🌙 Studio Notebook

Good morning, Bonna — day 3 in the new studio
file it as… ✨ just a note🧪 glaze🔥 firing✓ to-do🏺 piece

To-do

Wedge clay for mug run (B-Mix)
Mix test batch — Celadon variation #2
Unload bisque firing
Order silica — running low

In the studio

🏺 6 mugs — leather hard, trim today
🥣 2 serving bowls — drying, 2 more days
🥄 Walnut spoon blanks — roughed out
next firing: bisque, ~Sat

Kiln

Idle — last fired 3 days ago (bisque, ∆04)
Tony's controller plugs in here, Phase 5

Recent notes

“Celadon breaks beautifully over carved texture…”
“New wheel position feels right by the window”

Shopping list 🧺

Silica — 10 lb pantry says low
Business cards — reorder
Tissue paper + moon stickers
Trimming tool (the sharp little one)
one list for everything — materials, tools, packaging, paper goods

How things land here

✍️ Jot “order more wax resist” anywhere → chip it as to-do or say “shopping” → it files itself onto this list.

Sea-glass Celadon

∆6 ox · glossy · translucent
tested · loves B-Mix

Toasted Amber

∆6 ox · satin · breaks rust
2 tests · crawls on porcelain

Oat Matte

∆6 ox · matte · opaque
untested — from Glazy

Recipe — Sea-glass Celadon

Custer Feldspar38
Silica28
Whiting18
EPK Kaolin16
+ Copper Carbonate0.5
+ Bentonite2
📒 Notebook: thin = washes out; 3 dips or S.G. 1.45. Gorgeous pooling in carved lines. Works with: B-Mix ✓, Speckled Brownstone ✓, Porcelain — untested.
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Firing #4 — Glaze, ∆6 oxidation

Aug 2 · slow ramp, 15 min hold · 11 hrs
  • 6 mugs — B-Mix — Sea-glass Celadon
  • 2 bowls — Speckled Brownstone — Toasted Amber
  • 4 test tiles — Oat Matte variations
✨ Result: Celadon perfect on carved mugs. Amber ran on bowl #2 — thinner next time or catch plates. Oat tiles: #3 is the keeper.
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Firing #3 — Bisque, ∆04

Jul 29 · standard bisque · 9 hrs
  • Full load — mugs, bowls, tiles
All clean, no cracks. New kiln shelves level. 🎉
tag it… glazewoodnew studiocollection ideasshows+ new tag

Carving + celadon = the thing

The break over carved texture is exactly the look. Lean the whole first collection into carved surfaces. Chattering tool next?

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glazecollection ideas

Studio layout

Wheel by the window is right. Wedging table needs to move closer to clay storage — too many trips.

new studio

Spoon shapes

Walnut roughing went fast. Try a shorter, deeper bowl on the next blanks — more of a tasting spoon.

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Market idea — Fall Makers Fair

Deadline usually mid-September? Check fee. This becomes a real tracked thing in Phase 3.

shows
🌙 Phase 1 sketch · tell me what feels right and what doesn't