The tea set is even better than it was in my head. I was a little worried when I first picked up the pot and the lid wouldn't come off, but I went around the rim and gently tugged and it popped right off after a few tugs. I will sand the lid a bit to make it a little smoother to go on and off. I'm hoping that people at the Cloisters Tea Show like it (and it sells!).

I love both of the mermaid platters too. I thought I would like the one with the blue on top better, but actually I think the one where it looks like the tail on the sand just really pops.

I tried out a few of the new Mayco stoneware glazes and I'm really happy with how they look in person. I made some test tiles so I could test out the rest.

The bunnies are also tests. I made them a while ago and missed Easter. Normally I'd do bright fun colors for bunnies, but I really wanted to try out these glazes. In retrospect I probably should have swapped these two with the Mayco glazes as these would have looked better on the spoon rests and I think those colors would have been better for the bunnies. Oh well.

I'm still working on my commission platter. I like the colors of these sunflowers than my last tests, but am not at all happy with the blue background. It came out really streaky. Going to have to think of another way to do the blue background.

Laguna 60 KY Mudworks Ocean Mist x2 Aragonite	Laguna 60 KY Mudworks Ocean Mist x2 Aragonite
Laguna 60 Midnight Ceramics Sexy Mermaid x2 on the mermaid tail. KY Mudworks Aragonite x1 all over	Laguna 60 Midnight Ceramics Sexy Mermaid x2 on the mermaid tail. KY Mudworks Seaside x2 all over
Laguna 60 KY Mudworks Hydra x2 Mayco Light Flux on the rim	Laguna 60 KY Mudworks Seaside x2 Mayco Light Flux on the rim of the one on the right
Left: Laguna 60 KY Mudworks Hydra x2 Mayco Light Flux on the rim Middle: Laguna 60 KY Mudworks Morning Glory x2 Right: Laguna 60 KY Mudworks Seaside x2	Laguna 60 Mayco Black UG wiped back. Mayco Hot Tamale, Jack o Lantern, Sunkissed, Just Froggy, Fruit of the Vine done as water colors 2167 clear all over
Laguna 60 Coyote Pam's Green x2	Laguna 60 KY Mudworks Hydra x2 Mayco Light Flux on the rim
Left: Spectrum Twilight x2 Right: Spectrum Nori Green x2	Left: Mayco Passion Flower x2 Right: Mayco Amaryllis x2
Left: Mayco Sand Dollar x2 Right: Mayco Rose Quartz x2	Left: Mayco Underglazes King's Blue, Bright yellow, Harvest Gold, Chocolate Right: Mayco Underglazes King's Blue, Bright yellow, Squash yellow, Chocolate, Leaf green, Apple green on the sunflowers Mayco Sunkissed, Teal Next Time, Jaded on the lemons 2167 Clear on top
Mayco Underglazes King's Blue, Pansy Purple, Orange, Chocolate, Leaf Green 2167 Clear on top

This weekend was all about glazing. I wanted to make sure that my tea set was ready for my next show at The Cloisters Spring Tea and Bazaar on April 29 and 30th. I spent a lot of time deciding on what color to make the tea set and if you look in the back corner I think it came out pretty awesome. I'm also loving how the mermaid platter came out.

The leaf vases are darker than I intended, I'm guessing I didn't do the stroke and coat dark enough. I still like them though.

I've got at least one more kiln to glaze before the show, maybe two.

Last week I shared my plan to do glaze chips from near empty bottles of glaze. That was only part of the plan. The other part of the plan was to put some of my dipping glazes into jars to brush on. I know that not all of them will work as brush on glazes, but I rarely dip. I know that dipping would speed up the glazing process, but I never want to make enough things in the same color at the same time that makes sense. So we'll see which of these work as brush on because I really do like a lot of the colors of these glazes.




My bag o chips.

Last year at Michael Harbridge's workshop we made marbled clay with a white and a red clay. The pot that I made came out awesome and I've been meaning to make one with brown bear and b-mix for a while.


Making the marbled clay takes a bit of time, but isn't hard. I started by rolling out 6 coils about the width of a pencil in each of the two clay bodies. Then I took 2 brown bear and 2 b-mix and held them together. Then I twisted them until they wouldn't twist any more without breaking. Next I rolled that back into a fat coil, folded in half, and twisted again.




When I felt like the clay was mixed together to to the right amount of consistency I rolled a fat coil that was probable about 3/4 of an inch. I cut coins from the coil a little thicker than a quarter and then rolled them with a pony roller to make them thinner and wider. I used the clay puzzling molds the same way I would with any clay.




I love the marbled agate look. One of the coolest things about these is that no two pots will ever be exactly the same.

We went to get ramen a week ago and I decided I wanted to make a ramen bowl. I roughly measured it and am making some prototypes. They have the same top and bottom diameter, but different heights. We'll see which works better and then I'll make more, or alter the dimensions.

I've seen pictures of glaze chip plates on social media and wanted to try it. I've been saving all my empties for a while and am now drying them out so I can make glaze chips. They are just drying now, but when I scrap the extra glaze out I will wear a mask just in case.


I'm also going to reuse some of these bottles for the Clayscapes Jessica Putnam Phillips celadons when they come so I can easily access them and brush them on.