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Thursday, April 14, 2011

A Little Coffee With That Donut?

A plug for the Etsy Mud Team's (EMT) Donut Challenge.  The team's clay artists created some lovely entries.  Please stop in and vote.  Also, if you do vote, you will be sent a 20% off coupon in email for use in select EMT shoppes.  My entry for the challenge.

I've been down with allergies.  So, I'm not getting much done.  I don't want to put my life on hold, but it's really hard to function intellectually with a snout, head, and chest full of phlegm.  I have been working hard to keep things from becoming more than an allergy attack.  Yesterday, the right side of my face hurt so bad I was afraid I'd need antibiotics after all for a sinus infection.  Fortunately, I stumbled upon the medicinal uses of apple cider vinegar.  I put 3 TBS in an 8 oz glass of water and drank it all at once.  This morning I woke with greatly reduced pain.  I took another dose of this preparation and by mid morning any residual tenderness was gone.  I'll keep to this regime until the phlegm clarifies. 

That said, I'm afraid I'll miss my window of opportunity to prepare a swap item for the trinket dish swap and a teapot submission though I have ideas for both. I'll make them anyway and put them up in my shoppe. 

The last kiln load was awful.  Three thermocouples failed and ruined almost all the items in the load.  On top of that, someone had put terracottaware on the cone 10 shelf.  You can get a good view of the mess in my facebook.  Not only did it slump as in the picture, one melted right off the shelf and down the side brick.

I've had an explosion (well for me) of sales in my shoppe of late.  So, I'm exstatic.  Unfortunately the items in the latest firing were many of them for the shoppe.  I hope we get to the reduction firing and the soda firing soon.  I have more lovely items coming out of them.

Well, that's all she wrote.  Have you "liked" my facebook page, yet? 

Tuesday, April 05, 2011

I'm Featured, Yes, I'm Featured . . . .

























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