Soooo Busy!

It was a very busy week helping my women's golf club prepare for a golf tournament we hosted on Friday. The weather forecast kept us in suspense all week, 60% chance of rain, then 30% and finally 10%. Well, it sprinkled in the early morning before the players checked in so some of our preprinted score cards were smeared, and our check-in sheets were damp and hard to write on. But everyone had a good time, we had good food, lots of raffle prizes and the weather cooperated with sunshine later in the morning! Perfect cool weather for golf.

I was able to photograph and post some of the items that came out of my last glaze firing. Remember the four square handbuilt bowls that Fine Cooking Magazine bought for a photo shoot? No, I have not heard or seen anything of the bowls, but I did make a few more. They are so cute and perfect for a single serving of something wonderful.

In The Name of Love Treasury

Wow! This treasury is really packed with beautiful items, and my stained glass box is so fortunate to be included!
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTQ4OTQyNDl8MTA1OTMzNDkzNQ/in-the-name-of-love

Crazy Squirrels!

The squirrels love my yard and my neighbors' yards because we have year-round fruit and vegetables. But this is crazy. They have started dropping lemons from my tree and eating the peel only! What's with that?

I have several dwarf citrus trees and noticed today that my little red grapefruit tree has gigantic fruit! These grapefruit are so sweet when they ripen. I hope the squirrels don't notice them. Fortunately my lemon tree is loaded, so the squirrels should be occupied for months.

Beautiful Bowls of Soup Treasury

It's been raining all day and I made the most wonderful chili!  I just saw this treasury on Etsy and wanted to share it. These bowls are so great -- calling for homemade soup or stew!
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTM4NDkxNXwxMDQyOTQzMzM1/beautiful-bowls-of-soup

Bijoux Etsy Treasury

My Etched Copper Earrings were included in this great treasury today:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTY5MDU5MXwxMDMwMDg5OTg5/bijoux

New Clay and Glass Items

I glazed and fired my clay pieces this week and unloaded the kiln yesterday. It was a great firing, and I've been sanding mug bottoms (the clay has a lot of grog), photographing, and posting pieces one by one to my Etsy shop. Here are a couple mugs I made using the new texture tools I showed you a while back.

Here's an apple baker:

I also added some fused glass holiday tree ornaments and this stained glass train. Cute!

The Blooming Succulents

You've probably tired of my succulents by this time. I promise this will be the last post showing THIS particular plant and its buds and blooms. You saw the buds developing into balloon-like buds a few days ago. Well, the next day there were blooms, and those blooms lasted for only one day. So lucky for you I had my camera. Sorry to have my wrinkly hand in these shots, but the other option was to get down on my back and shoot up.

Here are the blooms. And the flies. Did I forget to mention there is also a smell?

And here is another perfect bloom on the other side of the plant:

A Few New Etsy Treasuries

I love looking through the Etsy treasuries, and I hope you do too.  Not only am I posting them to show my pieces, but each treasury has 16 shops to look through. Who knows what you'll find, especially with the holidays around the corner. And the shopping is so easy. You press the "Add to Cart" button and then you pay using a credit card or PayPal.

My Rust Matt handbuilt mug is in this one:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTIwMjI2ODF8OTg2MTA1NDE5/little-fairys-christmas-wish-list

I love all the variety of whistles!  I did an all-whistle treasury a few months ago too.

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NzgwNTYxN3wxMDAyOTQ3MTM0/call-me-just-whistle-and-ill-be-there

And look at all the boxes! 

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTcwNDA3MTZ8OTk2ODM5ODM5/little-boxes-in-the-hillside

A new artist I love -- Jenny Hoople

Jenny Hoople creates jewelry out of river rocks and natural stones. It's amazing how many colors there are! She lives in Wisconsin and is so friendly and talented. I recently bought some of her Job's Tear Seeds and want to grow a few myself.  Check out her work:
jennyhoople.com
http://www.etsy.com/shop/JennyHoople

She recently started another site, a new website for Nature Crafts. She says if you want to promote your own nature craft or you've found something you want to share, this is for you. I submitted a few of my own pieces and she posted a couple!  Here's that address:
CraftingNature.com

Super Light White Treasury

Isn't this a beautiful Etsy treasury? It includes my handbuilt stoneware mug.

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTYzNDk4ODl8OTg1MDY4MTAx/super-light-white