MONDAY ODDS & ENDS

Today is one of those days, a day to get odds and ends done including acting as a taxi service and dropping my wife off at the airport. As soon as I got home, I started firing the kiln which has two large test bowls, 4 slip test small tiles and a group of test pots included among the mix. As a last actual pottery related chore, I glazed up a porcelain test bowl in a commercial glaze that someone sent me as a gift and admittedly, I am curious what the results will actually look like. Before glazing up the bowl, I contacted the manufacturer's technical person and got a few suggestions as to how to use it as quite frankly, I rarely use any commercial glazes and I guess this particular one is a bit tricky.

With actual clay related tasks out of the way, I collected up and packed two small orders which includes a pair of cup and saucers and a group of four matching temmoku and ash 8" bowls using recycled or perhaps repurposed packing materials and boxes. As you can see the slab roller and clay scale are pulling double duty to get the close to actual shipping weight correct as the USPS is a bit touchy when it comes to any gross miscalculations. Once all packed up, I set up and printed two labels and scheduled a postal pick-up which makes tomorrow just a bit less busy. As you can tell, today was one of those days of multi-tasking and completing some odds and ends, all necessary and just part of my pottery week and what beats being busy to make Monday just a bit easier to manage.

 Did I mention my wife is out of town? That means a week of really bad, great cult movies!