Here we go, month 3 is marching forward, week 2 is quickly here. I am piling up enough tiles to fire soon. Mark is working on a gas fir...

 I am back at it playing with some tiles I had left over from a back splash I just finished. The back splash turned out well, but as with...

On Saturday we had a great workshop at the school with Hal and Eleanor Pugh from New Salem Pottery.  It was very informal, with a lot of go...

 How well do we think we will remember something? There are many times when I am working on tiles that I think I will remember how I appl...

Out of many busy weeks comes some tiles. Slat kiln is loaded at school. Firing starts at 5 am on Monday, join me. Mor...

 Yes, there is mud. But, not the good kind, not the kind that we like to toss on the wheel. There is the slippery mud. The good old Ca...

 we don't really have to worry about winter. We are the people who like to watch winter on the news. Oh, look, we like to say smugly t...

The weather decided that I needed a few days off from school. I want to thank the weather for that. I spent today rolling out some blank...

 There are pots spinning on the wheel over here. Mark is much busier in our studio than I am. I have headed back to school, trying to keep...

 When I started teaching this summer the students were only firing their work cone 6. In and out of the electric kilns. We have a salt ki...

 Yesterday was the last day we had to get the kiln loaded and fired in time for the show this weekend. It was cold yesterday, with no wi...

  the ring that ran full circle around it was red and bright, soon the circle disappeared as a darkness began to take small bites out of t...