Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Lunenburg County Christmas Ornament Factory - First Kiln Unloading Part 2

Here are more pics from the first kiln unloading for my new "Lunenburg County Christmas Ornament Factory" label.   I'm taking a bunch of these to Jenny Jib in Lunenburg tomorrow, the sea animal ones for sure!

Here's a link to the post with the first bunch of photos from this firing.

And here's a link to the post that describes why I began to describe my studio as a 'factory'

Edit Nov 29th: I've been to see Jenny and am marking which ornaments of the super unique ornaments are now available at Jenny Jib, in historic Lunenburg, along with one each of the new doves, sheep, squirrels, chickens and foxes.  She also has a bunch of my smaller ornaments at $15 each as well as a few papier mache ornaments left.

I'll add in here that I found out about Jenny of Jenny Jib after I heard what what a great supporter of local art she is; it's true! she offers an extremely reasonable consignment rate and pays her artists each month.  Her shop has lots of great stuff including the beautiful paintings of Zehava Power, among some other great art. 


Cow - available at Jenny Jib $22

Christmas Hermit Crabs, with holly on their shells, at Jenny Jib, $22 each

Stoneware Dove, I have a few more but they were hard to photograph as a group

Stoneware Duck, earthenware Duckling
Stoneware Fish and Seahorse, at Jenny Jib $22 ea

Foxes! and an arctic fox, one of the new Red ones is at Jenny Jib

Earthenware horses. Love these ones. Now at Jenny Jib $22 ea

Stoneware Husky with one blue, one brown eye


Earthenware Blue Jays, 2 available at Jenny Jib $22 ea

An earthenware Christmas Lobster! I think this one went home with Jenny of Jenny Jib


Earthenware Meerkat, handpainted with commercial glazes

Stoneware moose, glazed with Randy's Red Gold
stoneware chickens and Rooster, glazed with Chun White


The suffolk sheep I used to make a lot of, unfortunately the black parts don't show up well on a Christmas tree, although the sheep are popular as figurines

stoneware squirrels glazed with light rust


new stoneware sheep!
chickens glazed with "Light Rust"

stoneware owls



earthenware mouse handpainted with Ginger glaze

Earthenware kitty

An earthenware Bulldog and Stoneware cocker spaniel glazed with "Bone"

Stoneware hens and rooster glazed with "Bone"

Stoneware Hens glazed with "Randy's Red Gold"
Blue jays

Bears with scarves, both of these ones are available at Jenny Jib $22 ea

A polar bear

This is actually a Halloween ornament bat I made last year, snuck into this batch of pics.  These might look good on a white Christmas tree though!

A deer family! next time I'll try the same glaze I use for the foxes and squirrels, might look a bit brighter on the tree.

Seals and a Christmas Shark, each of these are at Jenny Jib $22 ea

It occurred to me after I chose the "Lunenburg County Christmas Ornament Factory" name people might get excited that some new factory just opened up, and then be disappointed it's just me.  I do, however, think with some careful business planning, streamlining and me getting over my hangup about using molds, there could be potential here to grow a bigger business and create some jobs, you never know!  Meanwhile I've also started working on some papier mache ornaments, so there will be some posts about that coming up!

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