We were on our own again this Christmas except for the 4 (+/-) chickens, 2 cats, 2 dogs and the two 3 year olds and the 6 year old~somehow it was pretty busy.
I have also joined insta gram as trial by fire pottery and am putting up a photo or video once in a while as a sneak inside my tiny world and brand new studio:)
I have been working on the next steps for my pots once the Nest Gallery in Duncan closes at the end of the year. I have applied to join the Imagine That! artisan gallery downtown and have dropped off 6 pots for their jury process. After making about 16,000 pots since 1996, I am still leery of being rejected on such a soul level and hate the wait. (Of course, the best way to cope is to throw 75 kilos of clay a day:)
I could probably sell on my website (here) but it would be very rudimentary at best. Hubby and I were spitballing ideas and it came up that I could put up a simple photo of a mug with height and weight so that if someone wanted to purchase one they could email the money and I could box it. I sent a package to Prince George in early Decmeber with 2 travel mugs and the shipping was $15~meaning that the 2 mugs at $45 + shipping was $105. Perhaps the world is ready for that, perhaps not. I will give it a try:)
The other big change is that I am trialing the written name of my pottery studio instead of the TBF that I have been adding with coloured clay slip. I will have to fine tune it and fall in love with it but I do like that it is a real handwritten addition and not a laser cut stamp-maybe it will morph into that. As much as I love the old fashioned idea of having a cryptic signature, it make more sense in the Information Age to have something handwritten in stone that one might look up on the Google machine;)
I am still teaching at the HUB in Cowichan Station but my Jan/Feb/Mar class filled up in November this year. I did a special workshop with Quamichan School and assisted them in creating the below primitive style pots. I later fired them, sorted, waxed, glazed and fired them again and they were back out into the world use before the kids went off for Christmas break:)
February Classes
Group Class for up to 4 students
$120/4 February classes
Includes clay/tools/rags/etc
Tuesday evenings 6:30pm-8:30pm
Feb. 5/12/19/26
Wednesday evenings 6:30pm-8:30pm
Feb. 6/13/20/27
Saturday Mornings 9am-11am
Feb. 2/9/16/23
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