Prudence's Pottery

I can't believe the last time I posted here was in 2020. Just like those COVID years when everyone was distant from the world, I was hiding from my Blogspot too. Although I haven't been updating my blog (for various reasons), I’ve still been making pottery, albeit less frequently. Over the past couple of years, I participated in two Christmas shows, though I missed last year’s because I was out of the country. I finally did the first firing of some pieces I made early last year and have already glazed a few of them. Since we're in the midst of the winter months in Canada, I spent a lot of time over the weekend in my studio, making more pieces and experimenting with new things.  More pictures to come... I also created my first time-lapse video of me making a plate the other day. Enjoy, and until next time...

On the last day in 2020, I am sitting in front of my computer and looking back on what a year this has been..... Year 2020 started out ok, we started to hear the new word COVID, but it seemed to be very far from us.  We still went for our "annual" golf trip down South at the end of February.  Then after my birthday (early March), we went into the first lockdown after discovering the first COVID case in Ottawa.  We started to work from home on March 16 (thought we would be back in the office during the summer months, however we are still working from home).  At this time, many people rushed to the grocery stores for toilet paper, flour and other essential supplies.  Didn't know it's so important to have sufficient toilet paper at home. Things got a bit better toward the month of May where golf courses and restaurants were allowed to open.  Thanks to mother nature, we were able to put in a record high of 50 rounds of golf this year and the last round was on N...

Welcome to the first day of 2020!  Can't believe that this is my first post since last January?!  What'd happened to 2019? Yes, just like the title says, 2019 really wasn't a good pottery year.  It started out strong in January and then it'd gone downhill.  :( Last January, I kept in touch with the lady who interested in some plates and bowls.  I started making those plates back then, however, she'd written back to have those on hold.  It was perfectly fine for me as I was only seeking for new ideas.  I managed to make 7 plates and was quite pleased with them. Unfortunately work got really busy in the first half of the year.  I did a lot of overtime and really didn't have time to make any new pieces. Then the Summer came, many weekends were spent on the golf courses.  Again pottery didn't make it to the priority list. So, did I make anything else?  Yes I did.  The motivation came from signing up for my annual ...

For the first month of 2019, it was started out very productive.  I spent one Saturday and did up 6 plates that are mostly the same look and same size.  However, after they dried up a little, I decided to only keep 3 of them.   Unfortunately those were the only things I made in January.  Now on to February.  

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...

Another month had gone by.  September was again a busy month.  The weather was great until September 21st when a couple of tornadoes swept through Ottawa and Gatineau.  It was my first time hearing about tornadoes touched down in Ottawa.  The tornadoes were so strong that they flew away many power lines and power plant caused a major power outage.  We were so lucky that power was out only for less than 24 hours but many people were out of power for days.    A combination of great weather (a lot more golfing) and the power outage, not much time was spent on pottery making.  However, I did do something pottery related (which might be a mistake or a motivation).  I signed up for the Christmas sale in December.  But the problem is that I will be away for 3 weeks in November!  This means in October (today is already October 6) I will have to spend much more time on pottery and prepping for the sale (the motivation 😅). Well, I star...