Prep Work for Throwing

Hi, and thanks for checking in!

Over the past few days, I've been preparing my studio for more abuse. It gets pretty messy around here after a few throwing sessions, making a few glazes, and firing the kiln. I'm planning on throwing about 350-400lbs of clay on Saturday. Here's a list of things I'd like to make:

Butter Dishes
Coffee Mugs
Yunomi
Small Pilgrim Bottles
Medium-Sized Bowls for Cereal and Soup
Small Bowls
A few "O's" - I'll write more on this later because at my pottery sale last weekend there were a lot of questions.

I usually like writing down a few forms before I start working, so I don't get too consumed in making one thing. I'm not a production potter, and that's the way I like it. It's not that I can't do it, because I have. Making 100 mugs, 100 bowls, 100 whatever . . . it gets old. Why not just jigger the damn things with a machine?! I'd sell out though, if someone paid me $20 per mug for 100 of them, it's just mind numbing to make them all the same size, caliper measuring for the rim diameter, blah, blah, and blah. Wabi-sabi is the way for me! You can look it up on Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi), and I'm sure I'll be writing a separate blog on the idea sometime soon.