Empty Bowls Houston

Empty Bowls Houston was Saturday. It went well. Runaway Sun was great and the weather was beautiful. I dont know the total money raised for the food bank yet.. but we did not sell out of bowls. There are still bowls for sale on a table at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Later, there will be a bowls yard sale. tba.

my friend in ceramics gets bored

in english class and draws on her hand.

a beautiful fire box

firing and bowl-ing

its taken about nine months for this post to gestate. now it delivers. after ragbrai in july and hurricane ike and all that in september it took two months for me to begin to care about anything. now i'm working on getting volunteers for empty bowls houston on march 21st. it benefits the hungry and i care about this.

i still feel detached. and different. ragbrai changed me. that's for sure. besides the fact that lubrication makes everything better i learned that i still have it. something. strength. some power i associate with youth. and i didnt know i still had it until i rode across iowa. so thats good. but it doesnt change the fact that my marriage is horribly broken. and unfixable. and that's really depressing.

anyways, i'm making bowls for EB and i'm making stuff for the next woodfire. when ever that is.

my first solo show was this spring in february at lonestar college montgomery.

i just helped fire and unload rob's wood kiln at jenny's place in weimar tx feb2009. photos of that woodfire are at flickr. squid_lady is my flickr name. also on flickr you will see photos of jake's woodfire in edom during the fall2008. i'm feeling fortunate to get an invite to these firings. these guys are both wonderful people, if you ever get a chance to meet either robby or jake, you will find that they are lovely, terrific people and they know their woodfire stuff too.

i'm learning all i can from them.

speaking of learning. i went to a bodacious kickin workshop in january 2009 in dripping springs at bridget hauser's pottery. called texas clay continuum, i came back from that so jazzed! how fun. my friend went too. on the second to last day, she bought 3 different bottles of good rum trinidad, nicaraguan and another rum. she tried to get a 300 pound man drunk then tried to arm-wrestle him for his hat. but he out foxed her and gave other people almost all the drinks she gave him... because he said rum makes him stupid. this guy is quite the trickster, my friend got very drunk. i drove her home.

i'm taking ceramics two right now and we have a glaze project. line blends. i am doing 13 matte glazes and 4 different glossy rutile glazes to layer over the mattes.
lots of tests. guess i need to post photos of that. got two fine rutile glazes so i'm stoked!

note to self - try them in wood, soda or salt.

i'm planning to go to phoenix for nceca - but my friend the rum-lady backed out so i guess i'm going solo. i'm sure somebody i know is going. anyone?

new words for my blog. after RAGBRAI 2008

well I finished RAGBRAI 2008. i didn't know i could do it. i did stuff like this at 16 and 24 but that has been a while. so it is time to post some new words to my blog.

marcus is making us add stuff to the thundering texans's wiki.
our bike group is the thundering texans. i dont know why it is called the thundering texans.

i ate pie - apple, cherry, peach, (a peach and a cherry kolache), cherry and chocolate cream and apple pie on the 470 mile ride across iowa.

some words to describe what RAGBRAI is like would be good here. if i could think of some. riding a bike across iowa with 10,000 or more (i swear there were more than 10 thousand) other people is a crowded 500 mile church bake sale with a little bit of parade or carnival atmosphere tossed in.

Fall is here. I think

it must be fall it is a bit cooler at night. the grass is going brown. school started again.

i'm excited to see 2 of my ceramic pieces online on the hanson gallery website for
Out of the Earth ClayHouston member's show along with all the other beautiful ceramics. And I am excited to see Lavonna Butters amazing gorgeous crystalline glaze pieces.

Welcome to Atlanta!!July 4th 2007

I'll tell you more later but for this post. Atlanta was not a fun place to be on the 4th of July.
The Police released Tear Gas or Pepper spray to break up a fight in Centennial Park. and then someone shot a gun and fearful crowd of people started running from the park before the fireworks started. Welcome to Atlanta!

The Cactus are blooming in Weimer, Texas.