Website!

Hello All
This blog has moved. My good friend Nate Laffan, of http://www.laffandesign.com/, has made me a website! http://carlamchattie.com includes a "Journal" section where my blog can now be found. Please take a moment to check it out.
Meanwhile check out this photo of me (just barely) lining up to race with Olympian Kara Goucher, and her bad ass teammates.

Hey a Show!

Hey. Since I doubt anyone is willing to make a the trip out to Gresham, Oregon to see this show, I am just gonna post the pots I have to see there. One of them you may have already seen in my "Garden Photo shoot" from my last post. It really looks better in the garden... I think it likes sunlight as much as I do.
I think the other ones have been posted at one point or another, but these four are some of my favorite things. Enjoy.
They are all for sale. If you would like ot go out and see the show it is at Mt. Hood Community College, in the Visual Arts Gallery. There is a lot of beautiful work there. The ceramics, print making departments work is very strong.

In LOVE!

With a bowl that is. This is my favorite thing that I have made to date! I really think so, and want to declare it before I open up the cooling wood kiln on this weekend. What a beauty. Notice the side where the soda hit the pot and made the glaze translucent. The creamy white on the outside, that is blushed from copper. Possibly from the inside, possibly from the atmosphere. The garnet inside with a slight purple accent. The lip that holds a wealth of crystals, and is at the perfect angle for a spoon or your lips. This bowl also has a pleasant weight to it, where durability and ease are balanced. Lately I have been trying to throw with a lot of intention and confidence, recorded in throwing marks that suggest movement in the object, and reference the process by which it was made. I think this bowl is a really successful example of that.
I hope you like this one as much as I do :-)

Too excited!

Since I can't wait to show off my new pots that are hot out of the Soda kiln, I decided to take some snapshots of them in my garden. Quick and dirty.