Northern Woods Studio

 I found a tutorial a while back on making frog jars! I made them two ways. The first way is to throw the base and put a rim inside the top of the jar, then handbuild a lid so that the lid sits inside the top of the jar. The first jar was made that way. The second way is to make a jar on the wheel and then throw the lid the way I throw lids for urns, so that it sits on top. This is the second video. Which do you like? I am making more and they should be ready in about a week! 

 Hand built, carved and glazed in gorgeous glazes, I have some new butter dishes available in my etsy shop here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1485632153/ceramic-covered-butter-dish-handcrafted?click_key=224b9c854a2ded612707fb1848a70f5647600ffa%3A1485632153&click_sum=18fe0902&ref=shop_home_active_2&frs=1

I love sea turtles, as most of us do. I recently started making sea turtle mugs, and also some ornaments. I have one of these in my shop, or I can custom make one for you!

This is an awesome glaze I use - it starts with deep firebrick, and two other glazes on top! 

For those interested, here is my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/northern_woods_studio/ I have some new glaze combos and I'm narrowing my focus down to just a few. Here are some new ones: Here are some of the ones I have chosen as my main palettes: 

I am loving the Potters Choice glazes by Amaco! They layer beautifully, and flow like cone 10 reduction glazes. Here are some of the new combos I tried on white Laguna clay, cone 5, no hold.

I did serious rescue from 2007 to 2010, bringing up from the south and rehoming about 3000 dogs and puppies. My last summer of serious rescue, I took three dogs from a local vet who was the clearing house for dogs in this area. If I didn't take them, they were going to die. I put them in the kennel we were renting. Since they came from the northeast, I assumed they had their vaccinations. One of them got very ill, with tremors and seizures, and then the other two.  My vet told me he thought it was distemper, as they had a case in the office the other day. Distemper??? I had dealt with parvo hundreds of times, but never distemper.  My vet said he hadn't vaccinated the three dogs I brought in. I was stunned. I knew all the adult dogs at the kennel would be fine, as they had all had their vaccines, even the rescue dogs, but I had 9 unvaccinated puppies. One by one, they got ill, and either died or I had to have them euthanized. The one who loved me the most, BamBam, hung on for w...

Handbuilding some magnets, spoons, spoon rests, and small plates, much more!!

Here are some of my glaze choices:

I took a workshop with Barbara from Monroe Clayworks today - she taught me about colored porcelain. I learned to inlay it, and to throw with it. This is an untrimmed, unfired piece of clay. It forces even brighter! 

Some custom orders getting made - clay is a 65, white body, mid-fire