Hot and humpy

Wait a minute ... that doesn't sound right!

Well, it was hot today for sure and today found your heroine (that would be me, in this particular case) at the farmers' market in Culpeper peddling my pottery. The good news is that the tent did not blow over nor was any pottery broken in the process. The bad news was that no pottery was sold and it was - indeed - hotter than hell. Or balls if you don't believe in hell.

I did come home with locally grown corn, tomatoes, butternut squash and spaghetti squash. Tonight's dinner included corn and the butternut squash (they were tiny).daecabhir

Once I got home from the market and cooled down, I set about unloading the kiln after yesterday's glaze firing. The good news is that flocculating the Coyote desert sage seemed to do the trick on most pieces (the re-glazed items got better but not quite what I want); the pieces that it worked on have great color. Sadly I lost three pieces in this firing. Lots of lessons learned nonetheless...

• Coyote's blue-purple over Ellen's blue simply is not worth the risk anymore. Several pieces ended up with air bubbles - including a sexy yarn bowl. Ellen's blue on top of Coyote blue-purple tends to work well most of the time.
• Coyote's blue-purple works best on flat surfaces.
• Once the Coyote blue-purple is gone, I will most likely not replace it.
• The two Laguna glazes that dreamtigress bought to experiment with are fun but will most likely make my regular line-up.
• Said Laguna glazes are going to need a higher-than-my-normal "no glaze zone' around the bottom of all pieces since they tend to be a runny. (Two of the three pieces that were ruined used the Laguna glazes.)

And just in case my readers forget, I have the best husband in the universe. Once again, he stuck a love note into my sales bin for me to find upon setting up at the show. daecabhir rocks my socks and I wasn't even wearing any socks today!