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Tuesday, 22 July 2008
It's a small world but I wouldn't like to paint it.
This morning I was flicking through some old glaze notebooks looking for some information that I thought Blogger Andrew might be interested in and I came across this printed sheet I'd obviously used at uni. The word "Shelby" jumped out and I thought oh that's where Blogger Ron lives, on looking more closely (the printing is a bit dodgy on that line) it does actually say "Ron Philbeck of Shelby"! Would you believe it!? That paper must have been in my folder since at least 1999 oh so many years ago.
I was really good today and spent the morning mixing up a new batch of my honey glaze, and that's now soaking before I begin to sieve it. Then I mixed up some trials of new slip colours, it's been on my list of things to do for an age. It'll be interesting to see how they look. Does Chrome react badly under a lead glaze anyone? ( What I mean is will it make it unsafe?)
This afternoon has been a bit slower, I handled all the mugs from yesterday but I've got really sore hands today, my thumbs and all across the back of my hands are very tender and actually a bit painful. Note to self: must take some arnica. So I had a prolonged tea break reading Michael Kline's article on Blogging in my newly acquired Studio Potter magazine.
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Ron Philbeck,
slip tests
Monday, 21 July 2008
Outside our cottage this evening.
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views
Mugs.
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big bowl,
lidded jars,
mugs,
Potfest
Sunday, 20 July 2008
Up int thills.
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Scottish Potters association
Friday, 18 July 2008
Paul was making dinner tonight while I was baking millionaire's shortbread and he made the comment that living in this house is difficult because not only do you have to decide what to make to eat (Vietnamese chicken curry with kumara very damn good actually) but you have to decide on the bowls to serve it in and different little ones for the rice and then on the type of drinking vessel too and boy is there a selection to chose from. I think secretly he enjoys it though.
I decided that six hours was plenty to spend on decorating a jug, oh I really hope it stays in one piece and survives the firings. So it's done now and is sitting out to dry.
Slightly odd tulip thing, I was trying to just use the white slip and then a bit of cobalt sneaked in there.
I was doing this video and realised it was going far too fast to see anything, that's what I'm laughing at in the film.
"May you always have
love to share,
health to spare
and friends that care."
"The day is thine
abuse it not
perhaps tomorrow
commeth not."
I was doing this video and realised it was going far too fast to see anything, that's what I'm laughing at in the film.
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Harvest jugs,
puzzle jug,
sgraffito
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Well. . .
I was down in Dumfries today doing a wee spot of teaching working on a one to one basis with adults with learning disabilities. The studio is on the railway station in town and at about half past ten this morning we were all evacuated because of a suspicious package on the tracks. Certainly added to the excitement of the day I was expecting sirens and flashing lights and bomb disposal experts running in from every direction. As it happened there was none of that and after about twenty minutes they let us back in again. It was probably someone's lunch.
Than this evening I was caught by someone I know browsing the baby care aisle of our supermarket, that's how rumours start around here and it's all Alan's fault!
I was perusing the google images search option today and came across this, how cool is that! An x-ray of the jug. It's from this website, there are a couple of x-rays on there.
Than this evening I was caught by someone I know browsing the baby care aisle of our supermarket, that's how rumours start around here and it's all Alan's fault!
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x-ray jug
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Day two for the sponge
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big bowl,
big platters,
oval dishes,
Potfest,
puzzle jug,
squared dish,
tea bowls
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