Everyday stonewear, made in USA?

[Tuckervill]

Back on topic...my son and I took a pottery class last year, and we made lots of soup-sized bowls. Then my friend made lots of bowls and gave me her rejects (because I liked them anyway). Then I started eating on smaller plates and started collecting individual salad plates to make the experience more enticing. I like my eclectic collection and I'll probably start collecting dinner plates, too.

....must not order from Good Earth until after cruise...

Karen

[Brandi]

I'm on the verge of ordering $175 of Fiestaware. (8 place settings, and while $50 more expensive than I initially intended, not far off.)

One of the cool things I'm liking is that I can mix and match colors and get a gazillion other pieces (like chili bows and chowder bowls and serving bowls and salt-n-pepper shakers...)

I have fiesta wear and it is,or seems, unbreakable! I have dropped plates and had them stay together. Not a chip! I love fiesta wear. Ebay is a good place to get stuff too that is fiesta wear.

[Trek420]

Ooooooh so you're why the power was out throughout the East Coast Dead stick landing? I don't know what that means but sounds like no controls?

[Tuckervill]

It was a very small antique plane, and my friend the pilot took me up for my birthday. He grew up in Evening Shade, and we were "buzzing" his childhood home where his brother lived--apparently he'd forgotten about the location of the power lines, and I didn't see them, because I was looking at the ground. Because we hit the power lines, the fuel gauge, located on the nose of the plane broke off, and fuel was pouring in the broken windshield of the cockpit. We climbed and circled for a landing, but then had to cut the engine in case of fire. Thus, "dead-stick", and there were cows, too. Top it all off, the pilot is a paraplegic and I had to get him out of the plane quickly in case of fire, and his wheelchair was back at the airport in Little Rock.

There was no fire, very little damage to the plane, except the broken windshield, and where the live power lines sliced through the prop like it was a stick of butter.

The story is much longer than that, and I'm saving it for my memoirs!

Karen

[Trek420]

very little damage to the plane, except the broken windshield, and where the live power lines sliced through the prop like it was a stick of butter.

The story is much longer than that, and I'm saving it for my memoirs!

Karen

Uhm, therefore the live power lines could just as easily have sliced through you like a stick of butter

We're very lucky to have you here. To heck with the memoir, I'm waiting for the movie.

[sundial]

Maybe I should have said "crash-landed". I wasn't injured. I'm probably one of the very few people who can say she flew through power lines and lived to tell about it. Temps hovering around 5 degrees make for very fragile power lines...broken windshields make for very scary fuel pouring in the cabin...snow covered cow pastures make for very bumpy dead-stick landings...

And it was my 25th birthday.

Karen

So......that was your 25th birthday. What did you do for the big 4-0??

[smilingcat]

I will post a picture of crystalline glaze... hopefully tomorrow. have to take pictures first. I haven't forgotten.

Smilingcat

[Tuckervill]

So......that was your 25th birthday. What did you do for the big 4-0??

I flew to the Corpus Christi and spent a whole 7 days near the beach by myself. Since I was born in January, I was really, really alone! First time I'd been alone for that long since in my entire life. It was heavenly.

I'll be 46 in 8 days.

Karen

[mimitabby]

wow, Tuckerville, you have very interesting birthdays!

[Tuckervill]

I'm postponing this next one for a few days until the 25th when I get on a ship with the Barenaked Ladies!!! Can-NOT WAIT! I'm going to turn 46 with the Barenaked Ladies!!! YIPEEE!!!!

Karen

[smilingcat]

example of crystalline glaze. The difference in color and "looks" is because the glaze crystallized as it was cooling down. and what you see is the random crystal growth. I bought this. Not interested in working with this type of glaze as it tends to drip off the piece. You also have to grind off the dripped glaze. You can not use this type of glaze on food serving dish and especially for any acidic drinks as it will leach zinc and other heavy metal.

[smilingcat]

an example of glossy "wet look" glaze. This cup is about 4 inches tall and I was experimenting with Mason stains. Clay body is porcelain. Saturn orange was spray painted then flowers painted with brush. The black was too thick and too strong. Oh well. The clear glossy glaze on this piece is very stable and safe for food and drink.

[smilingcat]

another high fired piece of pottery. Stoneware. mix of different left over glaze and oversprayed with teadust black glaze to give it that "wood" look. sort of. about 10 inches in diameter. The dark bat like area on top of the lid is just a shadow.

[KnottedYet]

That first one, that isn't something you painted? It's the crystal making that look painted? It's beautiful!

I like the warm orange of the cup. My computer doesn't show the flowers very well, but enough that I can see some.

You do very cool work!

[KnottedYet]

Oooh, and I like the bowl with the lid!