Celebrating Summer

My favorite time of the year is fall so summer has always felt like a long waiting period.  And, in eastern NC, fall doesn’t come until October so the wait is even more prolonged.  Add high heat and humidity, and summer has never been a favorite season of mine. I...

Quiet week

It has been a quiet week – hot but quiet.  We loaded a glaze kiln, I mixed up 2 glazes, and I set up a sales display.  Tomorrow, I will throw pots which will make me feel like I have actually done something. I have been busy at my day job and with house things....

Sticks and More

Today, we took new pots to restock inventory at Sticks and More in Snow Hill, NC.  This was the first shop to host pottery by A Bit Off Center.  It is a cute store – actually it is a renovated petroleum station.  Although I am a potter by passion, I work for an...

Cupcake Stands

“When you look at a cupcake, you’ve got to smile.” – Ann Byrn Detail of incised lines LIme and Green Cupcake Stand Detail of rim Pink and Black Cupcake Stand Detail of Ruffled Rim Lime Fiesta Cupcake Stand...

More Glaze Notes

Although we have several glaze combinations that work well together, I am not done testing glazes.  I want to push the glazes that I know work well together to make my pots even more interesting.  I am experimenting with texture and ways to define space on a pot. ...

Know Thy Glazes

The focus of 2010 was to work out some glaze combinations that would enhance the functional pottery that we love to make.  In order to accomplish that, we made hundreds of small bowls.  (I had been making test tiles but after I had accumulated 2 buckets of unusable...