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

Early morning sun streaming through my dining room windows! Spreading light upon lots of pottery hoping to find new homes this weekend! It’s the perfect weekend to finish your holiday gift shopping!!! C’mon over… 10:00am-6:00pm today & tomorrow!

Categories: holiday, ornaments

Some holiday festive fun fresh out of the kiln.
New textured star ornaments with colors on one side & metallic shine on the other!

Categories: platters, stamped

Fresh from the kiln… ready for this weekend!!!

Categories: kiln firing

Earlier today… just in time… unloading tonight!!! More new pieces & new Christmas trees with pierced holes for this weekend’s SECOND HOLIDAY HOME SHOW!!!

Categories: flowers, mugs

Sometimes a mug doesn’t need coffee or tea… they work pretty darn good as a vase too!!! I’ve already replenished the shelves and will have over 100 mug/vases for this weekend’s SECOND HOLIDAY HOME SHOW!!! Kinda the perfect gift… whether it’s for coffee, tea or flowers?!!!

Categories: art fair, mugs, soda-fired, stamped

Looks like Kristen has quite the mug collection going here! If you need to start your own collection… or add a few more to what you already have?… don’t forget that this weekend is my SECOND HOLIDAY HOME SHOW. Open both days from 10:00am-6:00pm and I’ve replenished so I’ll have over a hundred mugs on the shelves to choose from again!!!

Categories: handbuilding, soda-fired, stamped, textures

Sometimes the perfect holiday gift needs an extra special box to put it in? Or sometimes that special box IS the gift?!!! I’ve got some special soda-fired boxes ready for this weekend’s SECOND HOLIDAY HOME SHOW All lidded & ready to go… some with compartments inside too!!!

See what they looked like before & after soda-firing!

Categories: flower pots, garden, mugs, pottery

The perfect gift for those plant lovers on your holiday shopping list – NEW for this weekend’s SECOND HOLIDAY HOME SHOW!!! I’ve selected a few of my pottery pieces and planted them up with some houseplants… all ready to go! The perfect gift to brighten someone’s house for years to come. As long as they splash a bit of water now & again… and don’t worry, they all have drainage holes too!

Categories: holiday, kiln firing, process, production

Well look at me… ahead of schedule?!
It’s only Wednesday and my last kiln is already glazed & loaded…
and I don’t even need these trees until Saturday
for my SECOND HOLIDAY HOME SHOW! Crazy, right!

Replenishing my Christmas Trees with a bunch of new ones with holes & no bottoms… so you can light ‘em up with tea lights, votive candles or LED lights. Just in time to make the season more festive!!!

Categories: bike, sunrise

Oh, what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day… The colors were pretty glorious this morning & the temps a few degrees warmer than the last week. It felt great to have a beautiful bike ride with a beautiful sunrise this morning… with one less layer than usual!