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!

Lunenburg County Christmas Ornament Factory - First Kiln Unloading Part 1

So my firing of all those ornaments went pretty well, and I've decided to come up with a label.  Lunenburg County is the Christmas Tree Capital of the World so I figured why not include the name in a new brand, so, introducing:

"Lunenburg County Christmas Ornament Factory"

Here's the first pic, a Buff Orpington stoneware chicken, I'll add more pics to this post later!

 Ok, it's Nov 23 and I'm adding more pics.

I'm very excited about my new 'brand' which I launched today at Swoon Fine Art's 3rd annual Christmas Tree Ornament Party/Sale.  I didn't make it in for the sale, so I'm not sure if any of these have been sold yet but below are pics of ornaments I took there.  There was more in this firing though, so I'll take more pics within the new few days. 

Thanks to Evgenia Makogon for taking pics and making this photo-collage for me!  Evgenia was at Swoon on Friday too, dropping off some beautiful miniature paintings for the Ornament sale. 

Me under the tree of ornaments...

 And now a whole pile of pics I took yesterday morning; this isn't even everything that went to Swoon as there are also a few foxes and squirrels I took there.  The price point on these are $18 or $22.  I took the pics before putting on the wires and labels, part of my new campaign to photograph things before they sell and I forget what they look like Plus I'm so excited to see how my work will evolve over time. For some of these ornaments I photographed the fronts as well as the backs.

Bears, the blue scarfed one was supposed to reference one of the Sochi mascots but I didn't use quite the right colour...

Blue Jay

Donkey

Hens

Cardinal

Ermine

Duckling

Doves

Frog

Horses

Owl in Santa Hat, I really like this one!

Carved up Dove, I like how the carving turned out!

Little Christmas Rat (or mouse if rats gross you out)

White Rabbit and Squirrel

Pug

Yellow Horse

White Wolf

Unicorn! I love this one!

turtle

tiger cub

Sheep! this is a new design, I've made and sold a lot of suffolk sheep with black heads and legs, but I think these will show up better on the tree. the carving is new too!

Big fat Great White Christmas Shark.