Happy Beltane Giveaway!

Happy Beltane!!

Happy Beltane!

This year I am giving away a slightly second altar set.

These poor little dishes need a good home! They are sweet and gorgeous, but so unappreciated! If you don’t mind a little ‘personality’ in your pottery, this set is for you! Each one of these pieces has a little something that is not quite right. It is a small flaw for each one, but a flaw that would make it so that it would be hard to sell in the shop.

But each one looks great, and will work well on the altar.

Since these all look so well together too, I decided to make them a set.

If you would like to win them, just leave a comment along with how I can contact you (your etsy name, twitter, facebook, or something!).

In your comment let me know how your Spring is going, and your plans for Summer.

Comments will be open until Midnight, May 2 (Monday night). Then I will choose one comment at random to win the whole set. Its that easy!

And while you are out and about, please check out my shop on Etsy, antb.etsy.com.

So, get to commenting, and HAPPY BELTANE!

EDIT: Some folks tell me they cannot comment here. If that happens to you, please use the 'convo' feature at Etsy and let me know you are interested and I will put your name in the hat. Or let me know on the Regretsy forum, or Twitter or wherever you saw me post this. I will be sure to put you in the running.

Of Memes and Mugs

I just had to share these new mugs I made.

I will post more about memes, and what they are and why I love them, but tomorrow is a BIG DAY, so I will just post the photos of the mugs, and let them speak for themselves:

More Kiln Pics

The kiln was finally cool, so here is a preview of the pots inside, layer by layer:

My favorites are the patens with the melted glass, and the dragon bowl. Danny's tea bowls came out beautiful, and yes, there are more skulls.
Ugh.

Waiting for the kiln to cool...

My second glazed load in my new kiln is cooling, and still much too hot to unload. It is at 550 degrees.
But, I did pop open the top just long enough to snap this photo:So far, so good! Though, from a close up look at the photo, the bowl right in the middle has some glaze bubbles, so it is destined to be sent on to mosaic heaven, if the picture is correct.

Bummer.

But the others look pretty good!

Ooooh, I can't wait!

First Glaze Kiln

I unloaded my first glaze kiln full today. The kids were home, along with some friends. I bought some sparkling cider and we all unloaded together, and when it was empty we toasted the new stuff.

Some of the glazes were different colors than I expected. The blue glaze looked just about the same as the green sometimes. The white didn't react well with some of the other glazes.

But mostly it was wonderful to open the lid and see all the great pottery.

What fun!