Speaking of Pitchers.

Here's a new one...I know I said this glaze was too dark...but there's something about it I really like. It doesn't work on everything, but I knew it would look great on this pitcher, so I made a small batch. I figured I'd keep a bit on hand for when I made a piece that need it. The color on this one is so striking...much more in person than in my photo. I just posted it in my Etsy shop along with a green chick. The very first chick bowl with my new and improved green.

It's about 90º today and sooooooo humid. I went to buy some plants this morning and almost died in the greenhouse. At least I had the place pretty much to myself (because no one else was dumb enough to go there in this heat) and had free range over all the plants. I wanted to plant some flowers but when I came home it started to rain...and thunder. The studio is super cool thanks to the cement floors and small windows, so I did manage to get quite a bit of work done. Now I'm in an allergy medicine haze and too tired to do anything. Guess I'll spend the afternoon making garden tags...

934°F and rising.

The shelves are empty and the bisque is firing. I must admit, I'm pretty excited to unload and glaze this next batch of work. I'm going to be experimenting with some new glazes as well. I'm almost out of my dark pink glaze (that was basically a mistake and cannot be replicated) and I thought maybe I'd try another pink. Maybe more "pretty" pink than the deep, rosy, salmon-y, whatever-you-want-to-call-it, pink that I have now. I'm also still working on a new green and now that I'm officially out of my limited-time-only pale blue glaze, I'm testing out another shade of blue. My deep cobalt has been a bit too much for me lately...too harsh with the other colors. So, I'm not going to be using it as much. I could never take it away all together, I've been using it for almost 10 years!

The weather has been a bit cold. I guess we were all spoiled by the hot, sunny weather of the past few weeks. I'm thinking maybe some outside work is in store for this afternoon. I need to move some plants and now that my hostas are opening up the beds don't look so empty. Since there is no work to report, here's a look at some of my pretty tulips....

...oh, and part of the huge chunk of bedrock protruding out of my backyard. Those 3 white domes I picked up at a local surplus/junk shop a few years ago. I'm not really sure what their original purpose was, but I love them and when the sedum is growing up around them they look really cool. I'm sure they help the neighbors with thinking that I'm totally nuts. That and the fact that I'm young, I'm home all day-everyday, don't have kids, give the mailman boxes and boxes everyday, emit strange odors from the side of the house that smell like I'm burning humans, walk the dog with a hot pink apron on and white stuff smeared all the way up my arms...classy.