i like to do drawings

It's been so hot here in Florida and since my studio lives in the garage for now... woooooo weeeeeeee hot. So i've taken to slowing down some more (didn't think that was possible eh?)I went to the used bookstore and got the North American Animals encyclopedia.

Here are some of the marine life

it's that time again

3am. I'm starting to get used to it, I used to loathe it.
I hope Hunter stops wanting to eat at 3am soon.

Anyway, good thing about it is that I get quiet read blogs time and I found a new one that I love!

http://melanie-sherman.blogspot.com/

amazing stuff over there!

new photos

I like how the whales are evolving.

My local clay supplier was out of the standard dark brown (until august..booooo) so I'm using highwater red something or another. I can hardly wait to get the dark brown back!!

kiln shenanigans

Uhhhh.... So really, I'm a novice at kilns. In grad school, I wasn't a ceramics major and the tech did all the firing. I got a small manual kiln right out of gradschool... and then decided to invest in an automatic. I just push some pretty buttons and whamo- stuff is fired.


I began a glaze firing at 6am, everything was going great. At 10am I left for gymboree and the kiln was at 1100 and some degrees. When I came home at 1pm the kiln was off due to a power failure. Not sure why that happened.... :/ and it was at 1000 and some degrees, so i'm not sure when it shut off or what that will do to my glazes. Guess we'll find out late late tonight. I'm slightly nervous, but what can you do.

I need to figure out why the kiln shut off...


I have my best load ever in there. I decided to really take a boat load of time on each piece. The etchings have really come together.


I snapped 2 picture before firing, I should have taken a few more just to document the process and have some sort of visual reference in case they die in the glaze firing.





wish me luck!!

On a Hunter note, he LOVES music Gymboree and banging on bongos. Hilarious and I should post a video soon. :)

Atlantic Beach Art Walk

6 months after having my son, I'm joining our local art walk. I'll be showing at the natural food store- Turtle Island Foods. (363 Atlantic Blvd)

I'm pretty excited because I love their food, and food and handmade goodness make a decent pairing. Jake is looking forward to it as well because they have live music and organic beer. :) Beer also makes everything better.

come visit! June 17th 5-9pm.

fetish ghost clear cone 6 glaze

I had been looking for a cone 6 clear glaze, I know... doesn't seem that hard but nothing I mixed seemed to be "the one". Well I was reading Fetish Ghosts blog (which i always refer to as fetish goat... don't ask)

anyway his cone 6 clear liner is damn near perfect. LOVE IT!!!

Thank you for posting some of your glazes on your blog.

20 G-200 Feldspar
20 Ferro Frit 3134
15 Wollastonite
20 EPK
6 Talc
19 Silica

It doesn't run, stays in place, great for wax resisting, not cloudy... love it.

DHR the answer to your (my) problems

I've been stalled out in making anything, so if I can't share about my work, I'll boast about my husband.


He built this site www.dirtyhippieradio.com

not dirty or filled with hippies

It's just a rad internet radio station with great talent who aren't signed up with a major label. The bands (so far 90ish) have great live shows and in my opinion are refreshing compared to what is on the am/fm.

Anyway, I was playing with hunter and needed music.

I don't have much on my itunes so that was crossed off of the list
next I thought Pandora!!! quickly crossed that off because I can't deal with the commercials

then it dawned on me, DHR was the answer and we happily grooved along.