bisque, glaze, throw and ride! oh my!

what's up masses? you miss me? nice monday morning up here in the northwest territories, minus 12 Celsius and a little light snow dusting everything, there is a still a shit-ton of hoarfrost out there making the world seem pretty surreal. my mom and sister got back home today after a month long visit to china, i'm pretty excited to hear all the stories and everything but it gotta deal with a day of work first. after helping them with their luggage i grabbed my bike out of the back of the van and took off to the print shop. it was a nice ride into town and i was really looking forward to it, i got some new gear i've been itching to test and they seem to work a treat, and not a frozen one. i also took 'em for a test run on saturday night to the pub... i had been in the studio all day and was so hungry i could have eaten crispy beaver urethra.

the Jacket is an MEC Juggernaut which, despite it's light weight is freakishly warm sometimes even too warm when i'm busting ass through deep snow. i like my new Solomon elf boots as well. they are warm, dry and light... but at the moment they are pretty stiff so they obviously need a little love, care, ware and abuse. the socks are pretty bad ass, they are padded up the shin and provide extra insulation, also the wicking actually works, usually i just dismiss that "feature" as an outrageous claim like "no drip teapot" all you potters know what i mean... if you claim your teapot doesn't drip you are a dirty liar! and honestly who cares anyway? but anyway back to socks... the wicking works! it was nice to come to work with dry socks and not have to change into a fresh pair. anyway the only downside to being back on the bike is that i can't go home at lunch to work in the studio... oh well it is a fair trade 'cause the riding is like Milla Jovovich... absolutely beautiful.

so i hope everyone had fun on the weekend, i was mostly working in the studio throwing the last of my mugs and tankards, unloading bisque, mixing glaze and turning around the kiln for a glaze fire... all a lot of fun and i have a better feeling about this upcoming sale... it is good to get work done. i haven't taken photos from the glaze fire yet, but i expect i will do so tonight... i have at least 2 more firings that i have to fit in this week (one bisque and one glaze and a possible third glaze, yikes!) i hope to get the bisque going tomorrow evening... just waiting for some things to dry and i still have to clean a few handles... it is half loaded though and things are looking good. i'll be sure to snap some pictures of the last glaze fire this evening and get them up... some cool results from a previously underused glaze: ox-blood red! with real oxen plasma harvested from an ancient race of blood oxen found deep in the cave of bovine time, ancient, still and tasty... mmmm sacrificial!

havin a glass of hemoglobin laden liquid, this is brandon sayin' "don't just recycle, recycle to the extreme!"