The Greats

I found some photos I had taken, back in the hazy days of summer from the Sainsbury centre in Norwich. I had gone with a friend and our daughters to show them some of the collection there then took them out to eat afterwards.
Little did I know they had a temporary ceramics exhibition there aswell. I hadn't seen Lucie Ries work in the flesh so to speak, until that day. Well, those bowls are enough to make anyone go away and make a pot, they are stunning, also Hand Coper vessels on show there too.

Hans Coper vessels, these have to be my favourites.

Those war time buttons by Lucie Rie looked like sweeties.

Lucie Rie bowls

How do you suppose whoever made this pot created that lettering?

For the Woodland creatures

This boys growing up

Labelling harvest produce with ceramic labels

My "biscuity" labels are fired to a toasty brown, so Ive been busy threading them up ready to tie onto jars, bottles and pressies.
Im going to set them up on Not on the high street as for a limited time scale.
Perfect for labelling all that summer produce!

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Hot Stuff! and patiently waiting

This was a long and hot firing. This kiln firing took from Thursday 2.00pm until Friday 1.00pm to finish its cycle. 
I can't wait to get it out as I have some chunky black tiles that Ive made for my windowsills in there, amongst other things.
Its sneaky peeks until then. These are photos taken during cooling but still too hot to touch its all at about 250c right now.

Filling the kiln can sometimes take a while, its always a good feeling when its cooled down enough to peep inside to take a quick look, its an even better feeling when you empty the kiln and find that all your hard work has paid off, and you don't have any warpage, cracks and crawls on your work.

Filling the kiln over recent times has mainly consisted of commissions and replenishing stock for my shops, all great if the work has fired well. Yet not so exciting as I already know what I'm going to find in there. This is why I always try a little experiment or test a new glaze or make a piece to use in my home somehow.
 This way I get a little surprise everytime the kiln is fired.

My new brush pot