Thursday, June 23, 2016

New soap and pottery...

 Been busy making soap and pottery.

Today I made a plantain-lavender-oatmeal goat milk soap. With lavender buds on top. I hope it's a good one.






Tuesday I made a rosemary-mint with fresh rosemary and mint from my garden. It smells amazing! And I've had people asking for eucalyptus soap, so I made a lemon-eucalyptus soap. It smells really nice.




Got the handles on the mugs and little pitcher. They are ready to go get fired. I'll take them next week.



These are some things I picked up yesterday from the studio.




I really love these bowls. I made 4 bowls and 4 mugs, all glazed in 2 blue glazes. When I got the yesterday, I was told to not do this again. Because the top glaze ran down and they all were stuck to the shelf in the kiln. Not a good thing. But I think they turned out so pretty.

If I can get them sanded down enough, I might be able to sell them. I shall see.. If not, we will use them.







This is my first vase. I finally got to use a glaze I love but that's non food safe. It's so pretty. I glazed a few yarn bowls with this too.




And my first ever yarn bowl. All glazed and ready to use. I have 4 more ready to fire too. It was fun making these. I hope to make many more.




I'm trying to stay inside as much as possible. In the 90's. And I need to get ready for the 2 farmers markets tomorrow. I got in the Erlanger hospital market! It's from 11-2 inside the hospital. I can only use a small 5' table and will have to condense all my stuff. Gonna be fun! Then the St. Elmo market from 4-7. And it will be in the mid 90's tomorrow too.

Listening to cool cello music makes all this look so pretty!

2 comments:

Linda said...

Kris I love your pottery.....its some of the prettiest pottery I have seen in a long time. I wish you lived close I would love to buy some. I love the colors of the pottery in the second picture. The blue on the top and then blending into a oatmeal color on the bottom. I think they are in the second pictures. You are doing a fantastic job!!!

Linda

Kris said...

Thank you. I like those too. But I was told to not use more than 1 color until I can make bigger things. I am practicing! But thank you so much for your encouragement. It means a lot to me.