CONTAGIOUS ?

Not sure if it is contagious but I have noticed a few potters have recently had accidents of one type or another and now can proudly add myself to that list. I have been a hobbled after a small accident and things have been slow going of late though I am now in the midst of a concept of a plan for my imminent glaze firing. I had to make up a number of glazes and have glazed up a few test pieces to proof all the glazes and surfaces as well as having made up several dozen glaze tests. Most of these are unheard-of combos from existing glazes that I use currently or have on hand from past use and feel the need to do this every now and again. 

Once the test bowls are fired, the glaze test will all go in bigger firings to get a more reflective outcome, I will start glazing up somewhere around fifty pieces, almost a dozen with lids. There are several orders here and the two kiln loads will be divided up among soda blue, amber, saffron iron yellow, temmoku and two types of Oribe. Until the glaze proofing is complete, I am trying to take it easy as the last thing I need is to end up making things worse which in all honesty, I am very good at, at least I know my strong suit.     

By way of a quick post, here are the two ring jars that held up my last firing. Though they looked similar just glazed, the one is saffron with black iron over and the other is Kuro-Oribe which has pooled nicely in the depressed channels. Both are small covered pieces that will take up little space and can be used for just about anything short of holding a full party bag of peanut-butter M&Ms coming in at 13.5oz, I know this for a fact as I tried.