A Bowl with a Hook

Here are some yarn bowls I've been working on.  Keturah designed the hooks for me, and I cut them out of the bowls.  They look pretty good I think, I'm excited to see them finished.

Face's (oh, wait. Mugs)

I’ve been throwing some mugs to help myself get back into the groove of throwing.  I find it best to start out small and work my way up to larger projects.  I also wanted to try out a new handle design I saw recently in a Ceramics Monthly, I think I will need a lot of practice to get them to look really nice.  Handles have never been my strongest point; I usually try and get Keturah to make them for me when she can.  These mugs were thrown with three quarters of a pound of porcelain clay from a place up by Tulsa.  It’s really wet clay; I think I will have to start drying it out before I throw with it in the future.  

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!