Mastering Mishima

I finally got some of the pieces I made at Christa's workshop I took this summer finished. I took the hammer to a couple as the glazes were just plain awful but this one came out pretty well...I think. I was inspired by many, many things in this workshop but the one I am using the most in my work is the mishima technique that decorates this saki set. I have gone crazy with it in my new work. The results I'll post when I get the work out of the kiln (if the hammer doesn't get them first).

There are 100 pottery blogs out there

Yesterday I received notification that Josie Goes To Pot is one of the top 100 pottery blogs. This honor is given by the Daily Reviewer. I have never heard of the Daily Reviewer but they didn't want any money so I am accepting this award and would like to "thank my mother, husband, agent and the academy"....
The best part about it is I didn't know there were 100 pottery blogs out there. Now I have many morning's worth of reading ahead of me. Thanks Daily Reviewer.

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Old School

Several years ago (and I am talking SEVERAL) I got hopelessly addicted to my kid's Game Boy game Tetris. I eventually got my very own little gray box and would keep it by my bed - switching on the eerie, vaguely Russian music and trying to lock in the fuzzy yellowish geometric forms before I even had my morning tea. My justification for being obsessed was that it would prevent Alzheimer's. Some how I overcame my addition and lost the box which was immensely freeing. Last week my daughter FOUND The Game Boy...UGH...and the batteries were still working. So guess what I am doing this morning after I write this? Maybe I'm loosing my buttons.

Speaking of buttons...Now that I am slab building I have been making buttons as I wait for my slabs get to be the right dryness to manipulate. Buttons are so fun to make and instant gratification. I make them on one day and leave them overnight to dry. I under glaze them and single fire them the next. I paint the background cards and sew the buttons on the next while watching whatever horrible thing I can find on TV at night. A 3 day pottery project start to finish.