The kiln is on again today – another
bisque. It was infinitely easier to pack this time round and for some reason
seems to have taken no time at all to fire. Such is life with pots! But anyway,
while the kiln is clicking away in the background I thought I’d catch up with
some blogging.
A theme seems to have developed over
the course of this year so far. In January I blogged about a small batch of
hand-thrown candleholders I was commissioned to make. These also popped up in
photographs I took of my first bisque firing in my kiln: both as pre-fired and
post-fired pots. So it seems only natural I should blog about them again as a
finished product.
I hope you’ll agree they’ve come out
beautifully! I decorated them in two different glaze styles. One of these was
using two glazes on the same pot: a deep honey brown glaze for the body with a
small highlight of blue/grey on the handle. The other style was an all-over
design using an olive green ‘wood ash’ glaze. I’ve already sold all the brown
ones but the ‘wood ash’ ones are available for sale in both my Folksy Shop and
my Etsy Shop as of today.
As I suspected, I ended up keeping
one of these candleholders for myself….
