Small bowls

Small bowls

Small bowls – great for a small amount of dip, salsa, peanut sauce, and much more.

Small bowls and pots – great for nuts, chives, sour cream, cilantro… and more….

A variety of candle holders.

Candle holders, use a citrinella candle for on your patio or deck…

I have been a potter for over 40 years. Over the years I have made a large variety of pieces and love making large pieces and small pieces. I have a large variety of pots out in stores and galleries in the Kootenays (Yes Please, Unwind More Than a Yarn Store & Kootnay Gallery; all in Castlegar, Gallery 2 in Grand Forks, and Artisan in Trail). I also have  many pieces in my home studio. In the next few days I hope to share some of the pieces I have in my home studio.

Mead, wine, port, sherry, liquer goblets. Largest 3 1/2″x 3″.

Mead, wine, port, sherry, liquer goblets. Or, dessert cups.

Wine, mead, port, sherry, juice and more…..

Largest cup: 3″x3″.

Small goblets…

Candle holders, jewelry holder, juice, port, sherry, liquer…

Making pottery, of course, takes time, so with Valentine’s Day in mind I worked on some “heart” pots. Heart shaped dishes and hearts stamped on pots and then of course glazed them red.

Mugs

Heart dishes

Red bowls

Small cup

I love making vases, there is something about playing with the shapes. I like to see how tall, how narrow, how round, how small I can get. These vases are 8 14″ for the tallest one and 3″ for the shortest one.

Yesterday, I did my last glaze firing before Christmas  I was pleased with how most of the pots turned out. Here are some of the green ones.

Large open bowl, 11″ x 2″

Side view of lge, open bowl, 11″ x 2′.

Square, green dish, 8 1/4″ x 2″

Side view of square, green dish.

Green cream & sugar

Green bowl.

Next Friday, Nov. 24, 4 pm – 7 pm and Saturday, Nov. 25, 10 am – 2 pm, the Trail Pottery Club will be holding their 1st Annual Pottery Sale in the VISAC Gallery.

I have been working on Christmas Tree Ornaments. Yesterday I got them all out and sorted them and started adding ‘string’ to the ones which still needed string. I will have some of these ornaments at the ‘1st Annual Pottery Sale’ next week.

All of the ornaments spread out so I can see which ones work.

Snowflakes.

Bike ornaments.

Bear Ornaments

Shapes with bike impressions.

Tree ornaments.

More tree ornaments.

I’ve started loading my kiln with a glaze load. I always try and make the best use of the space so usually have small pieces to fill in small spaces. These small pieces are usually hearts and maple leaves for brooches and bears and trees for Christmas decorations. Glazing all these small pieces is also very time consuming. I usually like to have some large pieces for each shelf, but this load has more mugs cups and smaller pieces.

Glazed and ready to fire.

Some of the booches I make.

Glazed and ready to fire.

With 1 day until our  “Shop Local’ Market”, I’ve started to sort and organize my pottery trying to decide what to pack.  I’m going to take my selection of dark blue (Colbalt Blue) pottery. Here are some examples of what will be on sale Saturday, Oct 14 at the Cornerstone Cafe in Warfield. Hours 10am – 4 pm