It's taking a very long time to get the house in order today. I was working on the living room furniture earlier. Willem helped me sort things out yesterday, but there was still too much furniture in there. Trevor took apart the table and took it and the tall chairs to the lane so I can take them to Maryjane tomorrow. He put the recliner on the ( Read more... )

I've been out in the greenhouse going through the boxes of clay trimmings Joanne gave me. She lost one of her trimming tools, a holder for the pots on the wheel. I can't remember the name of the device at the moment, though ( Read more... )

I don't have enough for a whole load yet, but I put about nine bowls in the kiln, preparing for the bisque run. I have the pots all on the bottom of the kiln and ready for the shelf to be put in.

I did try to trim the bowls, but the bottoms were still too wet, so I put new disks on top of them and flipped them over. I rounded them off a bit, too, then put them to dry on the sunroom shelves again ( Read more... )

My dear son made me a lovely necklace tonight. I told him where my jewelry making stuff was and he got to work creating some earrings. He enjoyed doing that.

He also made two cups on the pottery wheel. He is very careful with the way he works with his hands. I'm so impressed with him, as usual!

Abe's going to live with us I believe! Yippee

The plumbers are busy busy making this a house with running hot and cold water! They have found another break in the pipe upstairs in the bathroom and have fixed it up ( Read more... )

I got up at 7 to feed the deer. I filled the bowls, checked the outdoor camera...125 photos! I sat in my chair at the door till 10, then went upstairs to finish sleeping ( Read more... )

I watered down my glaze too much so I may be running this whole load in vain. I unloaded it, wiped them all down, waxed the bottoms and glazed them with the same green turq glossy glaze I've been using for my whole whatever this whole thing is ( Read more... )

Today the sun came out! I was in a lot of pain today ( Read more... )

Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 ( Read more... )