Forty

It seems like a biblically large number. Forty years in the desert, forty days and forty nights. Perhaps folkloric. Forty thieves in Ali Baba's cave.

Forty different patterns in one order.

I managed three-quarters of the project yesterday, soup bowls, toddlers, dessert/salad plates. Decided I was too wiped out to tackle the dinner plates until this morning (and in fact was too tired to remember to take a pic of the dessert plates). Here's the rest of the set, though.


Next were a couple of simpler orders, a set of five bowls in five patterns, and two table settings (Dinner, dessert, soup bowl), one pattern each set. Here are the five bowls (the other set was simple, standard patterns: flamingo, chickadee).

Closed out the day glazing eighteen plates for another order (dinner and dessert), all in one pattern: Crab. While I really enjoy the challenging, one-of-(many)-kinds projects, it's sometimes nice to just put the brain on autopilot and just paint something familiar, over and over and over.

Ten more crab bowls tomorrow, then I'm done with orders, and it's just standard ware, plates and bowls, mostly, to fill out the kiln.