Home Sweet Home!

Lots to report this week as well!  Here is a pic from the front porch of our country home; I'm looking forward to maybe getting a few alpacas and/or sheep in this field. The north branch of the La Have is in the distance but I'll get better pics of the river later.

 

"Wise One" - earthenware 

 

 

Last Sunday I joined the Lunenburg Art Gallery which I'm quite excited about.  It was a random sort of occurrence, I had gone in there with an invite for Helen Opie's upcoming show at Swoon and met some really nice people there; it's a great spot and celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.   Members get to have a piece in the member's gallery each month, so this month I put in one of my favourite earthenware vases "Wise One - a tribute to Jack Sures" as well as some stoneware ornaments and figurines for the display case.

My mom who is back in Richmond BC, and very supportive of our wanting to get into gardening, mailed us about 50 clippings from her red currant, black currant and gooseberry bushes.  She's given me instruction on how to tend them, and I hope they will thrive.  My father passed away in 2007 at the age of 81, and my parents garden was a huge source of pride and enjoyment for them; their rows of currants being a highlight so it'd be nice to have some of those memories live on out here.  Here is a photo of the baby currants sunning themselves in my new studio, with one of Joanne Colman's "dreamcatcher birds" at the top left, there are more pots of clippings in front of the other window too:

I thought about building a studio on to the house but realized the house is plenty big for 2 people and using an upstairs bedroom as a studio will be just fine, especially since it has a view of the river.  The rest of the room is a disaster right now but hopefully the transformation of cluttered room into magnificent "dream studio" won't take too long! 

There is a good sized metal outbuilding that I hope to get wired up so that I can keep my kiln in there, and even glaze out there in the warmer months:  

The last bit of exciting news is that the new Nova Scotia Potters Guild website is now live, and the website committee has been populating the members area with information about potters as they arrive.  I think it looks awesome and will be a great resource for the province's potters and pottery fans alike!