July 29 kiln opening with snoware plates
lots of snowman plates from our snoware collection in today’s kiln opening photos.
New site to show examples and shapes
Our new site is coming along at expresslyyours.biz. It a site to show off some of the different shapes and examples of those shapes we are doing this year. It seems I’ve been working on it forever. Even though I still have a long ways to go I wanted to show it off and see [...]
Finished snowman bean pots in kiln
Yippee…two of the first snoware bean pots coming out of kiln today. Also a butter dish, fleur-de-lis star plate and a deep octagon shape snowman dish. I wanted to get these in the store this evening but it got too hot and I got too lazy. Will get them on tomorrow.
Getting ready for snowman bean pots
Getting ready to get a whole lot of snowman bean pots going. So far it seems to be a popular shape so I’ve been casting as many as I can. Had to slow down a bit as it has been so humid lately here in Colorado I wanted to give the molds a chance to [...]
More snowman plates and trays in kiln
More snowman plates and a swoop tray in today’s kiln opening. Some star, heart and square shapes. The hearts are a special order for our good friends up in door county. Their shop is ‘Tis the season if you happen to be in Wisconsin give them a visit.
Hooked wool snoware rugs
Just found a couple of these snowman rugs we were selling a few years back. These are nice thick hooked wool rugs we had made in India.
Super cute Wacky style snowman platters
I could not wait to show off these super cute snowman platters from our Wacky Snoware collection that Mom and Sis painted. Hard to tell what the colors will be as they sit before I start glazing but I know they are going to be fun and I just had to share. I’m off to [...]
Ultra high tech anti-flash ceramic photo setup
Since it is only about 100 degrees today I decided to turn on 6 additional light in our already hot photo area and make the high tech photo setup so I can take less time retaking photos. Most times I take around 10 to 20 just to get a half way decent photo of each [...]
Mid July and it’s hot, must be time for snoware
Well it’s mid July that means it’s time to start painting snowman ceramics again. Ha, like we ever stop. Well we are getting busy again on them and the latest kiln opening photos shows some snowman plates, platter and a divided tray from our Snoware collection.
Mugs, bean pot and old style snowman plates in kiln
Finally have some of the old style medium square snowman plates done. You can see two of them along with two personalized mugs and an Americana bean pot. Yup we still have requests for Americana and have even more in the works.