Today it's Jeff's turn...

Aren't these beauties? I believe all the mugs like this are sold. The pitcher is listed on Etsy... clicking on the photo will take you to Jeff's online shop. Wouldn't this pitcher make a great Christmas gift?

back to work

Next week is the Celebration of Seagrove Potters, which means there was no time to decompress from the trip north. Jeff and I had work made before we left town, so it was more a matter of finishing things up. Along with firing our gas kiln this week we also have the opportunity to put some pots in Fred Johnston's wood kiln.

The sunny dry weather helped us get things dried out for the bisque kiln.

These are Jeff's pitchers for the wood kiln

Another round of piggy banks, along with vases and bottles... YAY for my gingko vases, I got my wood firing wish!!!!

We are not stressing too much about the Celebration show. It's not our biggest event of the year, and we have plenty of inventory to bring. This year Jeff will be at the show on Saturday and I will keep our shop open at home. This is year three for us at this show and thought it was time to try something new, we like to keep life interesting...

gotta run, it's time to open the shop!

Firing #2!

and now for the pots from Fred Johnston's kiln...

 Jeff's big pot... 2' tall. I love this one and have a feeling it won't be around long.

 One of my gingko vases. I really wish I had been able to fire more of these in this kiln. The light salting makes it sparkle. The surfaces feels really nice.

 What's a salt firing without a pig?

 This bowl was supposed has robins egg blue on the interior... the reduction was heavy and it went pink. There were a couple of other pink things, I can live with this one, not sure about the others.

  Small rattle with maple leaf... I don't know what my attraction is to little baubles like this. I always want to keep them.

Jeff's large platter with textured rim.

I will get some good photos once bottoms are ground and sanded. We'll be taking most of these pots to Art in the Park in Charlotte a week from tomorrow. If you missed the post of firing #1 go back to the previous post from earlier today.