Mug shot Monday
Mar. 16th, 2021 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrPottery Instagram has a tag, #mugshotmonday, where you're supposed to post whatever mug you're working on, have just finished, are uploading to your Etsy... you get the picture. And the picture is of a mug or mugs. I don't often remember to post, but yesterday, I was spoiled for choice.
Yesterday, I glazed 60 tall mugs.
I'd nearly run out at Christmas (one box left in the van, none in the shed), so I put 40 in my late January firing, but between special orders and sales at Tsunami Books, a local independent bookstore, I'd gone through nearly all of them. So this time, I decided to really stock up. Sixty mugs is 75 lbs. of clay just in the throwing, probably another 10-12 for handles. Glazing them all in one day was a heck of a feat.
Today I followed with another 32 mugs, special order for Great Harvest Bakery. They ordered mugs for coffee service last February, then had to stop selling coffee when the lockdown went into effect. Instead, they've been selling them to staff and customers, and they've been moving well enough to spark a reorder.
And then there's these little cuties. A long-time customer contacted me about making 3.5-4 oz. espresso cups, without handles. I'd already fired my last bisque, but managed to fit them into someone else's firing over the weekend, so painted a whole bunch of birdies on them today.
Yesterday, I glazed 60 tall mugs.
I'd nearly run out at Christmas (one box left in the van, none in the shed), so I put 40 in my late January firing, but between special orders and sales at Tsunami Books, a local independent bookstore, I'd gone through nearly all of them. So this time, I decided to really stock up. Sixty mugs is 75 lbs. of clay just in the throwing, probably another 10-12 for handles. Glazing them all in one day was a heck of a feat.
Today I followed with another 32 mugs, special order for Great Harvest Bakery. They ordered mugs for coffee service last February, then had to stop selling coffee when the lockdown went into effect. Instead, they've been selling them to staff and customers, and they've been moving well enough to spark a reorder.
And then there's these little cuties. A long-time customer contacted me about making 3.5-4 oz. espresso cups, without handles. I'd already fired my last bisque, but managed to fit them into someone else's firing over the weekend, so painted a whole bunch of birdies on them today.
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Date: 2021-03-17 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-03-18 04:44 am (UTC)I don't generally stay late glazing, as the quality of my brushwork starts to slip. If I'm really under a deadline, I'll go home, have supper and rest a bit, then come back and work 'til around 10 at night. But usually, I try to give myself enough days that I can keep to a reasonable schedule.
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Date: 2021-03-17 11:19 pm (UTC)