The View From Kalamazoo

Cappelli online!

Meet Annie.

She’s 8 wks old.

Kalamazoo County Animal Services thinks she’s Lab and Australian Cattle Dog.

She’s a sweetie!

Ok, so I’m finally going to cough up the links I’ve been saving for the last, oh, couple months. Some of this is old news to many of you, but here we go:

Boadicea’s grave ‘under McDonald’s restaurant’ in Birmingham

Written in the stars at least 4200 years ago: Archaeologists working high in the Peruvian Andes have discovered the oldest known celestial observatory in the Americas – a 4200-year-old structure marking the summer and winter solstices that is as old as the stone pillars of Stonehenge.

Medieval documents get �475,000 grant

Lebanon’s medieval frescoes at risk

Medieval kings’ table found at Westminster

Maimonides’ works to be reassembled

Medieval homes under golf course

Bulgaria renovates 13th century frescoes

Excavation under Scottish church unearths sixth-century burial site

Lots more archaeology, we loves the precious:

Archaeologists find new evidence on Edom

Ancient Byzantine Ships Unearthed in Turkey

Accused Tomb Robber Leads Police to Ancient Tomb in Italy

Bulgarian archaeologists uncover ancient Thracian city

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Tower Near Bulgaria’s Varna

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Theatre in Sofia’s Centre

Archaeologists find birthplace of Rome’s first emperor

Egypt archaeologists discover ancient Greek carvings

Archaeologists discover remains of Phoenician city

Greek archaeologists find ancient statue of goddess Artemis

Archaeologists Discover Submerged Roman City in Egypt

Er, yeah. It’s up.

Yeah I know I haven’t done any real blogging in a couple of months.
There are Reasons.

I’ll get back to things eventually and post all of the links I’ve been saving that you’ve probably already seen, anyway, and not be such a hermit and comment on other blogs and have opinions and even share them. I’m in arrears.

But I’m not doing that yet.

One of Da Grad Students who happened to be at registration when I finally got a chance to meet The Man has emailed me the pic she took with her phone (as I, stupidly, had no camera with me. Nor was I smart enough to have him sign my Program or even a damn cocktail napkin. What can I say – it’s Sunday of Congress, I haven’t slept, and stress has snuffed out every last bright light of hope and sanity in my poor addled brainpan. We’re lucky I can dress myself and form sentences at that point, I swear.)

I’m a huge Python fangirl. (I’m not talking my dress size either, schmartass.)

And I used to use portions of his Crusades series when I was still teaching Medieval Heroes and Villains for the Institute, too. Lower-level undergrads like visual aids. (I used to teach with M&Ms too. Stop calling me that! They finally got the feudalism questions right on the exam – and that’s what mattered to moi.)

He had given his paper and signed books for two publishers and all of that, but I hadn’t seen him yet. I figured I missed out, since I was in my roundtable at the exact time I would have needed to be in Exhibits Hall and my ability to get away to attend sessions is pretty limited. But! Lo! Who should enter the Registration lobby on Sunday morning but Terry Jones accompanied by Bob Yeager (who I then harassed for an intro! throwing my “power” around! there oughta be a law!) I was looking like I hadn’t slept in days (’cause, uh, you know..I hadn’t) and had a voice like one of Marge Simpson’s sisters (had started losing it even before my roundtable the day before, so much for my dulcet tones), but I wanted to thank him for coming and hoped I would manage to do so without being a gabbling geek. He took off to take care of something before Exhibits closed as my end of the Congress Adminstrativa conversation that developed was boring as the day is long.
But! He passed back through again on his way out – and I had another opportunity to be the geekiest fangirl on the planet thank him again and express my undying love for him as Most High Humor God appreciation. And pic was taken. And I am Pleased.

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Current inventory. When I went home I found some bowls I don’t have pictures of in this batch, so either I missed taking photos of some stuff, or there are more pics out there I need to find. So there may be more added later.

Anyhoo, per request: what is available is as follows (and I can make more tree tiles if there is a need or a request for certain colors, and I can try to fit in time for other commission work besides the funerary urn and Klee-tile I already have in the queue):

Tree tiles. 8″x8″ They have a hanger cut into the back, or can be used as a trivet.

Sold

Vases.

5.5″x5″d Sold 5.5″x5.25″d Sold

6″x6″d 6.25″x4.25″d

Mug and espresso cup. Prices below.

4.75″x4″d 2.5″x2.5″d Sold

Cassarole. 

2.5″x8.25″d

Bowls. Prices below.

4.25″x5.5″d Sold
3.5″x5″d 

4″x8″d Sold

3″x7″d  3.25″x7.25″d Sold

Varia. Prices below.

4.25″x5″d Sold4.5″x3.5″d Sold

9.25″d tiny bobble on edge, Sold

Latticework fruitbowl. Sold

4.5″x10.25″widest

Modified wheel-thrown vase form.

5.5″x5″d

I haven’t posted pottery pics in a long time, and have given a ton of it away..a lot of which, I think, I never took pics of. Oh well.

Here are a bunch of pics, some of things I like, some of things I’m not as happy with at the end but I know how I’d do it differently (which itself is not unimportant.)

I’ll have to do this is in a few postings. First batch:

Mugs and a little espresso cup.



I tried to make a kyusu and yunomi set. Yunomi turned out fine – I even carved the kanji for tea into it – but the kyusu I was less pleased with. First attempt, and stubborn soul that I am I asked for no help working out my difficulties. Ah well.



Bowls. I obviously had a lot of fun with one particular glaze combination since I used it on two bowls, a mug, and the espresso cup.



Cassarole.



I used strips to make a decorative dohickey…it’s much cooler-looking in person, and it makes a great fruit bowl.



Planter I made for my mother.



Tree tiles. I experimented with a larger version here, but I prefer the smaller style I’m making now.



(yes, clearly I’m no photographer. it’s not easy to take pictures of glossy objects with a flash camera!)

Some experiments in ‘hey, how do I do this?’

A one-piece planter with draining. Must take a drill to this one – despite making the holes really large in awareness of the glaze movement in the kiln, I still ended up with glaze-filled drainage holes. Oh well – thrown in one piece..cool, huh?

And two forays into modified wheel-thrown forms. Eh…

placekeeper