Made some time to do some of my slab pots with textured paper gift wrap I bought several years ago. It was too pretty to use but not to immortalize in clay. Sandi Pieranatozzi had some textured paper samples and I realized I had a use for that paper! I can't wait to glaze them with the fiesta colors.

Having plenty of work is an amazing thing! BUT, doesn't leave much time for blogging or making inspired work from the Sandi and Neil workshop I just attended last week. http://sandiandneil.com/gallery/ Have to check out New Day Pottery for those details. Their glazes and clay is right in line with my fiesta work and I can't wait to use some of their techniques!

My first published piece

A few months ago I took advantage of an invitation to try for a spot in 500 Racu by Lark books. I entered 2 pieces of the total 7-8 total successful pieces I made at WildAcres last summer. Last week I got a letter announcing that one of the pieces had been ACCEPTED. This particular piece was a last minute piece inspired by a piece made by our teacher Sylvia Capola. I added my few touches and used the featured naked racu technique she was teaching. There is always an element of luck with racu on my part and I guess I lucked out with this one.

1st pots in studio

Threw my first pots in my new studio today! We will see how long they take to get leather hard since the air conditioner worked over time and peed all over the floor. Rather humid here in Pfafftown!

Moving team minus 2 Click on the picture to link to Flickr where you can see the photo stream.

Moving team minus 2
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I'm in!

WOW! I can't believe I've actually moved to Pfafftown. It is so wonderful to be able to be in civilization in 5 minutes or less! It has been pretty crazy sorting all my things though. There was a lot of clean up and taking down of the previous owners decorating preferences. I have lots of things I want to do, of course, but getting back to work has worked its way up to the top of the list. Check out the images at my flickr site in the above post. Still figuring this thing out, but it gets the job done!