tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44622592820913895462024-03-13T15:12:12.772-07:00Kim Undseth PotteryKim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-24457541892007326082017-10-05T07:08:00.001-07:002017-10-05T07:08:41.106-07:00Where did the summer go?My last post was in April, yikes, I often forget about my blog. I think by the time I edited and upload my photos to facebook, instagram, square website and Etsy, I am done with computer time. I have had a crazy busy summer with lots of 12-14 hour days and usually working 7 days a week. It sounds like I am complaining but I am not, I am just tired. I committed to doing the local market every Saturday from June 18-Sept. 16, I did amazing all summer and I am so grateful that this little pottery business that I started 3 years ago now gives me a full time income! I ended the season with the annual Highway 1 studio tour and then I slowed down a bit, went for lunch with friends, went to the thrift store, and had coffee with friends all in one week. My amazing friends have been quite neglected over the summer months. <div>
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My hubby built this cute little barn for the studio tour, it was quite a hit with all ages!</div>
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My husband is the painter and he was also in the studio tour.</div>
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The discontinued section is always a huge hit at the studio tour, a good way to make room for all my new ideas!</div>
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I have made sooooo many mugs this summer, not complaining but I think I will do something else for the next few weeks.</div>
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Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-58167168071003021682017-04-19T08:30:00.001-07:002017-11-11T08:29:12.611-08:00Back on EtsySo after a year of closing my etsy store I am back. I closed my etsy store because I would keep selling the items at the market or in my store then I would have to deactivate the item. Plus it is hard to keep track of everything when it is busy but when I am slow it is really slow. Since January I have only had a couple thousand in sales, so my store is bursting at the seems. I am however about to get very busy again and may regret reopening my etsy store but I feel I need to diversify.<br />
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Here is a link to my etsy shop<br />
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Here are a few things you will find in my store. If you live in Canada, I suggest you shop from my facebook page as there is a better selection. Just go to my facebook page and click shop now.<br />
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I have closed my etsy account because it was too hard to keep track of my inventory so now it is all in one spot on my web page Kimundsethpottery.biz</div>
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<br />Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-74026243523156054052017-03-23T08:36:00.000-07:002017-03-23T08:36:54.249-07:00The power of second and third chancesYesterday I was so excited to open my kiln, it is always exciting when you have new combinations of glazes, however I did not have good results! I had to re-glaze at least half of my pots!! I am so glad that it is possible to re-glaze. Some of the pieces that I have re-glazed have turned out to be my most beautiful pieces. I never take pictures of things that are ugly so I have no before pictures but trust me they were ugly. This got me thinking about my own life, there have been a lot of really ugly moments in my life, really ugly but I didn't stay ugly. Some people do, stay ugly that is, they are bitter until the day that they die. Life throws really hard stuff at us at times and we can choose to stay in that place or we can allow the master potter to re-glaze us.<br />
I may have gone through stuff that no one else would ever want to go through. I have actual had people say that when they are feeling bad about their life they just think of us and feel that their life isn't so bad, not sure how I feel about that, lol. The point is I didn't stay ugly, I really feel that I am more caring, compassionate, non judgmental and more. <br />
I get so excited when I take pottery out of the kiln that used to be ugly and now it is beautiful, some time it takes up to 5 firings to get something beautiful. The only problem is, I can't recreate the piece, I can never achieve the same look again. Each of us goes through different ugly periods of our life and if we allow God to re-glaze us, he will turn the ugly into something beautiful but it won't look the same as anyone else, you will be uniquely different.<br />
Here are a few of my extra special re-glazed mugs!<br />
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Love this one!!</div>
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I wish I could recreate this combination, I love how it looks like fire.</div>
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<br />Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-10242125492352028382017-03-15T09:23:00.000-07:002017-03-15T09:23:33.165-07:00Succulent addictionI have been wanting to make succulent planters since last summer and I have just now got around to it. I am not the best at keeping house plants alive but apparently succulents are easy, we shall see!<br />
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I think this one is my favorite,</div>
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I just love this slouch planter!</div>
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<br />Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-84202360151627765532017-02-09T08:52:00.001-08:002017-02-09T08:52:21.782-08:00A much needed break!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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I just came back from a wonderful holiday! I went with my oldest daughter and 3 kids to Sea Brook Island in South Carolina, to my sisters house. My other sister and Mom met us there and we basically gabbed for 2 weeks and ate lots of food. My sister lives 1 mile from the ocean so we spent lots of time soaking up the vitamin D (sun) and letting the sound of the waves stripe all the stresses of life away! We saw dolphins almost everyday and even got to see an alligator.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I loved spending so much time with my Grand kids, Owen is 5 and his twin sisters are 10 months.</div>
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The beach was practically empty everyday. </div>
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Sea Brook was amazing and we will definitely be back. Now back to reality, which included a horrible nasty cold!</div>
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Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-76988279567614577442016-12-14T06:10:00.000-08:002016-12-14T08:31:55.483-08:00Learning and growing!The last two years have been a whirlwind of change. I started my first pottery lesson 2 years ago in the fall 2014, opened my store/studio, the spring of 2015. Yesterday I had to apply for a GST # because my sales were very close to the limit, crazy!!! <br />
So I have been using the square for taking credit card payments for the past year and I just found out that you can build a square store for free, that's right free, how did I not know this! Another great bonus is it will keep track of my inventory, woohoo, that will save me lots of hours.<br />
<a href="https://squareup.com/store/kim-undseth-pottery/">here is a link to my store</a><br />
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I love love these mugs, 2x of Oatmeal, 2x of Seaweed 3/4 down and 2x of Ancient Jasper on rim.</div>
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This, no clue, I thought I would remember but nope!</div>
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I need to write down everything. I do know there was 2 base coats of Oatmeal, I think Textured Amber brown on the bottom, then chun plum, Arctic blue, seaweed, Textured turquoise and I think Ancient jasper on the rim. </div>
<br />Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-39586543340843616232016-12-01T06:10:00.001-08:002016-12-01T06:10:56.239-08:00More glaze results<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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this bowl was glazed with the metallic silver.</div>
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First coat white opal, then Bermuda green with mazerine blue on the rim.</div>
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Love this bowl, however I would glaze it slightly different next time. I glazed the middle with white opal and rootbeer along the rim, where there was no white opal the rootbeer had some pitting. Next time I will glaze the entire piece white opal with rootbeer on the rim.</div>
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I think this is my favorite combination! 2 coats Oatmeal base, 2 coats seaweed 3/4 down rim, 2 coats Ancient Jasper along the rim.</div>
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For this bowl I used ravenscriag White and Floating blue with cool magic along rim.</div>
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This blog post is really more for me but you are welcome to gleam whatever you want from it. I need a way to document and keep track of the different glazes and the results. </div>
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For this bowl I used Textured Amber brown (TAB) 2 base coats. Then Overlapping stripes of Seaweed (S) and Ancient Jasper (AJ) 2 coats.</div>
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This bowl has 3 coats of Deep Firebrick Red (DFR) and 1 coat of AJ and S dripped on rim.</div>
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For this bowl I did x 2 base TAB and stripes not overlapping of Oatmeal x 2, dark green x 2, Smokey Merlo x 2, Red x 2 and Iron Lustre x 2. You really can't tell that I used different colors, so I won't be doing this combination again.</div>
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The glazes on this bowl are my glazes Robin's egg blue with Bermuda blue gaze around the rim</div>
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I used my own dipping glaze for the base coat of this bowl, Floating blue. Then (IL) x 2 and 0 on the rim. I also used Mayco's product Cascade on the rim. The cascade gave really nice effects with blending.</div>
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I love love this big fruit bowl, it is 11 1/2" in diameter which is fairly big for a slab bowl. It is hard to see in this picture but there are some spots that look metallic gold.</div>
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This bowl is the same combination that I used previously. x2 TAB base coat, overlapping stripes of AJ x 2 and Seaweed x2.</div>
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I also love the simplicity of this bowl 3 coats of FBR.</div>
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I didn't really like how this one turned out. The base coat is my dipping glaze, black. The stripes are Seaweed x2 and my floating blue glaze that I carefully poured on. Then in between the two colors I used some Cascade. The cascade did not react well with my Floating blue glaze and I had some crawling but I was able to add some glaze to the bare spots and refire.</div>
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I used my black glaze as the base coat, I poured it on. I also used Floating blue on the rim, poured on. 1 coat of Oatmeal on the rim with some cascade randomly painted around the rim.</div>
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I am really not sure what this is because it looks nothing like what I would expect but my book says it is 2 x TAB base and 2 x Oatmeal. Why there is purple I don't know, the mystery of glaze combining.</div>
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This bowl is 2 x Dark Green base 2 x AJ</div>
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I really like this combination. 2 x TAB base, 2 x IL from rim to 3/4 down and 2 x Oatmeal from rim 1/2 down. Hope that makes sense! </div>
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This is again my Sea Mist glaze. Robin's egg blue poured on base and Bermuda blue poured along the rim.</div>
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Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-10216930353439752672016-10-14T07:14:00.002-07:002016-10-14T07:15:30.517-07:00Playing with Amaco glazesThe last time I was at Plainsman Clay, I picked up some Amaco glazes. For the most part I mix my own glazes but I have been doing some new forms that work better with brush on glazes, plus I wanted to experiment with blend colors. Here are a couple of pieces that came out of the kiln yesterday.<br />
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This one is my favorite! I used Textured Amber brown 2 base coats and Ancient Jasper over 2 coats.</div>
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I wasn't very fond of this piece but it is my husbands favorite so I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder. For this piece I used 2 x Oatmeal base and 2 x Iron Luster over all.</div>
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<br />Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-15140672113576169952016-09-13T07:20:00.000-07:002016-09-13T07:51:57.861-07:00Going to market!Deciding whether to take my pottery to the market each week was a huge decision for me. I knew it would require a lot of time and strength, neither of which I felt I had. I like the easy life of having my studio in my home! However the market has been the best experience I have had with pottery thus far. Yes it is A LOT of work, packing, unpacking, packing and unpacking, I am definitely stronger at the end of the market season.<br />
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In this picture I have 8 crates, each week I figured out how to fit more crates in my little Ford Focus, now I am up to 11 crates. You have to bring your own tent, tables and chair, so that's a lot of packing. Also when you live in Saskatchewan you never know what the weather will bring and there were a few scary Saturdays for sure, one day I had complete strangers come and grab the legs of my tent because they could see it lifting off the ground even with the weights on each leg.<br />
I have absolutely loved getting to know different people, my life feels so much richer!! Speaking of richer, the market was also very good to me that way as well, which was awesome. Kept me very busy each week trying to replenish my stock though.<br />
Two more weeks left and I will actually treasure each moment it has really been a gift to me to be part of this wonderful community event. The atmosphere is beautiful, with live music each week, food, special events and great people!!Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-26985835840339400172016-08-13T07:08:00.000-07:002016-08-13T07:08:07.158-07:00When functional meets beautyI love bringing texture into my pottery! For the last year I have been doing slab work and the possibilities never end!<br />
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My latest obsession is my Vintage collection, I just love the lace! After the pieces come out of the bisque load, I paint oxides or underglaze on them and then rub off the extra with a wet sponge. </div>
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The bowls took me awhile to figure out as they kept cracking at the seems. I have realized that you need to be very careful with the bowls, let them dry slowly and pick them up very carefully until they have been fired.</div>
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At the moment I am working on dinnerware for this collection, so excited!!</div>
Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-7225723098935661352016-08-11T06:07:00.001-07:002016-08-13T07:08:24.723-07:00New essential oil jewelryAt the beginning of the year I decided I would post regularly to my blog but as you can see 6 months later that didn't happen. I really work hard keeping my facebook page up to date and I don't seem to have anything left for the blog or Instagram. I will continue where I left off and update you on my jewelry.<br />
A couple of months ago I started mixing up low fire glazes; I wanted my jewelry to have some color but in order for the clay to remain porous, so the pendants could be used for essential oils, the glaze needed to be a low fire formula The formula is very simple, 95% Frit 3134 and 5% EPK, then add the mason stain of your choice. This formula will cause crackles which for jewelry is awesome!<br />
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I also started stamping on metal, a fun way to add a little extra to each piece. The white pendant is glazed with a low fire glaze that I bought. The dragonfly is glazed with my glaze, with the addition of 7% Robins egg blue mason stain.<br />
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The heart is glazed with my glaze, with the addition of Bermuda green at 7%<br />
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This pendant is a combination of the two stains.<br />
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These little car fresheners are a new idea, put a little essential oil on the back and car will smell wonderful.</div>
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Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-35025989504976826502016-02-22T09:18:00.001-08:002016-02-22T09:41:03.780-08:00Essential oil jewelry!I am enjoying the whole jewelry making business, it really is addicting! I had a nice relaxing Sunday evening making some new pieces. It is starting to feel more natural, at first I felt completely out of my element but now they just seem to come together. Here are a few pieces that I made.<br />
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Each of the unglazed pieces are to be used for essential oils. I fire the pendants to cone 05, this leaves them porous making them the perfect vessel for essential oils. All of the pendants have been stamped with rubber stamps. Most of the pendants in the photos have been painted with underglaze, with the exception of the two glazed pieces.</div>
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I was finding that my feathers were breaking where the wire was attached, so I redid all of my feathers, wrapping them with very thin flexible wire. In this picture you can kind of see the green wire. I actually got this wire from Stampin Up years ago.</div>
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These two pendants have been glazed on both sides.</div>
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I love being creative and to be honest I get bored easily! The thing I love about pottery is that there is endless different ways you can use clay.Just recently I have taken up jewelry making. I don't usually wear jewelry, to speak of and have never made anything beyond a stretchy bracelet with kids. So I felt a bit out of my element in the jewelry making isle at Micheal's. Actually, I went to Micheal's a month earlier and the selection overwhelmed me so much so that I didn't buy anything. So this last time that I was there, I did quite a bit of research ahead of time, although I still felt I was jumping off a cliff. Not a big cliff mind you, just a $200., cliff. which by now has grown to $300-$400 because if you don't know what you are doing you kind of need a bit of everything. Thankfully I didn't need to buy beads!</div>
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Here is a picture of some of the pendants I made. I first rolled out the clay and then stamped the clay with some rubber stamps. You need to first sprinkle the clay with corn starch, to do this I put some corn starch in an old sock and when I tap the clay with it a little comes out. For these pendants I made holes using the kemper hole punch and I also used high fire wire. I wasn't sure how the wire would work but they all turned out except for one that cracked.</div>
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In this picture you can see how I fired the pieces that I glazed. You need to use high fire wire and something else I learned the hard way, you need to have some weight on top of the wire or it will slump and your pendants with fuse to the kiln shelve.<br />
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For a lot of my pendants I decorated them with underglaze so I wouldn't have to high fire the pendants leaving them somewhat porous so they can be used for essential oils.<br />
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The bird and the feather, in this necklace are made with a brown clay with grog, it is a sculpting clay. I wanted to be able to paint it with underglaze and then be able to sand it to reveal the brown clay; i was going for the rustic look.</div>
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My bird is a bit big but hey I will get better.</div>
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We have a few peacocks, two are under a year old so I don't know yet if they are male or female. Just the males produce these beautiful amazing feathers. Each fall they lose their feather and they grow back over the winter; so I have an endless supply. We also have chickens in all different colors, I may have to raid the coop,lol!</div>
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Each of these pendants have only been fired to bisque 05, meaning they are still somewhat porous, I have done that so they could be used for essential oils.</div>
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The yellow bead in this picture is also clay but has been glazed.</div>
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To create the rough edges on these pendants I actually ripped the clay, like you would a piece of paper.</div>
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I have also been soldering some of my broken pottery which I will share in a future post.</div>
Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-611178842977089502016-01-16T08:00:00.001-08:002016-01-16T08:20:20.611-08:00Commissioned work!Over the last year I have had a few orders for commissioned pieces. Commissioned work always scares me a bit, afraid that what I am seeing and what the customer wants is two different things. So far in every situation it has been a good thing and usually the item gets added to the studio. I had a lady order kids plates and she wanted funny animal, so I practiced on my Grand kids and niece.<br />
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<br />Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-7454949115585702642016-01-14T05:24:00.000-08:002016-01-14T05:24:12.607-08:00Rolling with the punches!My days are filled with joy and disappointments. I made this beautiful tray, it was 18" x 12", I attached lace impressed detailed clay to make ruffles. I would show you this beautiful tray but it is in pieces, my shoulder caught it and broke off a chunk. This morning I was checking the drying pieces and noticed a crack forming on one of my plates. If I am going to go with the whole punch metaphor thing, then the platter was an all out fight, punches to the gut head and a kick to the knee, the plate was a punch in the arm. Before pottery, I would paint and make cards, everything turned out every time which is the way I like it! At the same time, I never ventured very far out of my little box of perfectionism! I will make the platter again, probably today, well maybe not I am still too raw but when I do, it will be even better then before. Nothing is for sure with pottery but I do find I am getting better and at some point I won't be afraid to try anything!<br />
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Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-4280552684860045402016-01-13T18:05:00.000-08:002016-01-13T18:05:04.155-08:00First glaze firing in the new kiln!I love my new kiln! I was able to program a firing schedule which I got from, Digital fire Insight, this program fires the pottery perfectly! As apposed, to my previous, hap hazard firings, some over cooked, some under cooked and some just right, lol! <br />
I am writing this as I wait for the temperature to go down on the kiln, it is at 572 F and needs to be below 150 f, before I can open it. I did however take a peek and it is looking good! <br />
Here are a few of the pieces I took out of the kiln. The colors are rich and beautiful; love this kiln!<br />
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<br />Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-35541248274398021242016-01-09T06:09:00.000-08:002016-01-09T06:09:01.579-08:00Textured slab plates!My hubby got me this roller for Christmas, it is an "Xiem roller"; it works great. I did have a bit of a problem with even pressure but once the glaze is on it won't be noticeable.<br />
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First, I took a lump of clay and rolled it out to 3/16". To roll out the clay, I used a fondant roller, Walmart sells them in their crafting section, they have guides on either end for thickness. I have seen other people just use a couple a couple thin pieces of wood and a regular rolling pin. Once you have rolled out the clay you need to compress the clay. To do this, I used a red rib and went over it twice, evenly, in two different directions on both sides of the clay.</div>
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Once you have the texture on the clay, you lay the clay on the mold of your choice, in this case I used a plastic plate from the dollar store. You need to spray the mold with cooking oil or cover it with Saran Wrap; if you don't do this your clay will stick to the mold.</div>
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I use a needle tool to trim around the plate. Just run the needle against the edge of the plate; I start in the middle on each side and then go either way!</div>
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Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-4482374237707579652016-01-06T10:23:00.000-08:002016-01-06T13:38:26.469-08:00New kiln!!!!I am beyond excited! After 14 months of using this relic, I got a new kiln!<br />
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To fully understand what this will mean for me, let me explain my firing process with the old kiln. Every hour I would flip one switch, this took a total of 7 hours. After 2 hours of firing, I would check the kiln every 15 minutes, this usually took about 2-3 hours. After that, I would manually, do a cool down, meaning I would flip off all the switches for 15 minutes to drop the temperature then I would flip 4 of the switches back on for 30 min. So as you can see, on firing days, I could never leave the house. One of the last times I was firing, I needed to leave the house and couldn't; not a good feeling! Another issue I had was the temperature differences, the middle of the kiln would get way hotter than, the bottom and top, in some cases this resulted in beautiful pottery but usually it resulted in disasterous ugly blisters!</div>
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With the new kiln I basically push a button and that is it!!! So now you can see why I am so excited!</div>
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When I first started pottery my funds were low, so all the pottery I sold went into supplies and savings! Thanks to all my customers, after the Christmas season, I had more then enough funds for a new kiln! I am sooooo thankful to all those that have supported this new passion of mine (pottery)! I am excited for what this next year holds! My mind is exploding with all sorts of new ideas! </div>
Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-40591207616326900402015-03-24T14:23:00.000-07:002015-03-25T12:15:22.363-07:00The beginning!I have always wanted to learn pottery. One of the things that stopped me from learning besides the fact that I don't like to leave the house, was the cost of everything. I knew that if I took the course I would want all my own stuff, wheel, kiln and everything else that goes with pottery, which is a lot.<br />
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Within in two weeks of lessons I was hooked and began trying to figure out how I could make pottery in my own home. My husband was amazingly supportive and every time I said, "well that won't work", he had a solution. For example my question was, "where would I clean my buckets" because I didn't want to plug up the drains. So he put in a sink that drains right into the ground. "Where would I throw" because it is Very messy, he said, "how about the storage room, we could put all are storage stuff in the old cistern". <br />
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I started looking for used equipment, without much success, so for my birthday my hubby said he would buy me a wheel, which is about $1200. new. So I was then looking for a used kiln because new they are anywhere from $3000-$20,000. Not even close to my realm of possibility.<br />
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During this time of looking we had a missions conference at our church. This young man shared a powerful message of giving up everything for Jesus, material possession, home, everything, him and his wife were on their way to Turkey to live as missionaries. I was so convicted that I just laid on the floor and told God that I lay down my desire for pottery if it wasn't his will for my life. After the service My husband told me that during worship he saw a picture of a potter forming a jug. I thought how funny is that, I was laying down my desire and God was showing my husband at the same time a picture of pottery.<br />
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So with renewed energy I started looking again. I phoned a lady that I knew had a kiln for sale even though I knew it was sold. I thought maybe I could be put on a list in case the other lady backed out. While talking to her, she told me of a lady that lived close by, that was also selling her kiln. I gave this lady a call and not only was she selling her kiln, she was selling everything. 2 kilns, wheel, clay, chemicals for mixing glazes, wedging table, lots and lots of wooden bats, seriously everything I needed and more for, drum roll please, $750.. So of course I said we would take it all!<br />
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That night we cleaned out the storage room and put everything from the storage room into the cistern. My husband found two signs in the cistern from the previous owner, God is so funny and amazing, if there was any doubt I was suppose to do this, there wasn't after seeing these signs.<br />
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The lady I bought everything from was so happy that it was going to someone as excited about pottery as she used to be. She bought everything from a potter that was moving. At the time she was very pregnant, so didn't get to use anything, turned out her baby had down syndrome so she never did get to use the supplies in the 8 years that she had it.</div>
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My husband is amazing! While I am drinking coffee and writing this post he is painting my new gift store. Might have a bit to do with the fact that the pottery is taking over the house. This is my living room, seriously, no room to put the stuff I took out of the kiln last week.</div>
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Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-52507026037178412482015-03-21T15:18:00.001-07:002015-03-21T17:07:24.696-07:00Spiritual insight from a bowl!I love how I can be making a bowl and at the same time learn something very deep spiritually. One time in particular, I was making some large bowls out of my reclaimed clay. I was making large bowls so that I could use up the clay faster. I hate reclaimed clay, it is so much harder to work with but being a new potter I have a lot of it, it comes from the trimmed off pieces, stuff that doesn't turn out, etc. Continuing with my story, I was making a large bowl and I could not get the clay centered. I didn't want to give up, I just wanted to use the clay and be done with it. So even though I couldn't center the clay I went ahead and made the bowl. When it came time to raise the walls it was wobbly, so I slowed the speed way down and gradually brought the walls up. I really didn't think that the bowl would be very pretty but when I trimmed it up I carved a design in it and was quite pleased. To my surprises when I flipped the bowl over their was a speck of wood stuck in the side of it, no wonder I couldn't get it centered. Let me back up a little. I threw the bowl Monday night, Tuesday morning I went to ladies prayer at my church and we prayed about seeing people the way that God sees them, not judging the speck in them but overlooking that and just loving them. When I flipped the bowl over and saw the speck of I immediately picked it out (oh how I wish I had left it, at the time I did not get the spiritual connection at all). That night I was visiting with my pastor and he mentioned how someone can do one thing wrong and that's what people remember, they could of had years of good but people see that one bad thing and can't see beyond that. So I shared with him that we had been praying about that in the morning, (pretty cool). Still not getting the spiritual connection, I randomly told him about my bowl. He immediately said, "I think there is a lesson in that", and I said, "NO I like my clay to be perfect, I don't like using reclaimed clay, I like fresh clay straight from the bag"! I do a lot of thinking while driving and on the way home after saying that I started to put the pieces together, wow!<br />
God delights in using reclaimed clay, that's all he uses, he takes our messed up lives and gently works us together and then starts to form a vessel for His purposes. He is not concerned about our specks, He just slows the speed down and gently forms us. I wish I hadn't picked out the speck because it would of just burned up in the fire. I like people to be perfect and when they are not I quickly without even thinking about it, pick out their speck, in the process hurting them.<br />
The scripture I have been referring to is Matthew 7:3, "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?"<br />
I need to be more gentle with people because none of us, are without specks or logs. However it wasn't long after this revelation, that I tried picking out a speck, in someone, Again. The good thing is I recognized it and hopefully in time, I will not even see the specks! Also I am learning to love reclaimed clay, okay maybe love is too strong of a word but like. When you use reclaimed clay you are literally taking waste and making something useful and often beautiful. When I use new clay I expect it to turn out, and when it doesn't I am very disappointed. I get much more delight in a piece when it turns out if it was made from waste. God picks us up out of the miry clay and sets our feet on a rock, also scripture. We are the reclaimed clay, I was a mess without Jesus! I love how he is molding me and shaping me. I have even gone in the fire a few times and had some specks burned out but that is another story a very painful story, I am sure we could all insert some hard times in here. Some times I even need to fire a piece of pottery up to 4 times I have heard of people firing 8 times. The good thing is, we don't need to change other people, God does that and He is so gentle and patient. We just need to encourage each other in this journey called life, look for the good, see the work in progress. Each life is precious, which reminds me of a friend of mine. I had some pottery that was my beginning pieces and they were, ugly and heavy and destined for the dump. My friend came over and rescued many pieces because she couldn't stand for them to be thrown away. The interesting thing is she is a rescuer of people as well, she sees the best in everyone and hopes for them, believes in them, literally lays her life down for them. as does her husband; they are both such an inspiration to me.<br />
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<br />Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-48081520325609065332015-03-20T15:32:00.001-07:002015-03-20T15:36:32.380-07:00Kiln opening!!I love kiln opening days, it is just like Christmas! I usually don't sleep much the night before and often dream about pottery. Once you load the kiln it takes about 9 hours to fire, then you have to wait until it cools enough to open, usually a full 24 hours unless you are like me and I am usually in there 3-4 hours early. I had some wonderful surprises, I tried something different for me and loved it!!!<br />
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This is the first time I have made a mug shaped like this but it won't be the last for sure. I love how it feels in my hands. I test drove it, and it delights all of the senses, feels nice, looks peaceful and relaxing and of course the coffee was awesome. Of course I didn't hear anything but this mug made me so happy, that my spirit has been singing all day, not a lie. My mind is exploding with new ideas and I can't wait to try them!!<br />
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<br />Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462259282091389546.post-12956771170868808922015-03-17T09:13:00.001-07:002015-03-17T11:18:04.976-07:00New BlogAfter a full day of loading my kiln, I went to go outside for a nice relaxing hot tub. I usually wear my shoes, due to the snow but I looked and no snow. So I took off my shoes and with a little excited hop, because of the lack of snow, I went outside. Well my feet flew up and my butt/back came down. My first thought and I am not lying was, "I hope I can sit at my potters wheel", a little addicted I think.<br />
So this morning I thought why not make lemonade out of these lemons and start a blog. I started pottery in September of last year, so 6 months ago. I didn't think I would ever get the hang of it and then all the sudden after hours and hours and hours of throwing, I got it. I am so addicted to the process I don't think I could stop even if I wanted to which I don't. I love that you can take a lump of clay and make something useful and pretty.<br />
The process of making pottery is healing to the body, not all the chemicals and silica dust which I have heard are quite harmful, but emotional healing. I don't know if I can attribute it to one aspect, but sitting at the wheel with your hands in the clay while the wheel turns is very meditative. The parallels with God and how he forms us has been a spiritual healing as well. I have seen scripture in a new light since starting pottery; some of those things I believe need to be shared. So I will be sharing as I go, on this blog some of the interesting things God teaches me, as I have my hands in the clay. I don't know what I learned about my fall except maybe don't trust what you see (black ice) I should of trusted my first instinct which was putting shoes on. <br />
I hope to be a fairly regular blogger but we shall see.Kim's Creationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03421653152826016116noreply@blogger.com0