Having feelings

 

I have some feelings about these cups. 

• I feel annoyed by the glaze. It's not what I wanted. I was trying some things and none of them worked.
• I feel thrilled with the way they feel in my hand. They are light and comfy and the shape is really lovely.
• I feel grumpy about the handles. I succumbed to peer pressure and tried to pull handles. It's not my normal handle and the fact that I never pull handles really, really shows. 
• I feel like making more of these. As much as I'm dissatisfied by the way they look, I'm learning things about where I want to take this shape next.
• I feel weird about bullet pointing my feelings but here we are.

Moving on to the things I just got from a wood fire kiln I was allowed to put a few pieces into.

Here's my drama queen:

I love it so much! The texture, the toastiness of the raw clay, the little dots in the glaze.

Just YUM! 

I put the wadding on the side which warped the heck out of it. But that's cool. What's not cool is that it leaks! Just a little bit but that's all it takes. Such a drama queen!

This one leaks too. That's fine with me. I expected it to leak. I made it on a balloon, which was kind of precarious. The glaze bubbled up in a weird way inside. I would prefer the outside looked like this EXCEPT for the fact that the outside looks like this:

Which is lovely and varied and organic. So lovely. I used shino glaze on all the pieces and regret nothing.

This one is fine. It's fine. Whatever. It's what it is. I do love the raw clay and I really enjoy making the messy overlapping wee slabs of clay. It feels like patchwork and I do love me some patchwork. It's an odd shape - I used the bottom of a quart mason jar. I've done it before and honestly, I like the other one way more. I'll share a picture another day. That one is being used as a planter in my office cubical. This one doesn't know what it is.

These know what they are. They are mugs. They are magnificent. They are so gorgeous that the camera can't catch how delightfully metallic the glaze looks. I only lined it and used a titch of glaze around the rim. The rest is all from the wood fire.

Here's the whole wood fire gang. They are buddies...I assume. 

They haven't said otherwise.