I’ll start today with a correction. The Empty Bowls breakfast throwing party is a week away on August the third. That gives us a couple more days to get ready, and….(drum roll please)..the mayor of Edmonton is scheduled to be one of the potters. Mayor Stephen Mandel is going to be one of the VIPs atending, as well as the Fire Chief , some of the Edmonton Eskimos and their wives, and possibly others. "The Big Breakfast" morning show on A-channel will be there as well. We should be able to have a lot of fun and create some bowls for the WinHouse auction later in the year. As I mentioned in a post to Clayart earlier this month, we don’t have a lot of money to donate to worthwhile causes but we do believe we should support the community as much as possible. This is our way of helping the Empty Bowls project.
Cindy finished trimming rice bowls and tea cups yesterday then tackled the first of the throwing for the Gift Show Lineup while I pugged clay.We currently have about a dozen finished pieces of pottery in the whole studio so everything has to be ready to show in two and a half weeks and none of it is done. No pressure! Here’s a picture of a few of the bowls she threw yesterday afternoon in an hour and a half.. There is another table with the big stuff on it just out of sight.
Today everything that was thrown was trimmed , handled, and is in the drying cupboard. She threw some more this afternoon , bean pots, souffles, etc. I had planned on making fish platters all day, however Rose from Panache Ceramics called to see if I could repair a couple of her kilns as she is facing deadlines as well. I went there at 10:30, didn’t make it back to the studio until 5 so no platters today. Want to do at least a dozen tomorrow. Images of Canada has placed their first orders for the end of August, so Cristmas is a comin!
The owner of the old bean pot came back by this afternoon. He is in his mid 70’s (guessing)and said the beanpot belonged to his Mother’s Mother. That would make it 150 years old anyway. It was definitely a turning point and inspiration for us to have it in the studio. Our new beanpots will rock, figuratively speaking of course, they will have level bottoms!
Nite