Uluala

There’s something about bisque fired pieces… The way they look equally simple, just forms forming landscapes.

Moments before glazing are always so enjoyable. When all the prep work before the glazing, sanding and washing, are long forgotten and all the pieces are waiting quietly. Beauty of simple forms, just before all the glaze madness begins 😀

Addition to high serving platter series. This time in gray stoneware with silky gray glaze. If you scroll through the images you can go back in time how it was made.

Thrown on the wheel, then altered into irregular shape. Put together from two pieces, leg and platter, and then the texture was carved.

When different pieces are combined together the drying process is longer, so it waited almost 3 weeks to go to its first firing. Now ready for serve more than emotions 🩶

Time off. My boss told me I should take the weekend off. In this entrepreneurial business I intend to forget how weekends should be spent. So when I finish today I will listen my boss, that is me, and stay off the studio till Monday. So I leave all my tools and vases alone as they do just fine without me too.

Tomorrow my grandma turns 102 years old, so I’ll go and hug her and we can catch up. We talk over the phone from time to time, but as she lives quite far from us, we don’t see her that often as I would like to.

Then maybe a little motorcycle trip too on Sunday. Have not ridden my new bike yet, so this is exciting.

How about you? Do you often forget to rest and take time for yourself?

Have a chill weekend my friends 🔥☀️