Inspired by Lopez

I never thought about making jewelry until my friend Sara Lopez suggested making pendants.

"Dude, you could make that."

Huh. Ok, I'll try.

This first one is a tile hung from brown leather cording:

A variation. Long skinny tile hung from a silver collar:

Blue-green loop pendant hung from a silver collar:

Close up so you can see the glaze a little better:

Blue-green square (cube) bead drops:

I have more colors, this is just what I quickly assembled this morning.

WIPs

Finished up a few things today... trimmed a large bowl (it's 16'' in diameter at the moment) and then trimmed and finished the hand work on 2 more piggy banks.

Of course the pigs have crazy tails and butt cracks. Heh.

Huh. The bowl isn't nearly as impressive in that pic as it is in person. Partly it's the perspective - the pigs are slightly in front, and partly it's because the pigs are just large.

This Little Piggie...

Started working on stuff for the Swan Creek Potters Spring Sale today....

Still have some finishing work to do, and they still have to survive bisq & glaze fire, but I'm pleased with them so far.

And one more thing

The annual Swan Creek Potters Spring Sale is the first Saturday in May. May 1st, I believe. Same place as usual, in Whitehouse, OH. Hope to see you there!

Is it Spring yet?

I'm ready. And waiting.

Been a quiet couple months here. After the mass production before Christmas, I took a few weeks off. And then because those 2 gift pots were screwed up (see previous post), I had to re-make those and enough other stuff (mostly yarn bowls) to fill the kiln so I could get the gifts to people. That's finally done.

Anyway, one thing that I learned (well, re-learned) is that I am not a production potter. That just takes the fun out of it for me. So I'm just going to make what I want when I want to make it. :o) If that means a ton of stuff at once because I'm in a groove, great. I just don't want to HAVE do to that.

That said, I just realized I have 2 months to get ready for a sale. Good thing I'm not working now. ;oP

Today I started some new piggy banks, to replace the ones from last week that fell victim to my distractedness. Tomorrow I'll probably throw more yarn bowls. Oh, and I have some ideas for some Springie thingies. But I'm not telling what that is yet.

Stay tuned.