In just 11 days from now, I’ll be selling my wares at The Handmade Market in downtown Raleigh. This show is huge – in a really good way. There is a talented and diverse group of vendors, and the charity donation drive is raising money for Urban Ministries of Wake County. If my memory serves me correctly, it was the first event at which I ever sold pottery. I was quite novice, and my pieces would have made excellent paperweights…

My first course in hand building is over now, although I’m still finishing up several pieces over at Pullen Arts Center. I’ve only ever used the wheel, tending to think hand building wouldn’t interest me, but I have to admit that I really enjoy it. Pressing texture into the clay is much easier with a rolling pin, which doesn’t work so well on a round pot. It also is easier on my shoulder, which has chronic pain and is agitated…

Fall is coming, which means some shows are as well… or at least the applications to be in these shows! This weekend I plan on doing a glaze firing. Here is the batch up to this point. on the wheel handles waiting to be attached altered and ready to dry holes added when leather hard drying on the freezer bisque fired waxing the base waiting to be glazed