Dream Pot

I call this pot "Dream Pot".  This was a pot I made after I had a dream about it.  It was one of those dreams that I woke up from and had to make a sketch so I wouldn't forget how it looked.  It took me several days of pondering to figure out how make it.

What I finally came up with was a hand building technique.  I rolled out long slabs of clay with the slab roller(one of my favorite pieces of equipment).  I took a blown up balloon and secured it to a tall cardboard tube(about 12" diameter).  I placed each long slab of clay over the balloon and let the ends drape and fold like they wanted to.  This pot totally did its own thing.  I added a saucer shape to the bottom for stability.  Then the whole thing dried upside down for several days when I could take it off the balloon.  Then I propped up the sides just to prevent them from sagging.  After it dried for like 4 weeks, I have the courage to try and move it to the kiln.  It fired slowly in a bisque fire for 12 hours.  Glazing was done pouring glaze inside and out and then another firing.  I held my breath the whole time(well, it felt like it).

This piece now has a new home with  someone else.  It was sold at the GHAA gallery in Helen, Ga.  I just found out today that it had been sold.  I was happy that someone will be able to love it in their home as much as I loved making it.

Almost international

I had a crazy day yesterday.  It started out great.  We drove up to Helen to GHAA for the official ribbon cutting of the gallery there.  Lunch was served and we all stood behind the ribbon for picture taking.  Which was all fine!  The trip home was fine.  Since it was still early in the afternoon I thought I would work on the little creek pond in the garden.  I had a new pump to install.

Well, of course the old tubing didn't fit the new outlet on the new pump!  So I take the pump over to my sweet husband in his shop and said, "Dear, can you help me?"  He drops what he's doing and proceeds to get out pipe fittings and stuff I don't even know what it is and rigs something up.  I take it back to the garden and it still doesn't fit.  I had to pull out the tubing(which was what I was trying to avoid) and take it and the pump back to the shop and say again, "Dear, can you help me?". We get it fixed up and I go back the garden and, Yes!!, it fits!!  Of course, I can't get the tubing back in the same place it was but, oh well, at least it's running now.

My little hand made creek with copper irises
growing in the stream

It flows into this little pond.  I have
blue flag irises, pickeral weed and water lily
in the water

Then I come inside and check my computer and I have a sale!  Yipee,  And I look at the the state it's going to and it's VI.  I'm thinking Virginia and then realize, no, that's not Virginia but Virgin Islands!  I know, I know, that's a US territory but I've never sent anything outside the continent.  I did ship to Alaska last year but wow, I'm psyched about VI.

So I hear thunder in the distance which is good because we need some rain.  I getting off now.

Will the wind ever stop?!

The wind has been blowing for what seems like days.  We had a bad storm last night with severe t-storms and sheets of rain falling.  Of course, it was in the middle of the night so I got no sleep.  I kept waiting and listening for the tornado I just knew was coming.  It didn't.  Today was cool and 10-20 mph winds all day.  I had errands to run and just the time to go to the car and go inside the store was enough to make my head feel like it will explode.

soap pump dispenser in
blue gray and brown

Dog treat jar with bone and pulled handle lid

Dog treat jar with cork lid and tumbled rock knob


On a positive note, I did get my kiln unloaded over the weekend, Yay!!  Mostly good stuff.  One piece that will have to be reglazed but the pieces I was counting on came out fine.  A cute little soap pump and dog treat jars came out really nicely.

I did some throwing yesterday and Thursday will be a sculpture day.  I plan on making some more of my magnolias.  We'll be in Helen at the GHAA gallery to help with some landscaping and also demonstrating.
It'll be nice to see old friends there.

I also put this garden treasury together.  In my spare time,LOL!

Moving day in the mountains

Yesterday was spent helping move shelves, display boxes and cases from the Heritage center in Tallulah Falls to the new location in Helen.  It's amazing the amount of work we got done.  But then we are a determined group.  My big red Ford F250 was loaded to the max.  We made it to the new location in one piece even if we did take it slow!  This will be a new set up for the Georgia Heritage Arts Association.  I'm really excited about it.

This Sunday we'll go and start setting some of our things up.  I'll probably have to consolidate to a smaller area but that just means I'll be more selective.  So, hopefully, Jaymi will be ready to open by Oct 28.

I'm making progress on open house for the studio.  I've got an ad coming out in the Hometown Neighbor magazine with all the details, Nov. 26 and 27.  We doing the Black Friday thing as well as Saturday.  I've got all the post cards ready to go out to all my mailing list people.  So, Christmas shoppers, bring it on!!