Prudence's Pottery

Another year is coming to an end (the same opening as last year 😛) It has been quite a year and I needed to review my last year review prior starting this one. It was a tough year at work especially the second half of the year.  Things unfortunately didn't go the right direction and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't steer back to the right path.  At least I can say out loud that I'd done my very best.   Work affected me negatively for the most part of September and October, but with what I hear from the news (the natural disasters, the fights between countries), I find myself extremely lucky to have a great family, friends, a job and my hobbies.  I am thankful for this and have left those negative thoughts behind me (at least I tried).   I started the pottery season early this year as I had a great show in 2017, made something new (garlic keeper) in December/January and it's now in a good home. I also made my 10 bowls for Great Bowls of...

Merry Christmas! I guess my plan fell through...was quite busy the past couple of months and it's already Christmas. Since we were away in most of November and the show was the first week of December, I spent many weekends in October making pieces for the show.  And the kiln was busy as well, good that October was cool so that the house wasn't too too warm from the firing.   New mug style and colours for 2018 Between making new pieces and some golfing, I still managed to do most of firings before the trip, which made it a bit easier when I was back from vacation. Our trip was great, we visited Hawaii and Tahiti.  The weather was mostly good, the food was awesome.  It was really hard to come back to reality. I came back one week before the show with most evenings were spent on the final touch for the show (including one glaze firing).  I was still pricing at midnight the night before the show, guess I was re...