You gotta love when you go to start teaching class… and you find a surprise gift on your Teacher Shelf! A crazy cool flavor combination from a foreign land! I have the best students… thanks so much Monse!

Hope you’re having a great day with family or friends… or just outside enjoying the Spring weather!!! We did a family get-together and my niece Taylor made these yummy “birds nests” with marshmallows, peanut butter & Cadbury chocolate eggs!!! Perfect on a spring green platter!!!

After about three hours last night, I finally had my pots carefully stacked in the kiln. Trying hard to get as many pots squeezed in… while not packing it too tight. There needs to be some “space” between the pots for the soda atmosphere to work its way through to “glaze” the pots with soda build-up.

So I put the bottom shelves back in the kiln… a great place to start.
Then last night I stacked my pots into the kiln… shelf by shelf… brick by brick… pot by pot.

My studio cart was filled with glazed & wadded pots… ready for a soda-firing!
We all made it safely downstairs in the rickety freight elevator.
Thanks to some masking tape “seat belts” to keep pots from bouncing off
the shelves during the journey downstairs!

Last night I was greeted with an empty kiln… full of possibilities…
ready to be filled with pots for another soda firing!

Last night was the start of a new session with my Beginner Wheel students at Lillstreet.
Great fun… and a “sweet” start with new OREO flavors imported from New Zealand.
Thanks Kaitlin!!!

Plus… I also had my first TimTam!!! Which apparently is “a thing” Down Under?
But these were extra yummy… as they were the special caramel version!!!

Early morning bisque kiln unloaded… and now it looks like “someone” has a lot of glazing & wadding to do in the next couple days! My hope is to finish it all in time to load the soda kiln this Friday night! Fingers crossed…

Finished teaching class tonight… and happy to see that my bisque kiln was finished too!!!
You gotta love seeing those four letters!!!

Driving to Lillstreet to teach class tonight… and according to my car’s dashboard, it feels like we went straight to SUMMER today! But never fear… Winter comes back Wednesday as the temps are supposed to suddenly drop forty degrees!!! Welcome to Chicago weather!!!