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Live dangerously. 

Eat off hand made plates!

There is a different feel to eating when you use

hand made table ware.

I know I am biased but it is true.

This is my new glaze design which has me very excited.

I feel like I am making a political statement.

Took ages to work out how to recreate the accident,

then...would it work in white?

The answer is yes!

I could not resist glazing a green version.

The depth of green depends on how long, how thick.

Controlled random with fingers crossed!

These plates are perfect brunch plates,

or

for the person who 

wants to reduce their evening meal portions

These plates are not radioactive!

,

If it was a no nuclear statement

there would have to be a line through it.

This would muck up the symetry.......

so it is not happening.

I could not help myself and tried for the leopard print again.

Worked very well

Will there be a sense of eating off a furry surface?

I seriously hope not.

   

Twilight Farmers market

The last two twilight markets have been

cancelled due to excessive heat.

Heat policy automatically cancels the market

if the temperature is forecast for 38 degrees or above.

It has been so hot we were starting early

and finishing early.

But...the cool change came in time and finally

a twilight market, which is great for all those

who work on Saturday morning, or

have sporting commitments that keep them

away from the market.

I have been making a lot of tableware lately.

Spurred on  by the consumers who keep buying it.

Very encouraging.

Amazing I had any flowers  at all

given the extreme heat we have been having

Handless mugs and plates

are my most regular sellers

 I wonder what this lady was buying?

Thanks Amy for helping me out on the stall.

Flowers in a heat wave.

These Lilliums got burnt while they were in bud

during the first heat wave.

Crispy edges saved them from going to market.

First sun flower for the season.

I am a fan!

Lions tail is a South African shrub

It is not fazed  by the heat,

the flowers last well in the vase too.

The corn flowers got 

too big for themselves and flopped over filling the

center of this circle...snap dragons

having a second flush.

There is some basil in this circle also.

Mum gave me some special sunflower seeds,

they are surrounding this garden

....nearly ready to harvest

 The Ixias are long finished and not too

many Lilliums left in this bed.

 The feral rabbits destroyed about 80 bulbs...

With the forest so close, this is my 

Farmer Brown section!

As you can see, the garden

 comes right up to the edge of the forest we planted in

1992 

I was trying to capture the paddock sprinklers

It is pretty dry out there...

amazing to have any grass left after this heat wave.

Day 4 of this latest heat wave.

I will be staying inside with the cooler on.

4 days over 40 degrees is a marathon...

a cool change is expected this evening

Leopard print glaze

A student experimented with

Tenmoku and Satin white.

Her results were 

gold spots on a black brown background.

I mentioned this to Caroline 

who decided to recreate the combination.

I got very excited when I opened the kiln today,

Leopard skin glaze!

I am going to try this too.

Thanks Amy Duke for the inspiration,

Thanks Caroline for your curiosity.

The second experiment was a success but

did not propel me to try. 

Tenmoku, Hyacinth blue and Satin white.  

It did run a bit even though 

I scraped off some before I loaded the kiln.

Perhaps it is my preference for warm colours.

Well done Caroline!

You have two beautiful bowls to collect.

Christmas is coming

I want to rotate the photo

 but havent worked out how to do that

 on the new device.

The new new device because I dropped the first one!

It did not respond well to the concrete floor.

These stars are fantastic if i may say so.

A special little punch. Fiddly to clean up.

There will be three sizes at the market on Saturday

These are the baubles

Some with a message and some plain

Mostly red and green

But some blue, aqua.....

Come to the market and have a look.

Jaycee Park 

I have shown these sheep beforer but

I am toying with the idea of a chess set

with the pawns being sheep.

I am wondering what the other pieces would be.

If it is Australiana...I think the emu and kangaroo 

would have to have a place, but if it was farm yard....then

The king could be a Bull....

would the queen then have to be a cow?

Of course the horse could be a horse...

A bishop?....a pig?

Oh it is all getting a bit hard....

The castle would be a Barn...or a dunny? 

Perhaps just make some more shèep and keep thinking about it.

I am no of fan of succulents however

They do occasionally give me reason to rethink this.

Given our climate I should be right into them.

Sunset on a warm spring night.

Flowering for just one day, 

these are simply stunning.

I think the sprinkle of rain the other day

really helped these along.

They are quite lotus like...without the water.

Mum left MS her  cacti and succulents when she left.

Good thing they practically look after themselves.

There is no automatic watering system in this front yard.

Florists pottery

Pre market Friday and the pottery room is transformed

into a florists.

I pick many buckets of flowers during the week,

and store in the cool room.

Then I get them all out and start to make my bunches.

I get to look at all the colours and consider what will work. 

I love parsley flowers and choose to add the in mix

They have a fresh green look with delicate fireworks feel to them

Featured here with yellow correopsis and asparagus fern.

Real asparagus fern that would be edible asparagus if I kept 

it trimmed to ground level.

Just like the weeds, it gets away from me.

The blue larkspur has started to self seed in the flower garden.

I will encourage this.

Foxgloves are a new thing I am growing. 

Unsure if they will cope with our climate.

Alstromerias do very well at this time of year.

Shame that yellow is not a popular flower colour.

Here is a new alstromeria that I could not resist 

at the nursery this week.

It is called Indian summer.

Prefers part shade which is good as I have a spot like that.

Ready and waiting.

The  view from the pottery door

Not the vibrant colour of early spring...

I will have to find something for summer.