I Call It Home & Close to Home

The big storm at Ivars Restaurant in Mukilteo.

Apple Platter

Next series????

Forget me not!

Series of ware, I call Forget me nots. This is the third set , making 3 in a week, Almost complete. I did a glaze fire, it was ok, experimental. A few successes. I am waiting for drying to fire these three, and I am also hoping colors don't burn out too bad, I may have to redo the pink series of fushias. ~smile~

Self Portrait 2

For Maria in Brazil!

Fun Art by Maria! Kim's flowers in macro, 2 slideshows!

Go here for fun art!

colorful flower slideshow photo's by Kim

Art is my favorite past time....this is where I live

The Dungeness River Trail is one of my favorite places (on the peninsula)

friends chit chat in Marysville...home by the Bay...

Sunset from my house in Mukilteo.....

Rialto Beach where I camp a lot...but need to go this year ...

Tulips from Laconner where the tulips fest is every spring....

Porcelain Bowls ..soon to be fired!

Finally fired and with "georgous hair" in this, "self portrait"
I have been wiped out today, but I decorated the rest of the bowls I had thrown. No sleep for the wicked I guess, I am exhausted. Of course, when I work, I never stop. Without a bell or someone to tell me Lunch or break, I don't! As a result I have these all or nothing days. I really need to learn to stop to eat, etc. Like a kid not wanting to stop playing, I guess, that is how I tackle work.






Duh! Maybe I need a bell?
Any suggestions? Debbie you work at home, any suggestions?
BTW, your e-mail keeps coming back, all e-mail! I have sent 5!

I have some work that is experimental that needs to be fired, Much of it was over fired in the supposed bisque fire, but I forgot to enter the temp in my new kiln ( it is supposed to be automatic!) Do I sound like a blonde? So it was overfired, to what I am not sure, quick bisque I think,. Sounds like soup, it almost was!

BTW, I got this The Blonde Year in Review from my cousin, ( below) I think I will just post it, it is very funny! Maybe blondes are just tired! ( Like me!)

Soo, after I fire this glaze fire, I need to fire this bisque of these items here, and then I will know if I can dip these pieces or if I have to make a spray booth to handle the job best.

My spray booth is a cardboard box that I paint with wax inside to line it, I get a filter from the hardware store, and cut a hole in the back for a fan to pull the air ( hopefully residual glaze) through.

It works ok, not great, but a spray booth is very pricey! I need a slab roller first, and a few other items, not to mention a ton of porcelain to work with. ( Literally)

I hope to design tiles again oneday for corporate installations. I had begun this endeaver before my divorce, but after the divorce, there was no way I could raise Daisy and explore that possibility. I tried. My tiles from before are in relief, very small, and smoke fired. They have a very primitive look, and are nice to touch.

Monarch Tile Company has the only work I produced in a very large size ( and it is rather small) in their corporate collection. I know the tiles are worth the effort, I just need to build up steam and eventually get back to it and find my way into collections and buildings. Any suggestions are welcome if anyone in the know might be reading this by some synchronistic miracle!

For now I will just be content with my porcelain bowls, and wherever that takes me, we really should not take life for granted, we never know when it will end for us! Do we?


The Blonde Year in Review

January - Took her new scarf back to the store because it was too tight.

February - Couldn't work in a pharmacy because the bottles wouldn't fit
into the typewriter.

March - Got excited when she finished a jigsaw puzzle in 6 months
because the box said "2-4 years."

April - Was trapped on an escalator for hours when the power went out.

May - Couldn't make Kool-Aid because 8 cups of water won't fit into
those little packets.

June - Couldn't learn to water ski because she couldn't find a lake with
a slope.

July - After losing in a breaststroke swimming competition, complained
to the judges that the other swimmers were using their arms.

August - Told her blonde friend to hurry when trying to get into their
locked car using a coat hanger because it was starting to rain and the
top was down

September - When asked what the capital of California was: answered "C."

October - Decided she hates M &M's because they are so hard to peel and
there were too many W's in the bag.

November - Baked Thanksgiving turkey for 4 days because the instructions
said 1 hour per pound and she weighed 120.

December - House burned down. Couldn't call 911 because there was no
"11" on any phone button.

Promised Work!

Fushia Bowls


































Kim has been after me to do more work, and I finaly got a sink installed outside my studio, so now I really can do my work! here are photos of the studio and some work in progress.
I will fire it and glaze it and recapture it then , wish me luck!

Cool Refrigerators

Cool Refrigerators, and colors, WOW! Check it out!

Cool ranges, I want the aristocrat! And what color frig? Hmm?

So many colors, so little money!
I will decide when I get my lottery winnings! And then I will need a ...cook! Dianne Carney, this stove is for you!

1952 O'Keefe & Merritt
"Aristocrat" - Model 5850-R
with all new interior and exterior porcelain enamel!

Two 16" Low-Temperature Ovens
Two Broilers (one Grillevator)
Kool Kontrol - Keeps Knobs Cool
Six Center-Simmer Top-Burners

Removable Center Griddle

Fluorescent Lamp Under Shelf
Handy Shelf for Working-space
Electric Timer - Cooking Aid
Clock Control Appliance Outlet
Automatic Oven Clock- Control

Warming Oven Keeps Dishes Hot

Tel-U-Vision Glass Oven-Doors

Two Drawers for Extra Storage
Oven Illumination - both ovens
Thermostat Oven Heat Control
Automatic Lighting throughout



Looking for ranges for the kitchen inspired me to search for ,"cool ranges, or stoves." This is a site I found and I am in love with this," art work." This one is a one and only left, I guess. There were 700 produced.

I hope someone gets clue, and begins to make new ranges this spectacular. Must have been lots of baking in these days! ( All the ovens in one appliance) .This one has a triple rotisserie as well!







my search for cool ranges yielded thisamazing site!

A berryin I must go....

I stopped (after seeing my MD and finding I have sever obstructive sleep apnea), at the blue berry patch.

When I arrived, voices of children squealing and playing was the excitement I found filling the air. Women picked and so did kids, and it was a perfect morning to be out in a place like that, It made me feel connected in a most beautiful way.

I began picking big round berries on bushes that were just loaded, and after while I noticed a woman picking near me, also alone. We began talking, and we talked about everything; politics, kids, berries, menopause, food, health remedies , history, education, all of it, and we became friends, Her name is Millie, and she had her tatting with her, Wow, I was so impressed! Beautiful work.

Anyway, I was so delighted, I have 2 new wonderful women friends, one is online, and one lives north of me, I hope to see her again, she was delightful.I stayed at the hospital last night for my sleep apnea, and I had a terrible night, it wasn't very promising. I had a bad headache.

That was my yesterday...Lovey signing out...

Imagine Rest!

Sleeplessness makes you feel bad!!

Happy 90th Birthday Ella!

My flowers for Ella, and vase I made, too.











Yesterday was Ella's birthday. She was 90 years old. She was radiantly beautiful. I love Ella, and I loved her sister, my dear friend Doris who left us March a year ago. I will always miss Doris' smiling face and her warm greeting, always so happy to see me. She and Ella talked everynight, it was so endearing, two sisters so connected. Doris' husband, my friend, Don passed 3 years her when I lived across the street from them. I visited everyday. They brought joy to my life, they think I bought it to them, but it was the other way round. They made me feel like I had a family, inviting Daisy and I for Easter, and Thanksgiving, and sharing all aspects of their lives with us.
I miss them still!

Ella's brother died in January, so she is like me now, the only one left of her family of origin. It has been hard on her, I can see the strain. But she is still strong, and so sharp. Just like Dorie was. Ella is a tiny woman with a great spirit!

I went skating 4 miles at Greenlake yesterday afternoon after Ella's party. I had planned it and felt I needed to just do it, even though i was invited to go to Dotties for a barbeque, I had already committed myself to going.

I went to see Kim afterwards, she is a best friend who lives in Edmonds, and she and I went to college together, in Texas. It was no plan we ended up out here together, but she and her Mom, Dianne are also like family to me. Yet, I still feel, for some reason like I am on the outside looking in to lives that are contained, joined and that I am alone. I don't know what my purpose is. It used to be my kids, I guess, then Daisy, came along, and she was my purpose, and now... I feel lost. Is that inevitable? I wonder! I guess there have been a lot of losses, more than is natural for me, and maybe I am just sad missing everyone.

I have a new friend from Daily Om. Her name is Debbie. She is a Godsend. Warm, compassionate, really so loving and understanding, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate connecting with her. She is a woman with a lot of wisdom.
Well, today I will go to my studio, make more pots, and look for jobs, and maybe skate or walk a bit.I am thiking about Jim Croce's song now, (Time in a bottle) "There is never enough to do the things you wantto do once you find them." I guess I have not yet found them, but at times in my life I have and there have been times when my life was full, I guess this is just one of those times to learn other lessons! I must be a slow learner!

Indigo children, healers of a new generation

Indigo children sites
metagifted children
Maybe you have an indigo child, likely? Look at some of the, "symptoms".

Dream Healer

I have ordered Adam's books, and I am signing up for the first workshop I can get into.
Very interesting, and hopeful. A new day is rising!Dream healer
Society will change, just as the 100th monkey story describes.

popgadgets

Found this very funny invention on popgadget's blog.

You have to go here! This blog is very entertaining! A man shaped ironing board...accessories for for lonely men ( a machine that will steal his sheets at night..haha! "Shared Cigarette is intended to be used after a solitary sex act: it has two holes, one for cigarette, and the other for exhaling smoke."
A toaster that makes egg mcmuffins! Need a laugh? Go here to popgadget. linked above for important info on:

The Museum of Food Anomalies (Submitted by Tom Leaf)


This is a carrot from Tom's garden. He says it looks like a horse, his friends say it looks like a pig, I say it looks like a hippo. Could this be the mythical "Rorschach Carrot?"