All the trimmings

Lots to tell you all, but I'm way too tired and it's way too late.

So here's the Cliff Notes version... on second thought, even the Cliff Notes version makes me tired, so I'll just show pretty pictures instead.

And no, it's nothing horrible (as in: DANGEROUS) but it is rather complicated (welcome to my medical life this year).

The title of this post is a pottery pun: "trimmings" refer to the shavings from the wet (okay, leather-hard) clay which has not yet been fired. Trimmings are generally removed from the foot area of each piece; they are "trimmed" (hence, the term).

And since it is Thanksgiving weekend, well, the pun amused me.

Examples of leather hard greenware (i.e., unfired) clay are shown below.

Once they are fired, but before they are glaze-fired, they are called bisqueware, examples of which I have shown previously.



The example below is a bowl that was well shaped, with interesting glaze patterns, but I found the color too dark for my taste. However, my sweetie found it pleasant enough that he took it home with him. Hooray!



As you can see, I have many, many (so much more than enough) pieces at home in any case, from the pieces I had left unglazed when I abruptly disappeared from the studio before surgery and treatment, etc.



This bowl is actually a combination of 2 glazes and warped slightly during glaze firing. You can't tell from this view, but if you look at it from above, it looks like an egg-shaped ellipse (is that redundant?) instead of a round circle. (Okay, I know that is redundant.)



Okay, since it's now INSANELY late, it's a good thing I am taking Monday off from work, so I can go visit my friend Margaret and her husband and baby out in Long Island. (They are back east visiting his family for a few days.) All I have to do in the morning is go meet the doctor first, for a consultation regarding some questions I have, and then not sleep past my stop on the Long Island Railroad.