Recharged

Yesterday marked the end of a week long vacation in Canmore, Alberta to visit my brother. It was MUCH needed. It was nice to get away and get out of the studio for a while. A change of scenery has been very refreshing. I was able to mull over some of those beautiful tests from last month and have decided on a direction to take them. I am looking forward to working out these new ideas in the coming weeks.

My Creative Journey

Well, here we go.

With my Christmas Craft shows all done and out of the way (hooray!), I finally have some time (in between orders of course) to work on some new designs.!

Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE what I do, but it can be a little frustrating trying to juggle doing what you need to do and doing what you want to do. I have been itching to try some new ideas for a while now and never seem to be able to fit anything in to my schedule. These last few shows were exciting and certainly taught me a lot, including how important it is to keep evolving your work. Change is the nature of the universe and my work needs to be able to change and develop as I do. So from this point on, I am going to put forward my best effort to make room for creative play.

I recently got some exciting tests out of the kiln that have my head spinning. (I'll post some pics soon, I promise) A very interesting and glittery (yes, glittery) matte white glaze that interacts with a copper-saturated underglaze that I am trying out. From this one little test, my ideas are going in all directions. Over the next little while I hope to pinpoint more of a dircetion to go in and begin to work out some new designs.