kiln post no.2

Hey folks sorry things haven't moved as quick as I would like I got the car built today and the footprint set up should start on the walls tomorrow. but I have to quit early to go to a lecture at the Green Hill Center in Greensboro by Tom Suomalainen - of Walnut Cove NC, ceramic sculpture & watercolorist. I am looking forward to this his sculptures are incredible if you can make it do it!! I will get some pix up asap for y'all that are wanting to see or if you are in the hood stop on buy!
Cheers
Blaine

Well Its been awhile.... a lot has been going on lately but I haven't got much done around here. Some times life is like that though. The other mouth I got the electric kilns hooked up It took a lot longer than I thought but it came out nice! One of my neighbors that used to be an electrician came over and gave me a much needed hand I would tell you who he is but I am afraid he would get more work than he would like and the pay sucks.... Pottery! I started on rebuilding the car kiln this weekend got the tracks bolted down to the concrete it took a lot longer than I thought 4000 psi concrete is a pain to drill in. But I am all ready to go I should have it up in the next week or so and be firing soon. I have about three loads of bisque ready to go, some galleries waiting for pots and a dinnerware order to get to a customer. So check back over the next week and see the kiln go up. If your in the neighborhood drop on buy and see how its going.
Thats all for now
Cheers
Blaine

kiln pad with a bonus...

well, the kiln pad is poured...yea!...and I should be able to start working on rebuilding the kiln soon. it was a little bit scary for a while--that's alot of concrete coming at once. luckily I had some great help...thanks chad and david--and it looks really good.

when doing the underslab prep, I realized that I had way too much gravel inside the form, so I put in a walkway from The parking pad to the steps--i'm going to finish it off with some large rocks on the border. totally free walkway...gotta love it!

calling all concrete lovers......

anybody interested in helping pour a concrete/kiln pad on friday at 1:00? I could use an extra couple of hands--bring your boots and come on over......

have you heard this???

i heard this for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and i can't get enough--she's amazing. heard she just won best new artist on the grammies the other night. her name is adele....

glaze workshops...

I took a glaze workshop with John Britt a couple of weeks ago, and really enjoyed it. If you are interested in his workshops, check out his website, he has a schedule of his workshops there.

In other news, I i spent the day building the concrete forms for the kiln pad that will hopefully be pouring over the weekend...yea! it's long overdue--it's been hard to go without a kiln for this long, it will be great to get rebuilding it checked off the list. pics to come soon.................anyone for a concrete party?.....................

500 vases...

i love the 500 series that lark books does I have two images in the 500 bowls book--they are such beautiful books, with tons of amazing work. here's My entries for the 500 vases book that's coming out soon...

we got another light dusting of snow last night, not much, but enough to be really beautiful this morning. crazy--it was 60 degrees a couple of days ago, and this morning--snow!--gotta love north carolina weather...