Seasonal work has the pressure of deadlines.
The studio is covered in objects all at some stage of glaze application.
(Glazing has begun. Feet and lid galleries are waxed. Notes on what and how are being written.)
Those five honey jar sets I've mentioned lately are needed just before Christmas.
Glazed chanukiot (that's Chanukah menorahs in contemporary Hebrew) are at long last ready to go into the kiln. Chanukah begins the evening of December 16th this year. (Although it is true, if they're not ready for Chanukah, they still make wonderful wedding gifts.)
The big mugs will have complicated glaze designs on them, but today these are still partly covered with black underglaze, partly by latex resist, and still waiting for more glaze application. The completed pieces will be revealed, after glaze firing, (drum roll!) on my pottery page on Facebook, (yes, that is a safe and clickable link...) and in this blog by Sunday afternoon, November 30th. Check back!