Tradition Turners Pottery Festival

I will be at West Lincoln Middle School tomorrow (Saturday, Oct 13).  The show opens at 9 am and will be over around 2 pm.  I decided to do a minimal booth this year and left my tall shelves at home.  There's still plenty to look at if you decide to come to the show.  

I found myself looking at everything all set up and feeling pretty good about it all.  I know this sounds out of character for me.  Normally I am more disappointed in pieces as they are fired than I am excited by them, but looking at everything together (which I only do when setting up for a show), its not so bad.  It also doesn't hurt my ego any when other potters come up and tell me how nice my work is.  I don't believe them, but it is nice for them to say.  

At least I left the gym tonight feeling good about things.  Tomorrow if I don't sell much, it will be a different story.  

Raku Experiment

Remember these little guys from a few weeks ago?  I decided to raku fire all of them.  Really I didn't have much to do with the actual firing.  I put wax on them (to keep the glaze off the parts that I wanted to be naked.) and then Allen then took them to Gaston College and glazed them and fired for me.  

When they'd been fired, I ran them through the dish washer to clean all the soot off of them. 

And then followed that by a little shoe polish on the black parts and some future wax on the whole thing to give it a nice shine.  I am delighted with the outcome!  

I gave the shoe polish/future wax treatment to the other raku piece I had from last year.  Now Allen's finger marks are shiny.