pottery: salt keeper

Yay, we have a salt keeper!

[[stoneware clay, salt kiln]]

I really love this piece. It was fired in the salt kiln, which gives it that unique texture and appearance on the outside. No glaze was applied whatsoever to the outside, that's just what the salt does to the clay. Cool huh? I did add some black engobe to make the letters pop on the lid.

I should be picking up a few more of my pieces later this week. and I can't wait until I take another class.

share the love

So I saw this in a MS Magazine a long time ago and thought it might be fun to incorporate it into our wedding. We'll be talking to our officient about it tomorrow.

"We tied our wedding rings together with a ribbon and asked our guests to pass our rings among them before the ceremony started, so everyone touched our rings before we put them on." ~ Sadie, married in Tuscany, Italy

So most of you might be familiar with palmona's nest and her lovely text bowls. Well since I was taking a pottery class, I made my own version of a ring bowl using a small rubber stamp set I purchased from michaels. I'm thinking we'll tie our rings in the bowl and have our guests pass the bowl to share the love.
Now I just need to come up with a cute saying for this part of the wedding and to maybe help explain why I'm doing it. Any help would be appreciated. and I can't decide if I like 'love' better or 'amor'. What do you guys think?

pottery: slump molds

[[stoneware clay]]

Two halves make a whole. Plus small clay pieces trapped on the inside. A handheld rattle.

It still needs to be glazed though (hopefully next week).

pottery: first finished pieces

So I've been taking this pottery class at callanwolde. and here are my first finished pieces.

This one reminds me of the color of the moon during an eclipse.

[[lizella clay, made by me]]

[[raku clay, built by T, fired by me]]

These are the pinch pots I started to make my very first week (which was 9 weeks ago). This firing process is called carbon horse hair firing. The pots are fired in a raku kiln until they reach an extremely high temperature. Then once they cool to a low enough temperature (but still super hot to touch), you can freely apply horse hair. Just touching the horse hair to the hot pot causes the hair to burn leaving the carbon marks. Aren't they cool?