Shop Update!

 Spent most of yesterday photographing pots, processing photos, & writing descriptions for posts. Today I'm getting those links out there! Lota of great pots in this update! Here are a few of my faves:

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Really love this lace-embossed bowl. I briefly considered keeping it, but as you can perhaps imagine, I have a lot of bowls. Click here for the listing. 

I can picture this utensil holder in a sunny kitchen, adding a casual touch. 

I have come to prefer ikebana to conventional vases. They allow for a more naturalistic floral display -  not a stiff, tight arrangement, but more like the way the flower grow in your garden. This one has a soft shine that almost glows. 

I had fun posing these bears in and around the garden - borrowing from my husband's collection of Maine minerals to use as props. See more fat bear pics here and here. 

One last sales day - I think - before I can turn my attention again back to the making. 

Shop Update: Chubby Cats!

Remember that story I told you, about losing the wand in the burner channel during the firing? I was lucky the copper & zinc in the brass didn't do more harm. One thing it did do, though, was interact with the items in the kiln that were wearing Bauer Orange Flashing Slip. The white clay pieces turned blue (luckily just a few seashells intended to be refrigerator magnets) which they brown clay pieces achieved almost a wood-fired look. Several of the pinch-cats fell in this category. (LOL CATegory, get it?)

I've been putting a few of these critters in every firing lately. They amuse me to make, and it is not secret that I am a cat lover. I like thinking up their names & personalities, which are loosely based on the many cats I have known. As usual, most of these sold the day I listed them! I do have two left: Gaia and Woody. 

Today is packing & shipping, putting away the photography equipment (can't wait til I have a dedicated space for this. Such a pain in hte ass to put up & tear down the whole thing), posting the functional ware in the shop, and working on the Maine Pottery Tour!