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What's with the search dog on MicroSoft?
I have a new computer at work and I feel like I need to say "Good Boy" everytime he retrieves a file for me.

I was attacked!

The weather has been perfect for motorcycle riding, I just can't get enough. Well today I was riding home and I was stung. I thought a bee hit my neck and stung me, but an instant later the bee (which turned out to be a yellow-jacket) flew in my jacket and down my shirt. Of course I got stung again. So, I pulled out of traffic, put the bike in neautral, put the kick stand down, and unbuttoned and unzipped my jacket. The yellow-jacket flew out, not before it bit me again. I rode home and bactined the heck out of my chest. Two bites and two stings. I had to keep my cool while the damn thing kept biting and stinging me. Bring it on!

bunny vase

This vase is handbuilt with a clay called Grogzilla. How totally cool is that? It has these pieces of feldspar that when fired to cone ten just jump out of the surface of the clay body. I used some locally made underglazes for the bunny, which to my surprise came out quite bright even in a very heavy reduction firing. The greenish glaze is called green shell which was applied and then wiped off. I just entered this into a juried show called feats of clay. http://www.lincolnarts.org/featsofclay.htm It's being juried by the editor of Ceramics Monthly. It's a long shot that I'll make it into the show. I also entered three of the 10 perfume bottles "scents of the sea".

My Birthday Present

For my birthday on the 28th I asked for a Thermos and a Motorcyle. The reason I wanted a thermos was so I could tote my coffee to work with me when I ride my Vespa and the reason I wanted a motorcycle is... well, they're fun!!
So in the morning my husband had two gifts for me and I opened the first one and it was a thermos. Then when I got home from work I opened my second present and it was a bigger thermos. Then later on that night he took me to the motorcycle store! He wanted to get me an Kawasaki KLX250, but they are not sold in California. I had been eyeing the little ninja ex250's so we cheked Craig's list and found the perfect bike!

Kimmy and Libby

Here I am on my Scooter named Libby.

Earth Meets Water- Showcase

We were so excited about the boat, it's just a prop, but oh so cool!


The reception was fun and we sold stuff! In fact, Mary and Gene thought it a great idea to serve all of the snacks on some of our ceramic platters. The funny thing was, someone wanted to buy one of my personal plates that had a crack in it. They just loved it so much and bought it with crumbs and a crack and all. It was one of my favorites too, I always assumed it would be mine, it was kind of sad to sell, but the couple just loved it.

Ceramics from Showcase

Earth Meets Water

This weekend is our big showcase we have been preparing for since March. Myself and 5 other ceramic artists have made new work in the theme of water. Most of my stuff will directly reference water, like frogs, and pirates and sea-monkeys and ant mermaids and sea-dragons. We even were able to find a boat for our display. I threw together these post cards for our mailers... I like the campy pirate ship one the best. I will be sure to post pictures of the show here next week. The reception is on Sunday the 5th.

Fine Art Reception

One of the rare occasions that I am not wearing a baseball cap and pigtails... I did it for the art.

Brag, brag, brag, brag!!!!!

Last night I found out that I won gold/1st place for the 3-D catagory at a local fine-art show. The juror was Robert Poplack, Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Notre Dame college in Belmont, Ca. He is also the curator of the Weigart Gallery.

Scroll down to see examples of the winning pieces. I entered a set of 5 each of my perfume bottles "Scents of the Sea" I have a total of 10 bottles, but I entered the following:
Clam
Barnacle
Urchin
Sea Snail
Tube Worm

How exciting!!!!!

Art in the Park

My both from (8/12) Art in the Park, at Historical Ardenwood.
No, I am not shy.

Bottle Project-Glazed

Bottles have been completed for some time, these are the 4 best bottles out of 10. The other 6 are on display at the JC in my town, I was awarded the President's award and best of class for ceramics at the last student show. These four will be entered in a local Fine Art Show in September and will also be part of a showcase that is about "Water on Earth" The series is called "Scents of the Sea" From the Top- Sea Clam, Anemone, Tube Worm and Sea Snail. I am marketing to all of those mermaids... These were fired to cone 10 in a highly reduced environment. The finish is a combination of red-iron-oxide and Celedon Glaze.

“Let’s Impeach the President”by Neil Young
Let’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war

Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door

He’s the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war

Let’s impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones

What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government’s protection
Or was someone just not home that day?

Let’s impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected

Thank god he’s racking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean

Thank God

The Kittens are growing

This is Peter (Silver), Dahlia(gold) and Prancer (Big Cat). Its been 10 weeks and all of the kits are getting along fine. Although Big Cat does appreciate when the babies get put away in their room for the night. Dahlia was supposed to go live with some very dear friends of ours, but I hate to admit it... I am a Kitten taker backer. How could you not fall in love with these cuties! We are the luckiest people in the world to get to take care of these very special guys and gal.

My Studio

This is my studio, If you look closely there is a baby kitten sleeping in the chair. I am working on some new ceramic pieces right now, using a really bitchin' wooden stamp for design and texture on the back of the pieces. I'll glaze/paint/glaze the surface with some of my fun bugs, turtles, sea-horses and of course kittens.

Bottle Project

Inspired by life in the sea. This is my experimenting with handbuilding and discovering different ways to create organic forms by using simple techniques/forms (and lots and lots of them) After completion of each bottle I put them in my kiln to dry before the bisque stage. I am very good at creating complex forms and then bumping or breaking them when they are bone dry. Very frustrating. So, I had the bright idea of storing them in the kiln while they dry. I had to make them in series by size that way I wouldn't have to fuss so much with the furniture and shelves. I did manage to snap off a piece of the coral on the clam bottle while putting in the furniture. damn. I am going to bisque fire the stoppers in the bottles, but am working on a plan for a chuck with high fire kiln wire so I can glaze them entirely with minimal damage. I will end up firing these in a reduction environment using oxides and celedon and rutile glazes.


The tips are getting crispy here. Each tenticle is approx 2" long.

bent whisker