http://blog.mudstuffing.com Throw in the morning, sew in the afternoon... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:16:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kids are back in school, so I've been working the studio pretty hard lately though, all except the old blog... sorry for the lack of updates, for some reason my internet/computer time is on the back burner. Even my etsy listings are tapering off while I get a few large ... http://blog.mudstuffing.com/?p=761 Yep, I've been a bad blogger this summer. Too much warm weather, too much fun with my family, lots of pots and all of a sudden summer is almost over... but not it's not over yet! The family is headed to Jamaica next week and we cannot wait! We went ... http://blog.mudstuffing.com/?p=758 Sorry for the lack of updates lately. We had another great Big Crafty this past weekend, and I am hoping things wind down around here and I get some more new work started in the studio. I also need to do "Part 2" of new things I learned about my ... http://blog.mudstuffing.com/?p=754 Field and Michael Kline's Kiln Shed I get a little feeling Wyeth's "Kristina's World" whenever I see his kiln shed. Before they get lost in my noggin, I wanted to share a few new things I've learned in the past month. I've always loved watching other artists and potters work. It ... http://blog.mudstuffing.com/?p=745 Month of May 2010? where the heck are you headed? I was just getting to know you and all of a sudden you tell me you're almost over? It started with helping Michael Kline stoke his kiln (I gottsa blog post stored in my head about that, but may soon ... http://blog.mudstuffing.com/?p=740 Loafers Glory (white stoneware), with 70/30 slip, Iron Ox wash, a clear cone 6 commercial glaze over. Electric fired. Okey dokes... back to making pots. I need to stop getting side tracked, and focus on the bread and butter, ya know? Eleanor was asking in a comment what the slip recipe was ... http://blog.mudstuffing.com/?p=737 I've got a new article in Pottery Making Illustrated - it shows how to make stopperless salt and pepper shakers. This issue also has one of my favorite ceramic artists - Jeff Campana - giving away his secrets on cutting and re-assembling pots. Check it out here. BTW - if you've ... http://blog.mudstuffing.com/?p=734 This is the third one... actually this one was done pretty much at the same time that I was working on the one whose nose broke. This one I was pretty excited about too... not without it's faults mind you - I went with decaled eyes and one of them ... http://blog.mudstuffing.com/?p=730 I'm posting these in a sort of chronilogical order of when they were made, even though they were all fired together, I think there is a natural progression. So this one, American Wonder, was done right after the one I posted yesterday. I think you can tell I was more ... http://blog.mudstuffing.com/?p=723 A sculpture, originally uploaded by mudstuffing. The sculptures have been pretty much finished, came out of the warm kiln this morning. Not super excited about them, but not unhappy either. I'm learning and gaining experience, seeing what is working and what is not. Finding out it's not only a process ... http://blog.mudstuffing.com/?p=721