On Monday, August 29, I’ll be participating in the Beads of Clay cyber sale. Use coupon code “bocblowout” to receive 25% off your entire order. For a full list of participants visit the Beads of Clay blog on Monday.

Irene will be in our neck of the woods this afternoon (Sunday). We’re already starting to get the driving rain. On that note, my internet has already been flashing on and off, so I’m not sure what will be happening over the next couple of days. If you place an order in my shop and don’t hear back from me right away, please be patient. In the meantime, the generator is filled with gas and I’m getting ready to pop a turkey in the oven–feels like the perfect day for comfort food. Since you’ll be reading this on Monday, I hope you “weathered” the storm safely.

Hubby repaired my little kiln (again) and I managed to get two bisque firings and one glaze firing completed.  I have a couple of other small dishes to fire, but there wasn’t enough room for them in the little kiln. Since then I’ve attempted another glaze firing which failed. My husband thinks he knows what the problem is (not the elements), so I’m hoping it can get fixed soon.

The rest of the pictures show what I’ve been working on today. I’m at the bottom of a bag of stoneware, so it was pretty stiff to work with. I probably should have made some beads to go with these pieces, but I got tired of fighting with the clay. I can wedge the clay with some water to make it more cooperative, but it’s not happening now.

I also have a collection of little itty bitty handbuilt prep bowls that need to be glazed. If Pete can’t get the little kiln to work I’ll have to start working on filling the big kiln up. If I filled it up with all pendants and beads I wouldn’t have to make anything else for 5 years–I’d have plenty for my shop!

Speaking of my shop, I’ve renewed some items that had expired a while back, and I’ve added some new bead sets and some pendants, so be sure to pop over and check it out!