Such a rich few months since the completed installation of the kiln – looks beautiful, doesn’t it?  Deb and I have fired it a couple of times but know we need to know so much more about it to make it really work.

In the interim since the summer, I’ve cleaned up a  wasp ground nest and released the queen (not me exactly doing this) canned with my friend Gladys (seems she and some of our friends have been doing this for years) made multitudes of Christmas cakes for the season with my friend Daphne (almost all gone) as well as spent many hours working in the studio throwing on the wheel, perfecting my inlay techniques (still having a challenge with over glazes) and casting my tiles.  I’m pleased with some of my work but still have a way to go.  I need to get some of my work photographed and update the website as well, but for the most part, the work has been steady and learning “what I forgot” is constant.

Debra and I were fortunate to take a workshop with Paul Scott at Emily Carr in the fall – lots of wonderful information but like anything, even though we went to work on the techniques right away, doing it is much harder than it looks.  However, it is good to be back in the studio – now, if I can just do the blog more consistently!