Cover girl

Good news - they put my jug and bowl set on the Mother's Day advertising. Bad news - due to a very bad run of cracking bases, I only have four that survived. I'm going to try making more tomorrow but I'll be pushing it for Mother's day.

Exhibition update

I am now three weeks into the exhibition at JamFactory and am excited to say six out of my seven pieces have sold. They all sold within the first couple of days. Some to people I know others to complete strangers. I must say I feel a bit weird having people buy something I have made. A couple of people had already decided how they were going to use the piece they bought. One was going to make it her morning teacup. I am really pleased about this as I see these as functional works that should enhance everyday life. I will take some photos of the exhibition before it finishes.

Time management

I seem to be constantly time poor these days. When I went from part-time work/part-time ceramics to full-time ceramics I thought I would gain so much time. In reality, those extra days are spent working for the studio and I still only have 2.5 days to develop my own work. On top of that I have been asked to production throw some little tea bowls for the studio range. Each little bowl currently takes me about 8 minutes to make. I then need about the same amount of time to trim. At $1.50 per bowl I have worked out I earn about $5 an hour. The aim of course is to take less time per bowl which will in turn make me a better potter (and more money). The main production potter at JamFactory takes 1 minute to make the same bowl. I don't think I'll ever be that fast but I'll give it a try.

I'm back

Ok, so I'm a rubbish blogger. Life just overwhelmed me for a bit there and something had to go. Work has been full on, we have just decided to build a house and need to sign up before the gov't rebate ends in June, my Dad is less than well so blogging was not the 1st priority. I still have the same pressures but I've got my head around it now so hopefully I'll be more effective. We'll see...