Back Home Again

After spending the better part of the last 3 weeks traveling (first to grade Advanced Placement Calculus exams in Kansas City, MO and then to the beach in Florida for a week), I am home and returned to the studio today.  While I was gone last week, there was a glaze fire.  I had several pieces in this one, so I brought home a big ole box of pottery with me today.   The picture below is all the things that are mine.

The sort of light green piece on the far left of the picture is the piece that I was working on in my last blog post.  I am pretty pleased by how this looks now that it is finished.  In addition to the sets of mugs that I made when I was working on pulling handles (and I need to do that again soon to see if I still can...), there are some new pieces.  I made some candle holders (left side in front of the "belly out" piece).  I'd never done candle holders before.  It was fun! 

I have a special order that I started working on today.  The small tan and green dish in the front of this picture (and the other 3 that are shaped the same way) were the test run for some pieces that I am making for Cleveland Community College.  That's a long story and I'll spare you the details for now.  I made 6 of those this morning.  I'll put handles on those and probably throw 6 more tomorrow sometime.  Then I figure I'll do 6 more in another day or so to fill the order for 15 pieces (with 3 extras just in case something happens).  Today's throwing was sandwiched between the early morning lifting and running and the mid day swim, so I was tired by the time I got home.  We'll see how much longer I'm able to keep up this pace.