Happy bird-day! Woooooo!

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What if there is a spoon?

Thank you

Due to extraordinary disorganisation, me having to go to work rather than taking the day off, and my husband being a bit tired on the day, I didn't get any presents actually on my birthday.

But I'm not upset. Today I am waiting in for a delivery, the approximate weight of which should be 80kg. It will contain a pottery kiln, clay, and some other things like simple glazes.

That's my main birthday present, which I didn't ask for but which my husband thought of spontaneously. Hence I'm not miffed at him for yesterday.

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

All I have to do is make room for it

Easier said than done. The first plan was to put it in the summer house, but that's got a wooden decking floor which just isn't strong enough for nearly 50kg + clay of kiln. And the summer house is made of wood, which worries me since the kiln's innards will be getting up to over 1200 centigrade and I would be afraid of the whole place spontaneously combusting.

However, now we know how heavy the thing really is, it's going to go on a nice solid concrete floor in the shed. The only problem is that many, many other things are taking up that space at the moment.

So, lots of moving stuff around for me.

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

Belated Happy Birthday Meridian. Hope you have a great time with your presents.

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ThornGenX
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

A quote from the movie "Wall Street" 1987

Ah... pottery wheel. If I get really lucky I might get one for Christmas

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

For some reason I thought I read pottery wheel, oops.
But the kiln is still cool.
What kind of pottery do you do?

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Stardust

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. - Agnes Repplier

Ah, if only I was sexy....


I've not been making pots long. But since I don't have a wheel yet, I'll be doing slabwork and coiling. And some experimentation with glaze.

My husband has commissioned me to make mugs for his team at work - he'll have to make do with slabwork ones until I have a wheel, since I don't want to do casting.

I want to look into making boxes and slabwork/bas relief vases. While I have the kiln, I don't have all the things I need to work the clay yet. Nor the time.

But my husband's sly motive for buying me this expensive kiln is that he believes I will be able to sell my pots when I do eventually get kicked out of my job. I'll definitely have more time then to make them.

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

My husband does pottery. I learned how in undergrad school and I was a disaster on the wheel. I did a couple of slab pieces, which was fun.
However I decided to leave the 3D work to the husband an I will stick to my 2D work.

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Stardust

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. - Agnes Repplier

Happy (Belated) B-Day, Oh Devilish One!