Electric kiln firing, birthdays, visitors and presentations
So, a crazy weekend of firing the soda kiln (for 31 hours) and fitting in writing a magazine article about The Ceramic House for Pretty Nostalgic Magazine and mixing 16 glazes, wow it makes me feel short of breath just remembering how non stop and busy it’s been!
Closely followed by the commencing of the glazing for the electric firings.
Monday was my birthday, beautifully spent furiously mixing glazes and glazing everything in sight. I did actually stop at 6pm in time to prepare myself for a wonderful birthday feast, which ended up being a bit of a surprise because so many new people arrived on that very day and then several more people came who had been invited especially, so many we couldn’t remember who we’d actually invited! It was really sweet; everyone rallied to the occasion; Jim Lawton made Bouillabaisse, Rachel Van Wagoner made a monstrous Danish birthday layer cake, I bought some incredible cream bunny concoctions, and they even made a Happy Birthday banner and decorated everything with Danish flags. It was wonderful. Quickly followed by a change out of my party dress into my studio gear and then Egle and Won offered to help me glaze and pack the kiln, which was a godsend. It was because of them that I got that first main electric glaze firing on at 2am the night of my birthday.
Won even helped me again the following day, April Fool’s Day, to finish glazing everything that was left over and we shared another glaze firing.
Also Asger Kristensen came to visit, and dropped off boxes of his work and of Lone Borgen and Karen Harsbo. So I now have many, many boxes of artists’ work to try to fit into my already overfull car! Apparently Rachel, who is the studio manager here, is a wizz at packing, and she may say we will fit in all in but I have my doubts. She hasn’t seen all the boxes!
Tonight I did a presentation of my work to all and sundry, which is quite a few now as many new artists have arrived in the last 2 days. All of a sudden we are quite a posse, 12 or 13 I think. But for me it’s down to my last two days now…still got a LOT to do!
