice-dyeing more t-shirts AGAIN! More colorful “magic” happening while the ice melts and the colors seep into the shirts!

Feels like Spring is coming soon… but we still have a lot of ice to melt away!!! Some really cool ice “sculptures” happening in my back courtyard.

I think there’s still stairs under there somewhere?!

Love the morning sun shining in on Allison’s mug… looks like Spring sunshine to me!!! This is one of my “wheelthrown-handbulit-combo” mugs… which I’m in the process of making more of right now!!! Thanks for sharing your morning ritual with us Allison!

With sun streaming through my dining room window, this sweetie just decided to open up today! A nice white Spring Cactus flowering right on time… as I’m more than ready for SPRING!!!

Today at Noon CST… I will be posting three sets of bowls on my Fire When Ready Pottery Facebook page! The first person to claim with “MINE” in the Comment section on Facebook will get the set of bowls! Full details about each set, dimension, prices, etc. on Facebook at noon! It’s that easy!

Click here to go to my Fire When Ready Pottery Facebook page!

BOWL SET A –

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