Resting up from the weekend

Yeah, right.

After our first weekend at Holiday Market, I'm down at the studio glazing again. I've got five days to get everything ready for next week's firing (could possibly stretch to six, if Denise would watch the booth Saturday. Sunday, though, she's going to Portland for a paper making workshop).

Should be manageable; I have fewer pots than usual because so many were left over from the last firing, and I'll have Denise's help glazing incense dragons Thursday. Yesterday I got the biggest items out of the way, pasta bowls and platter, servers and batter bowls. Today I blew through the creamers, stew mugs and tall mugs, and did a couple of special orders. 

One was rather lovely--a covered crock with vented lid for keeping sourdough starter. I'd already done one for the customer, decorated with cardinals; this one's for her mom, with Carolina Wrens.

The other is rather silly, though I suppose deeply sentimental to the owner: a picture of his old VW Camper/Van, Buster, painted on a set of three mugs.

Tomorrow, it's flat stuff: dinner, dessert and pie plates, plus a few covered crocks and butter dishes.