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Okay, so this weekend I worked on a whole bunch of things. I spent time on some of my favorite pottery pieces and ended up finding a new glaze that I really love. I’ll be sending out some of the wallets I made last week, along with a handful of mugs and cups finished in that new glaze, mostly as holiday gifts people have been ordering. It was a really exciting week for me — I sold about fifteen pieces, which felt huge.
On Saturday especially, I did a little bit of everything — pottery, embroidery, concrete, block printing, vinyl cutting. It was actually very productive, but I sort of shirked my new duties as a content creator and did not do a great job filming anything, so I now have an assortment of disembodied clips that will be fun to wrestle with and try to squeeze a video out of. I did plan and film a little appliqué and hand stitching for a new tomato shirt, and I think I’m going to commit to a whole Tomato Fest line to promote before the festival next summer — some small ceramic dishes, earrings, block-printed tote bags, lots of clothing, etc. The hand stitching for the appliqué was new but has quickly become my preference — it’s slower, but I can do it anywhere pretty discreetly without it being too inconvenient. It got a test run at Raghav and Justin’s place during the Pats game this weekend, and even with the Pats loss, the embroidery was something good that came out of the day.
I also put up some flyers in East this weekend that are sort of a piece in and of themselves — designed to make you do a double take. The phone number is split across tear-off tabs at the bottom, so once one is taken the number becomes incomplete. I’m hoping that makes a few people laugh, pause for a second, and maybe scan the QR code to see what’s going on.
I’m also working on a new catchall / key-drop / ashtray dish design that’s meant to be 100% real pool construction (concrete, mortar, tile, grout). I’ve done a few test runs so far, but I still haven’t dialed in the right concrete consistency. I included a photo of one attempt that ended up cracking. In a completely different lane, I also turned my Coway Air Mega (which already looks like an iPod Shuffle) into an actual iPod Shuffle — visually, at least — using my vinyl cutter to cut decals for the icons.
This week, I’m planning to make another tote bag, pick up some slab-made plates from the kiln, ship out a few more pieces, and then try to slow down a bit and enjoy a quieter stretch before the holidays.
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