A TYPICAL MONDAY

Today was one of those days were I honestly don't feel like I got much done even though I did in other words, just a typical Monday. I spent the day on "replenishing" duty; black, white, iron and copper slips and several glazes including temmoku, Oribe (latest version), ash glaze and the iron yellow. It is positively crazy how fast time can go by as you measure and mix to wet all of these formulas leaving me feeling like I didn't really get when in fact I did get exactly what I had planned done. On top of the replenishing efforts, I got thinks cleaned up, sorted out and put away as well as packing up two packages for tomorrow's post.    

Last but not least I got three mayo jars filled up with ready to use thick, slurry slip from stoneware slop. In this older photo you can see the recently applied combed slurry slip on a stoneware teabowl that was later glazed in an Oribe glaze with a bit of iron added to the surface. Sorry for the mundane details, no one ever said that blogging would be nothing but non-stop excitement and at the end of the day, time is short and things just have to get done.  

"A difficult task can be done immediately, an impossible task requires a bit more time."  George Santayana