I feel like I haven't taken a breath since some time in November. I'm completely unprepared for the holidays, but I am prepared for my last show of the year the Brandywine Festival of the Arts this weekend. I have what is my last kiln load of the year cooling now. Tonight I will get everything packed and tomorrow is setup. On Monday I plan on doing basically nothing for a whole day, just rest. Anyone who knows me is laughing at that statement as I'm very bad at just sitting still.
I have been meaning to make more of these bird on a wire mugs for months, but just never got around to it. Also the last of the Hannukah dishes in here and then a whole lot of crabs since I was nearly out of all things crabs.
The trees are fantastic!! I am going to need to drill a few holes where glaze ran on the smaller tree, but it's so awesome anyway. I'm experimenting with some new crab things in this kiln to satisfy the people who feel the need to tell me that Maryland crabs are blue and not red. I'm not going to stop making the red crabs, but wanted to have an alternative. I think I'm narrowing in on an option.
This kiln is a mismatch of things as I am trying to get things ready for shows. I generally like to glaze all things in the same color at the same time, but having the right pieces for shows seemed more prudent so I'vebeen doing things in batches. This has the last of the camping things I made a while ago and the first of the lavender I made after I scoured the studio plus a few things in between. Home stretch for the holidays now.