#80

 I haven’t been blogging for a while because I haven’t been doing anything worth talking about.  I’ve started to fire the work from the last blog post, but I’ve blown up a few in the kiln.  This doesn’t make me too happy; I have about 5 out of 10 left from these last ones I threw.   I have been working in the garden a little bit.  I planted some herbs, flowers, and a couple Japanese eggplants.  It’s been really wet around here for the last week or so, I’m going to wait till it dries out and then plant our seeds directly in the garden and see what happens.  Today I’m going to get some more clay and make some more work for this new(ish) project I have, and I’m going to have dinner with Keturah at our favorite Pho place up in okc.

Accoutremon

The other day we ordered some items to accessorize our pottery, and 

it came in!  We ordered some honey dippers

 

and some lotion/soap pumps.

We have already made some honey pots and just needed these dippers to complete the look.  Here are a few of our newly adorned honey pots.  Look for them in our Etsy Store!

The soap/lotion pumps will be used in future bottles.  We couldn’t make them in advanced like the honey dippers because we didn’t know what size to make the opening on top.  Now that we do I’ve made a few soap bottles, so now we are waiting to see if I made the openings big enough.  The clay we are using shrinks about fifteen percent from the throwing stage to the finished product.  I’m sure there’s some sort of maths that would help us know what size to make them but I like to fly by the seat of my potters wheel.  So we will see how it goes.  Today was a half day in the studio, we went to pick up more clay from the City, and had some good Pho.  Keturah has a book discussion to go to tonight, but I will be back in the studio after dinner to finish up a few things before calling it a night.  Tomorrow will be a full day in the studio, then we both have classes to go to in the evening.  And Wednesday we are heading down to Dallas to go to the aquarium and hang out with some good friends!