Ikea. Ikkkeeeeeaaaaa

Who DOESN'T love Ikea.

Gah.

Damn straight there's an Art Fair Saturday. 

And pizza for only $1.50??!?

And a Carolina Clay visit!! I left my pottery wheel parts there. We said a little prayer. My pottery wheel stopped spinning a couple of months ago. It's an older wheel...so it might be sleepy or ready for retirement. Just like my burgundy jeep...

Monsters, Thai Tea and post college neurosis

I don't know if the monsters are a good idea but I like them. Vegetable monsters are coming to make sure you eat healthy. Maybe they're trying to push me to eat more vegetables and to stop drinking so much thai tea and eating girl scout cookies. *yummmm*

I also discovered sleeping earlier at night helps me to stay focused. Well...that's rather obvious huh.

I've also "also" discovered that I miss playing with color on clay. I'm so used to high firing, that I forgot about my color testing from my freshman days at FMU. I miss that place. But alas...we must grow and make something of ourselves past college. Then life is hectic and confusing! And THEN months go by...and you're like..."Hey. I wasted two months being confused..." Or is this just me. 

I miss this...

I should make more bird cups...tomorrow

Hummmm...

There's something soothing about repetition. For the last two days, slip casting and trailing have been my go to style for working with clay. It's so wonderful...I've grown to appreciate my time between jobs and now, forcing on art instead of blowing time just feels like second nature.

I also am learning to be thankful. I would love love love to have a permanent studio, but by having somewhat of a space to create is better than having on space at all. -I hope this doesn't turn into a wacky public journal :/

Thankful

I've been gifted a lot of things for my pursuit of ceramics...and one of my gifts were buckets and buckets full of earthernware slip. Its fun trying to think of interesting ways to create things...now I can use bright colors in clay.

Gosh, things have been so busy. My glazes preformed very very well...AND my kiln fires to cone 5! I'm feeling rather overwhelmed with work and tasks that I need to stay on top of, but things are going well.

Making test tiles felt annyoing to me. I'm slowly realizing how hurried I am and how I push to finish things. I then realized I need to relax and enjoy the process. They came out very well too...
 

I name my tiles silly, stupid things. I didn't want to convey my immaturity haha.

Thanks to a wonder friend, I now have several buckets of terra cotta slip and over a dozen low fire and mid range glazes. I was so excited my tummy ached with happiness.

I hope life is well with you...whom ever is reading this. :)

Sleep would be nice

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I'm so nervous. Firing the test tiles with glazed pieces probably wasn't the smartest thing to do... But I've been so excited to create these ceramic pieces. 

Maybe I should think about applying to graduate school in the fall...I want to get away for a long time. Plus, I would love to create in an environment where everyone is pushing themselves to try new and artistic things. 

Well, for right now, I'm excited to see what the glazes will look like tomorrow. 

So. The address was incorrect for my glaze order. Lord.

Tonight.

I graduated in December. I feels so freeing to not be in school.

I also started to create jewelry. I love creating small items that people can wear. Ceramic mugs and cups are beautiful, but there's something wonderful about someone placing a necklace around their neck to wear daily. It suits their mood for that day.

This is such a departure from my chiseling that it scares me a bit.

The glazes are going to arrive tomorrow and, hopefully, thurday night, I will post photos of the pieces.

Gosh, i love this. 

I haven't posted on here in awhile, mainly because i love the sleekness of my tumblr. I've had tumblr for a little over a year now, but i've been enjoying it for the last couple of weeks or so. But, this is a pottery/ceramics blog and i'm tumblr seems...a bit general..so i suppose i will just use both.

New work:

Haha. Posting just because.

I LOVE IT.

It took, maybe, an hour to get the gist of it...but basically it's a database program. If you need to catagorize and organize stuff, then you need to look into Bento:


I've just started using Bento to organize my pottery pieces and .... to organize my life lol.

I have wonderful friends. We went bowling today, which was fun, and i allowed for myself to let go a bit.

So....no glazing as of yet. I keep thinking i need to test one strip of the bark texture and try both celadons (dark and light) and the Dolomite white over derek Eems red on a couple of strips.

One thing that always amazes me is the endless thoughts that clay can bring. I was thinking about uploading parts of my sketch book onto this blog because it's interesting...well to me it is lol. There are so many scattered thoughts and pictures. I have the wackiest ideas...and sketch books seem to be so beautiful in general.

Wow

Hi. Hahaha.

Lately, i've been wary of blogging. I think it comes from me being wary of life in general, but blogging just seems kinda selfish..you know? It's like...attention whore-ish.

I guess i'm being an attention whore for mah potz.

Gosh i love pottery! I don't know what it is about pottery. It's so beautiful and random...there are so many possibilities in clay. I love the texture and feel of the clay in my fingers. I love the complex process you have to go through when you're experiencing clay. I love the pain that it causes when you're so in love with a piece and it breaks. You start to lean that things are so fragile and lovely, and that nothing lasts for ever. I think that's why i became not so attached to my work.



They're so beautiful. I think it's my most varied but beautiful batch of clay i've created in all my semesters at FMU. I've been very experimental and i hope it pays off after the firing. I'm worried because i would like to get my glazes down correctly.

I'm the type of person that takes complementary colors and tries to apply it some sort of color scheme for my pots...i want it to look appealing. haha. Of course.

I'm trying to decide if i should go ahead and do a small firing, then put the rest of my pots into the large firing my professor will do a couple of weeks from now...humm...the small kiln doesn't like me much. Haha It's so temperamental.

I'm been obsessing over glazes and a friend of mine told me to calm down because it's all i've been talking about over the last week or so. I was even trying to explain my love for glazes and the complicated process of firing ni general to my professor...but the words came out of my mouth in a jumbled mess and i felt so incompetent. Oh well.

I love clay.