On Friday I posted the earthenware pots on FaceBook and by the end of the day quite a lot of it had sold. Most folks had bought this work before and some had wanted a piece but had found out about it after I had stopped making it.
I've always felt that I should be sending my best pots out into the world. So I don't know why I even started boxing those pots up last week to go into the attic. I guess it was because I am not making them any more and it seemed I may want to have a record of them. But the best thing to do was to photograph them and then send them off to be loved and enjoyed.
Some of the pots were really one offs of things that I had tried while working in low fire. This work that was painted with underglaze never really went anywhere. But it was fun to try.
I did this next style for about one month. It was what I had seen in my head from day one of starting the earthenware and was actually what I was after all along. The drawings were of flowers and also of some animals. It was really well accepted by some folks but I just did not feel like it was 'me'. So I stopped doing it and went on to the sgraffito work.
Sarah's mom has this one with the chickens in her kitchen so I get to visit it often.
Anyhow, there are still some pots left and I'll probably put them out at my next Home Sale or maybe post a few on my Etsy page.
All the pots will ship out today. I used to do drawings on all the boxes when I sold a pot. I had stopped doing that but thought it would be fun to bring it back as a Thank You to the folks who had bought a pot. It was super fun to do the drawings and maybe I'll continue to do it. I was a bit out of practice so they are a little quirky.
Saturday I loaded the soda kiln and fired it off on Sunday. I'll unload tomorrow and have some new pots to show. There were quite a few clays in this load so it will be good to see if there is anything that I'm going to stick with.
Have a good Monday folks. Thanks for checking in.