Tag Archives: pottery

New Glaze, Old Glaze

November 12, 2014News, Studio Life, Throwingclay, Coutts, customers, glaze, glazes, Glazing, marketing, pottery, sellingCindy Clarke

Five Mugs Glazed in Couttsgrass — Mugs glazed in Couttsgrass

I have been using the same glazes for about a decade. Playing with glazes and discovering new colours and textures has never been my strong suit. It has never really caught my interest as much as it should. But then, how much should it? We all have our areas of interest. That’s what makes us the potters we are. I have always had cool glazes….. I think. I combined two glazes I have used together for years, but in a whole new way, and voila…..

The new glaze “Couttsgrass”

Close up to show all the colours of the new glaze.

It is a busy time of year. We have a new venue, Galleria Inglewood in Calgary. It is a wonderful store, and they will take as much pottery as I can send them. They sell a lot of pots. They don’t have me on the website yet, but they have been very busy. As I said, it is a busy time of year. I have a few local Christmas Craft shows coming up. Pot production is in full swing.

Gotta get to work.

Until next time.

AKA Mrs. Clay

Life in a small town.

October 26, 2014Life in a small town., NewsCoutts, kids, life, new life, pottery, retirement, small town, sunriseCindy Clarke

We moved from Edmonton AB, a city of about 1,000,000 people, to Coutts, AB, a village of about 300 people.

We have been here for almost a year and life here is not quite the same as life in Edmonton. For one, we are mostly retired and not getting up every morning and hurrying out the door to be The Clay Teacher. The reason we picked Coutts was the cost of living. Now that we are settled, we are spending about $1,300 per month less to live in Coutts than in the city. We made a few online changes, new server, got rid of a few websites we weren’t using and a few other things. That brought the total up to about $1,500 less per month than we were spending a year ago. The cost of living was the motivator to get out of the city, but could not have landed better. It is beautiful here. A wonderful little town with wide streets and grand old trees. Continue reading Life in a small town. →

Let there be pots.

October 8, 2014News, Studio Life, Throwingart, clay, customers, marketing, pottery, sellingCindy Clarke

I have been making some pots and put a few loads through. It feel good to be back at the wheel. All the orders have been filled and I am now just making pots. I had a load of Prairies come out last week.

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I don’t have to.

October 3, 2014Fun and Family, Newsclay, fun, kids, pottery, videoCindy Clarke

For the first time in decades, I don’t have to do anything. I have worked for years as a potter and The Clay Teacher. I have had orders to fill, dead lines to meet, classes to teach and work that just had to be done. We moved to Coutts and we had the house to reno and the yard to landscape. Now it is all done. Well the house will never be “done”, but it is done for now. We got the studio up and running and I had orders to fill.They are done.

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Tag Archives: pottery

New Glaze, Old Glaze

Life in a small town.

Let there be pots.

I don’t have to.