I really hurt my hand the other day at the beach. I was trying to be macho and show off for Daniel by diving for the  frisbee and I landed wrong. It hurts pretty bad but I am one tough cookie!

I made it to class and was able to glaze a few of my pieces. When I say “I glazed them” I am really saying “Steff glazed them for me.” I am thankful for her help but I am wishing I would have waited until I could dip them myself. I guess what my vision was for the glaze application wasn’t translated well into words on my part. Oh well! Maybe I will be very pleasantly surprised. It always seems to work out that way.

I also need to get over how I do not want any fingerprints or blemishes. I do know that this is what makes handmade pottery “handmade” but I want it to be exactly how I want it to be. I think that is why I enjoy hand drawing my design with slip trailers. Even though I do not use slip, underglaze has won my heart, I enjoy the trailers because I can be very precise and then just dip it in a translucent glaze. No guess work involved

Here are some pics I took after I put them on the glaze cart.

Don’t ask me to remember the glazes I applied until after they are fired! I didn’t write the glaze down and I was cloudy from the pain killers. I can see some things I am worried about like too clumpy, too drippy, too this or too that.

Time to pray to the kiln gods and hope that they treat me kindly!

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