More pottery

Over the past few months I have been trying to work as much as possible in the pottery studio at Laguna Gloria. I was still only able to work there about once a week but I got an amazing amount of work done! (At least for me... I'm  not always as productive as I want to be.) Whenever I was unable to go to the studio I decided to do a little hand building. I hope y'all enjoy!

Here everything (almost) is before I glazed them. 

I made these two at the hospital. Bubbles the fish and Jawn the hedgehog.

This is a flower put. The swirls took a lot longer than I anticipated when I started them. (I had to use the back end of the paint brush.. Not very conducive to making a lot of swirls at once.) 

My salt cellar. I will probably throw thaws on the wheel from now on. They take o while longer than I want to, starting from a pinch pot.

Flower pot #2.

 

These are tea bag rests.

Spoon rests.

This is the bottom of one of the spoon rests.

These are soap dishes I made using a cookie cutter.

Two juice glasses.

This is a mug I made for my grandmother!

And last but not least here is a bowl.

Projects from the Last Few Months

I have been so busy lately! Between being in the hospital, dog training, art endeavors, and College things, there hasn't been time for much else. However I have been very productive artistically. 

 My "Flower Mug". Does anyone have any ideas on what color I could Glaze it?

 This is a Bud Vase. It will probably be a light green color.

The next few pictures are Bubbles the Fish. I'm thinking of painting scales of different shades of blue and green. Any thoughts?

 This is "Jawn". He is a Hedgehog. He will be a pretty brown when he is finished.

And here is Bubbles the Fish and "Jawn" the Hedgehog together!

As a bon as here is a picture of Rori!!

She likes to swing on the porch swing with me!

 

The Past Six Weeks

It has been very busy here for the past six weeks and yet I haven't seemed to get much done! Most of my obligations have been social obligations like prom and a fundraiser. I also got a new puppy which put a stop to everything else for a while. Her name is aurora, but everyone just calls her Rori. She is very sweet and I love her dearly, but the first couple of weeks were slightly taxing! The first week or so she got up around 2-4 times a night. Luckily no she has started sleeping through the night. 

This was the first night I brought her home! She was only five weeks old. She was so small and fluffy!

We went and got her some toys and a collar a couple of days after we brought her home.

Sleeping is one of her favorite past times. 

Rori isn't the only addition to our family full of animals though. We have also started a fowl yard in our backyard. We have both ducks and chickens.

These are the newest set of ducks. We have two full grown ducks as well.

Here are the two big ducks and some of the chickens. They didn't like it when we were building their yard.

Although Rori takes up quite a bit of my time, I have managed to get a few things done craft wise. I have resently started making bookmarks and I have gotten a new pair of baby booties done. I have also started a pottery class! 

I found the pattern for the baby booties on Pinterest. The pattern is by Lenore English. It was a very easy pattern to follow, and that is coming from someone who hates (and hate is not to strong a word) following patterns. (I did tweak it a bit... 😋)

This is the first pot I ever threw. I am quite pleased with it. Although I wish I had glazed it differently then I did because it got a little ruff where I had to hold it with my fingered during glazing. Pictures of the finished product next week.

This is a cup I finished trimming on Thursday. It is so far my favorite! It should have gone to the first firing on Friday and it will be ready to glaze next Thursday!

This is the oatmeal bowl I finished with the cup above. 

These are the two pots I threw on Thursday.

Also for the fundraiser I was a part of I painted one of those boards that you find at the pumpkin patch and things like that for taking pictures. 

He is still missing his shoes here but I seem to not have a picture of him completely done yet. We were using him so we could throw pies at doctors. We thought it was only fitting at a children's hospital!

All in all I suppose it hasn't been a completely unproductive past 6 weeks.