Busy Christmas

It has been a very busy time of year so it's a good feeling to be able to get a little bit of work done. I have 3 events I'll be doing next year so I'll share some pictures as I design mugs for each event.
A very Merry Christmas and a wonderful Holiday season to all!

Mugs

A new style of mugs from what I normally make. I liked throwing them but I'm not sure about the handles yet. The curl at the bottom is what I'm not sure of on the handle. I'll see what it looks like when I glaze it.

More Decals

My favorite. I just wanted to share. I see all kinds of places I can use this type of decal in my claywork.

I used Ceramic Decal Printing. I'll be using them again.

Tumblers and decals - fun to test!

While a good portion of my mugs taught me a lesson about trying to rush the drying process with handles cracking off, the tumblers turned out better than I thought they would.

I'm also pleased with my first decal tests from my own photography although I really need to find a better font and I need to remove the background from the dogs.

They are in the decal firing right now so we'll see how they turn out in the morning.

25 lbs of clay

I might have gotten a little carried away with size. Only 8 mugs, although some look like bowls, and 3 large-ish bowl and I went through 25lbs of B-mix. Hmmm.

When The Green Glob-lins Strike

I was so looking forward to a new batch of green glazed pottery. I love this glaze but you really have to be careful with not too hot and not too thick. Unfortunately I did both. I can't bring myself to hammer them since I really like the rest of the pot, just not the foot.

Maybe I need to start a Penguin Pot series. These look just like the roll of fat at the bottoms of a penguin when they are holding an egg.

I am finally getting to focus on working on my pottery again after too much time on the tech side of things. I have my website pretty much complete, my photography site complete and my Etsy store up to date now.

So here are a few of my latest from the kiln.

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Updated website & a new blog

I have recently finished updating my New Beginnings Pottery Website and thought I would use this blog to keep everyone updated with some of my new pottery here. Below are thumbnails of what I have on the Etsy store but I'll have just a few and my tests in the future.