Each year, the first weekend in December marks the beginning of a time of rest for me. I have fired my last kiln of the year. My studio and showroom have been cleaned and put in order for my Holiday Sale. And there are no deadlines to be met for orders.
So today is a perfect day for me to jump in here and try to write a blog post. I have absolutely nothing that HAS to be done today. It's a rest day for me at the gym, the groceries were bought yesterday, and the house is in fairly good order.
Lately I have been thinking about taking up blogging again. Oh, I shouldn't even mention that. No promises.
Anyhow, here I am and now I'm feeling a bit more comfortable so I'll just write some things and try not to be too judgmental about it.
Pots! Pots, god there have been plenty of pots made this year and I am really happy with where things have ended up at the end of 2015. My soda kiln has been fired 12 times now and I really, really love the surfaces that I am getting. Somewhere along the line this year I decided to start impressing and stamping the surfaces of the pots more and that took off. It's the perfect way to decorate a pot for soda firing. I also labored this year over getting a green glaze that I like. Or actually a green glaze that is somewhat consistent firing to firing. So far, no luck. But! I did, over some months, learn to really like a blue glaze that I formulated. I've always avoided blue and here I find that I actually am liking it on my pots. Wow. Who knew?
My Holiday Sale here at the Pottery went well last weekend and I've had visitors come to buy pots since. I still have one more official day of being open this coming Saturday and I'll be here by appointment up until Christmas.
So maybe that will all for now. I don't want to go crazy here. I'll pop in a few pics now and let that be it.
