Pots from Ms. B

Small jar for anything you like.
Sugar, salt, sweetener, dreams. 

the lid

 

Birdhouse

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Just checking in

In the winter months we are heating our water, our spaces and working on tiles and pots for the upcoming year.
If you want to stop in the gallery be sure to call or email us that you are coming.
We would be happy to have you stop in.
If we don't answer the phone, thanks spammers, leave us a message and we will call you back.
It's best to let us know a day in advance.
Otherwise we are closed except some Saturdays.
But, listen we have seen folks show up in the snow and opened up for them.
So if you are out try the driveway and come on down.
M

Ms. B rings in the last firing

 Thank you for following, reading, encouraging, and being a part of our clay family for yet another year.
As 2016 goes out we look forward to 2017.
We hope your holidays are merry and bright.
M&M

Do you want to take a wee look?

 Top peep hole- cone 9 down and cone 10 just bent.

 Top of the kiln.

 Door is coming down.

promise....

This is what happens when you

get a few days in the studio.

Just need to add some color and a bit of heat.
Yeah, no hiding back there!
Get to work!
M

And, when she's good...

she's very, very good.
There is a learning curve with any kiln and I think that we are back on the correct path with this one.
Much happier.

Let's do it again!

October brings color

 I was looking out the back window that faces the hill behind us and noticed the bits of color in the trees. I can see the season of fall is here.
This is the time of year that I tell myself to look at the trees everyday.
It doesn't take long for those bits of color to blow into burst of color.

The kiln is out and has been sorted. Here, there and everywhere.
We have filled the shop,set some aside and sent some off to Southern Pines.
We are tossing them out there like fallen leaves to land in new homes.

 One of these birdhouses has left the coop already to fly to Texas to join the iron red birdhouse from the firing before this one. The birdhouses have been a fun addition to the other pots.
I think that Mark has settled on this loop as a good way to hang them. We  found that some of the ways we finished the tops made for some interesting and clever way to fix them for hanging. 

 There are always mugs.

We did get some rain last weekend and more this weekend.
From the rain came all sorts of fungus coming up in the yard or planters.
This one  was covered with rain drops making the drops look like they were beads.

We are back at work making tiles, soap dishes, and maybe more birdhouses.
More to come.

 

Cheers!
M

About those birdhouses

They look fabulous!
They are ready to hang.
Come on over.
M