Things have been very quiet lately on this blog haven't they? The end of summer has felt very busy around here. I'm also getting ready for my mother-in-law's visit later this week. The piles of laundry are ridiculous. really, they are. But we're working on it. 
I got my first batch of buttons and pendants back from my work with the workshop program at the community college. There is definitely a learning curve involved--finding new clay, new glazes, new kiln...So this batch turned out a little differently from my past work. I'm still pleased with some of it, but I did have to put a disappointingly large pile of things (almost all my owl buttons. boo!) in the "seconds bowl". I'm not sure what I'll do with them. For now they are serving as currency for Mary and Emma's 'grocery store'.
The clay this time was a little bit redder and lighter so everything has a different feel, at least to me.
This was the first time I worked with some imprints on my buttons and pendants. This set has a blue green wash of color over the print. They look extrememly shiny in this picture. Some of that is the sun, but they are a little glassy.
And a few pendants came out nicely, too. They remind me of robin's eggs--the blue color flecked with specks of brown. 
These and others will be up in my etsy shop sometime this week. As always, if you are on my mailing list, you'll get the heads up first.
Off to change that laundry.....we're making progress, we're making progress.....
