Thursday, September 10, 2015

Useful Leaves

In this firing I had a number of leaves. These can be used for a spoon rest, soap dish, ring dish, bread and butter plate, appetizer dish, etc. They are very useful leaves.

Would you believe I don't have one of these on my stove for a spoon rest? I must remedy that.

This and the next two are a larger size leaf I made, about 9 x 6, suitable for a salad or side dish.



And here are a few more of the smaller sized leaves, about 4 x 5 inches.

 This is a green celadon over the speckled stoneware.

All of these leaves are made with the speckled stoneware clay. These leaves are a popular seller at the farmer's market so I am trying to stock up before all the leaves have fallen. There are a few more items to show you from this firing coming up next. Thanks for reading and for all your comments.

9 comments:

  1. Such pretty (and useful) things. I can well understand why they are good sellers.

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    1. Hi Sue, thanks, yes very useful, who would have thought.

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  2. Linda, these are so nice. I am not surprised they are good sellers at the farmers market. Isn't it funny that we so often don't have some of our favorites in our own kitchen?

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    1. Hi Michele, thanks, yes I must remedy that, sometimes my stovetop is a real mess. Ha.

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  3. Nice leaves! Speckled Brownstone is one of my fav clays to work with.

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    1. Hi Pam, thanks, it really is a good clay and so foregiving.

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  4. I love the leaves too, tomorrow we go off to Sunflower Festival in Saskatchewan and I will take several orange and gold sunflower leaves with me. They are a great kiln filler too!

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    1. Hi Nancy, thanks, yes they are good kiln fillers and when packing they stack up nicely too.

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  5. They'd make terrific, novel spoon rests. :)

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