got it

O.K. I figured out how to get the etsy link on here.  Still can't figure out what's going on with the archives though.

acorn pottery on etsy.com

Well I finally got a few items on etsy.  I obsessed over the quality of my photographs and decided to just go with the best I can do right now.  It takes a lot of time to list, but maybe that's because I'm inexperienced.  I couldn't help but think, as I was spending hours yesterday taking photos and more hours today listing items, of how this process was cutting into my production time.  Anyway, here's pictures of what I put on etsy so far:

By the way, if you're wondering what happened to my archives, I'm wondering that too.  I was playing around trying to get a link to etsy on the blog and the archives disappeared.  I don't know that that's such a terrible thing, but it's annoying to know one keystroke can wreak such havoc and not be able to figure out how to un-havoc it.

honey pots

Time to make more honey pots- I'm all out and I've had some requests.  Now that I have nailed a calendar to the wall next to my wheel I might be better able to handle planning what needs to be done when. Uh, verses the little scraps of paper fluttering around my work table which was my previous mode of operation.  Here are some newly made honey pots-

Some of these will be glazed in a yellow butter satin, and I think I might use my clear glaze with a little iron oxide and/or rutile added for the rest.  Maybe make the bird a contrasting color on some.

  I also made a few of these flying nun baskets, mainly because of a request to make one in all dark glazes.  To me this kind of disappointing because it nullifies the reason I came up with the name for these baskets.  When I first started making this form the nun's habit came to mind so I've always used a whitish glaze on the handle and habit part.  I guess I'll get over it.  And if you're too young to know about the flying nun try googling it along with "Sally Fields".
On another subject, I follow the blogs of potters from various areas besides the U.S.  One, living in Japan, tells of his recent experience with the earthquake. Fortunately, his family made it through unharmed.  Somehow his account of how it happened to him seemed much more real than what I watch on the news or read in the paper.  When I went down to the levee last Saturday to gawk at the swollen Ohio river, which was high enough to do damage here and there but nothing like 2004, I caught myself thinking about having fun picking though all the neat driftwood that will be left behind.  Then I remembered all the wreckage that is left behind in Japan.

high water

The market is closed Saturday, March 12 due to threat of high water.  Many of us were able to get into the building yesterday to remove our items.  Maybe we didn't need to, but I feel a little more secure having moved out most of my stuff, and put the rest on higher shelves.
I was sent this link from the Marietta Chamber of Commerce:
http://www.bhgis.org/flood/
It has a map you can check out to see what parts of Marietta flood at different river levels- click on the river level you are interested in and it will show on the map.  If you want to check a specific address you will need to use the same one 911 has and type in all caps.

empty bowls fundraiser

While I was getting the studio back in habitable shape Monday I also had a glaze firing going.  Unloaded it Tuesday.  Some more finials, which I'm really liking, some vases, and most of it was the rest of the bowls for the Empty Bowls project.  This will be held this month on the 26th at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Marietta.  Here's a couple pictures of the bowls- one with cat interference.                                                      


Red, the cat.  Red's daily movements are mostly divided into two catagories:  Closely monitoring his human's every movement, or sleep.



Red-free bowls. 

                                                                                                        

getting organized

I was working all last week on a little studio improvement project.  Actually I thought it would take two days, but you know how that goes.  Had help from my advisory committee (husband and son).  My son also did the hammer drilling on the cement blocks.  I'm glad I didn't try to take that part of the job on myself after seeing the dust and debris flying.  Here's how it looks-

    I know this is not exciting to anyone else but this gives me a lot more storage, better height to use scales, and frees up some floor area.  I didn't have a good place for my glaze test tiles before and now I have them up on the pegboard safely out of the way but easy to see.- No more broken tiles!  Underneath the bottom shelf is enough space for my 5 gal. glaze buckets.  What I was using before in this corner was a big 50's linoleum topped table. It was in the house when we bought it.  Kind of neat, but it took up a lot of space without giving me practical storage.  Yesterday I finally got everything put back together so I'm ready to get back to making pots.