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Catching up
Feb. 4th, 2017 08:07 pmI had the best of intentions. I took pictures every day or so. I was going to get back into regular posting after the Christmas hiatus.
We can see how well that worked out.
It's not all my fault. I lost 10 days flying back to Wisconsin for my mother-in-law Mary's funeral; another 10 days alone back here while Denise continued to sort things out in Milwaukee. And I got into the usual production madness, 100 lbs. or more of clay a day and the trimming and handles and long days. So I totally forgot to document the massive pile of recycled clay--three or four hundred pounds--we produced, before I used it all up. I popped up here once; did a memorial to Mary, then disappeared again.
This last week was glazing, down to the studio around 9 or 10 am, leave for home at 5 pm. I took pictures. I really intended to post them. But my cell phone doesn't want to talk to the wifi, and booting the laptop to transfer the files involved actually getting up from where I'd flopped, exhausted, on the couch. Or, you know, bed.
So, you get it all at once, in my one day off between glazing and loading the kiln.
To start with, I had a lot of tableware. Thirty-some dinner plates, an equal number of dessert plates. Including custom sets for two different clients.
I also had four dozen coffee mugs, and another 25 tall mugs, mostly stock patterns, but also some interesting special orders, like otter, octopus, kakapo and wombat.
I also had commissions for two different cremation urns. One for Mary--she'd talked about what she wanted on it, squirrel and cardinal, back in October--one for the brother-in-law of a fellow church-goer. I talked her out of a Harley-Davidson logo in favor of painting him on his beloved bike.
I closed out the week glazing soup and toddler bowls, 59 on Friday alone. Mostly standard patterns, which go a lot faster; it took less time to do 10 toddlers Friday morning than two each of these special-order soup bowls.
I load and fire this week, then spend some time in the office catching up on end-of-year inventory and starting my taxes. And hopefully finding some clever things to say here.
We can see how well that worked out.
It's not all my fault. I lost 10 days flying back to Wisconsin for my mother-in-law Mary's funeral; another 10 days alone back here while Denise continued to sort things out in Milwaukee. And I got into the usual production madness, 100 lbs. or more of clay a day and the trimming and handles and long days. So I totally forgot to document the massive pile of recycled clay--three or four hundred pounds--we produced, before I used it all up. I popped up here once; did a memorial to Mary, then disappeared again.
This last week was glazing, down to the studio around 9 or 10 am, leave for home at 5 pm. I took pictures. I really intended to post them. But my cell phone doesn't want to talk to the wifi, and booting the laptop to transfer the files involved actually getting up from where I'd flopped, exhausted, on the couch. Or, you know, bed.
So, you get it all at once, in my one day off between glazing and loading the kiln.
To start with, I had a lot of tableware. Thirty-some dinner plates, an equal number of dessert plates. Including custom sets for two different clients.
I also had four dozen coffee mugs, and another 25 tall mugs, mostly stock patterns, but also some interesting special orders, like otter, octopus, kakapo and wombat.
I also had commissions for two different cremation urns. One for Mary--she'd talked about what she wanted on it, squirrel and cardinal, back in October--one for the brother-in-law of a fellow church-goer. I talked her out of a Harley-Davidson logo in favor of painting him on his beloved bike.
I closed out the week glazing soup and toddler bowls, 59 on Friday alone. Mostly standard patterns, which go a lot faster; it took less time to do 10 toddlers Friday morning than two each of these special-order soup bowls.
I load and fire this week, then spend some time in the office catching up on end-of-year inventory and starting my taxes. And hopefully finding some clever things to say here.