It's my birthday
And to celebrate I'm giving 20% off purchases in my Etsy store. Just use coupon code OHLORDY40. Now off to enjoy the rest of my birthday.
Here is to health, gym musings around the studio.
Six months ago I started going to the gym. I finally had enough of feeling bad, not liking what I saw in the mirror, having to take meds...
Lessons learned.
Ah the kiln school of hard knocks. Every kiln firing is a learning situation, whether it's how to fire it more efficiently or where to...
New day, new glaze.
A new day a new kiln load and new glaze. Today I fire off the little gas reduction kiln to play with Malcolm Davis carbon trap shino....
Soda, not just for drinking.
Two years ago I became fascinated with the atmospheric firing style known as soda firing. So I bought a large kiln from a pottery studio...
Support the living artists, dead ones are already worm food.
As we move into the holiday season and shopping sprees that push the big corporations into the black. Don't forget about the little guy,...
Potter gets a pedicure and other random musings.
Some days you get surprised by a request, "Honey, I want to take you for a pedicure and a manicure" What????? Um so um, how do I respond....
Spraying statements
Say hello to my little friend, blue spray paint. My friend Ira Hill was traveling through Mississippi on his American Expressions tour...
Keep it clean.
When I started tossing mud around again a few years ago I just would kind of place a towel over my lap and go to town. When I was...
The elegance in the grotesque.
Five years ago, I was gifted with the chance to attend a workshop taught by Randy Brodnax. I was stuck and needing a push and my wife...
