Another potters tour coming up. It 3:26 AM. Janet Runyan of Wild Apple Pond Studio is taking her turn stoking and I am resting  I finally snapped a few pictures today of what you might see when you come visit Little Mahoning Creek Pottery.  Kyle Houser is my guest and he has been making some great new work  ,   

May 1st and we just unloaded the wood kiln for the 1st time this year.  We also down fired the kiln after we flattened all the 11 's    Grad student Garick Tai-lee has been doing this with his firings at IUP . I equate it with walking a horse after it has been in a fast race. I liked it and I think it was good for the pots and kiln.. I had a couple of other 1st . I made some Terra Sig and tried that as well as some new forms.  I have tried to upload some pictures but the program  keeps shutting down. will send this and try again later.

First salt fire,  was not as reduced as I would have liked but I did get a  few good pieces . A pair of salt and pepper shakers and a refire. Show at the Hospital this week too.  A good way to start the season.  I am selling a french triple milled soap  to go along with soap dishes that I am making and using as glaze tests.   

empty bowls

Ok, so it has been a while. My friend Kyle, said "did I remember I have a blog, and yes I did hit a milestone this past december but I did remember I had a blog in my past life, any  way it has been a longer winter  but I  am finally going to fire the salt kiln tomorrow, but I wanted to post some pictures from the  Empty Bowls  soup sale that we had for the ICCAP food bank.  This year was the best , over 5000$  Here are just a few of the bowls.