So this has been my first attempt at seeing just how much product I can produce in a month. Granted it's only with the limited amount of moulds I've created so far. But I think its enough of a small mix of items to make it a fairly decent dry run.



One week of, shall I call it 'casual' casting produced:
50 cereal/soup bowls - 110 tumblers - 4 sets of five deep nesting bowls - 1 set of four salad bowls - 2 sets of three spice bowls.


I have wondered what I would be able to put forth should I do 8 hours a day 5 days a week like a regular 40 hour work week. But technically I am still getting my 'relax' on so I refer to my production mode as casual because there were many breaks for online games of scrabble, occasional naps, bubble baths, daily house cleaning chores, phone calls with friends etc. So in a perfect world, I would be able to get away with all of that and produce what needs to be produced. We shall see...




I estimated two weeks to glaze all of this - but I've got my second kiln load of glazed wares in the kiln as I type. And only one kiln load full of wares remaining to be fired. I get really into the glazing. Nothing casual about it to be sure. I wake up and the first thought that runs through my head is 'Yay! I get to glaze today!'. And I throw on my glazing gear and hit the studio. I like to blare Funk, Disco and the last 24 hours has been a lot of Prince on Pandora Radio. I like the Sheila E too. hah. Okay, so I dont give up the Scrabble. If I run upstairs for a bathroom break or I finally realize I should eat something, Scrabble will be played.

Then typically the next thing I know its dark out and my husband is about to come home and I run around and clean the house and make the bed and cook dinner and try and act like I didnt just lose 8 hours in the basement in happy clay land. But he can usually tell since I'm covered head to toe in glaze.



I know these photos of unfired glazed pieces are terrible. I take them with my iphone. The quality isnt very good. Lousy flourescent lighting. But still I enjoy documenting the process because the difference between the first unfired glaze ware and what it looks like after final fire is so dramatic it never ceases to enthrall me. There is so much vision involved in the process. Its as if I have to document it someone in order to improve my 'vision' of how things are going to look.

The process of making each piece takes so lonnnnng. And I am SO impatient.
My goal is to have the new work posted early next week. Next week will need to be devoted to photographing everything. THATS going to take a long time. I see a lot of scrabble in my future...