No Festival For Me

Wish I could go to the Catawba Valley Pottery & Antiques Festival this weekend. Instead, I'm moving! Thankfully, I've almost finished packing. Adrienne and several others that I know will have their pottery there. I'll definitely miss out. (Camera shutter didn't fully open. I need a new camera!)

Above, here's part of what came out of the kiln today. Three in this pic are mine. Here they are again in this next pic, fired with spotted shino on the inside and combos of red iron oxide, catherine's oribe, wax resist, alfred's blue, tenmoku all for design on the outside. I'm mostly pleased. This is a good beginning. I'm trying one of the new pots out tonight, just to see if it works. Yes, the red wine does is great in it. :) I'm going to focus more on my surface work in the days to come. In the meantime, I like hearing the ping ping sound of the pots once they come out of the kiln. My three are still ping pinging.

Finally, here are some of Adrienne's pots getting ready for their trip to Hickory, NC for the Festival. Look closely... Beautiful.