Happy Halloween!

It is almost Halloween but the crafting for Christmas has already started! I am working on a bunch of stuff and hopefully I will have enough to do First Sunday in Pittsboro again this December. The main thing that I am working on is elvin hoodies. There will be a bunch of Holiday ones but lets face it.....It's fun to be a Elf all year long.
I will also be making other stuff like the mushroom ornament you see below. It has a pipe cleaner on the bottom that you wrap around the branch.
Have a Happy Halloween!
Kate

Happy Autumn!

Happy Autumn!
This past weekend, Randy and I made this wreath. We gathered most of the supplies from the woods behind our apartment. The leaves we got at the craft store but the rest of the pine cones, sticks and pine sprays we gathered ourselves! Randy was the designer and I put it all together. I did have a couple of ideas myself but I have to admit, the most of the ideas were not mine this time.
Have a wonderful October !
Kate

JimGin Farm Art Exhibit

Today I went to the opening of the art exhibit at JimGin Farm in Chatham County, North Carolina.
It was really nice. The weather was great and the art was amazing. I took a few pictures but there was so much to see I couldn't get it all.
The exhibit runs Saturday evenings through the end of September.
If you are local and want to check it out just drop me a note and I will be happy to give you some more info.
Kate

The two pictures below are "Grazing Balls". I loved them. They really funny. Just imagine seeing that while hiking in the woods.

Feeding Frenzy and Garbage Wallet

It is a feeding frenzy! I like to think that the hummingbirds are just being playful when they body-check each other away from the feeder. They are just addicts, hooked on the juice.
This week I have been trying to be creative without purchasing anything new. I was looking on YouTube and saw a tutorial about making stuff out of plastic grocery bags. Well, the first thing you do is cut the top and bottom off of a plastic bag. Turn it inside out so the writing is on the inside. Then overlap it so it is 8 layers thick. Put the bag between two pieces of paper and iron it. Keep the iron constantly moving, so the plastic melts evenly. Once it is melted into a firm plastic sheet you can sew it into stuff.
What I did was take two different colors of bags that I had fused together and cut them into 1/2 inch strips. I then wove them into a wallet sized sheet, which I then ironed again to make solid. This made the front of the wallet. Then I used two other fused bags, one to make the large money pocket and one to make the two inside pockets for license or credit cards. I then sewed it up by hand using embroidery thread and bias tape on the edges.
Well, there it is, wallet made out of trash and left over craft supplies.

Kate

Herbs

Well it is the end of another great pottery class. Here are a couple of seconds that a friend gave me that have been laying around her studio in a box.
She was so right...they are great for a back porch herb garden. I have already been able to use fresh herbs in a couple of recipes and wow what a difference.
Kate

I like it in Black and White

Here is the most recent pottery that I finished.
I bet you are wondering why the picture is in black and white. Well, the truth is, I hate the color they turned out. Also, the positioning in the photo is the only way to look at the pieces without seeing the fact that the glaze crawled off in a bunch of spots on all three. Well, at least they match. Hmmm.

Ok.. ok.. Here is the true color.

Kate

The lid FITS!

I am so thrilled! This is the first piece that I absolutely love! I was so happy when I saw it completed that I had to kiss it! The lid fits perfect! Not too loose, not too tight.
The glaze didn't do anything weird like crawl or slip off.
Yay!
The glaze is eggshell. It has been my recent favorite.

Happy Day!

Kate

Some new stuff

Here is a bowl that I made. I really love the way the bottom turned out. The eggshell glaze looks so nice over the dark clay. I think that I will do more like this in the future. Intentionally make them really thick so I can trim the heck out of them.

Here is a set of His and Hers matching mugs.
Or if you are the open minded sort, they could be
Hers and Hers matching mugs or His and His matching mugs.
Lets just call them mugs.

Hope that you are having a great week.

No Open Studio

I just found out that there will be no open studio this summer. What this means is that I will not be able to practice on Saturdays. I will only be able to work on pottery on Weds nights from 6-9. That really stinks because I feel as if I spend the whole class setting up and cleaning up.
Well, I guess I will survive.
-Kate

Moon Moth

I went out on my porch today and look what I found! It's a moon moth! Yay!

Kate