In the middle of producing for the Auckland Art and Craft Fair, while doing a bit of sorting and cleaning up in what could be the worlds messiest workshop - I am a scatterbrain - I found a pile of old sketches.

A kind of pretty I like.

The small pinch bowls have grown bigger and taller, into vase size.

Goodies from the heat came out last night. I now know the stacking of shelves in the kiln can take an earthquake up to at least 4.9 without collapse... This little number is a development on from the sketching back here . It can be made in varied heights easy too.

This is a picture of damage from the 7.1 earthquake that hit us in Christchurch two months ago. Today I am turning the kiln on again for the first time since. I really hope we don't have another big after shock for the next 5 days ( we have had over 2000 after shocks, but it is calming down ). The mess in the kiln would not be pretty.

VERY excited about going to the Auckland Art and Craft Fair in December to sell my glass!

I am up-scaling the wax dipping, the little white one is the original size I experimented with.