Dinah Snipes Steveni on sun 1 may 11
Hi List
My Son the Lineman has joined crews working on restoring power to the south=
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; currently in Georgia by all accounts. He's based up here in the Northwest=
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, but goes where he's sent. He even got his passport updated for Japan. So =
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you Georgia potters keep a look out for those crews and say, 's up, son, t=
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o my Ben!
When I was living in UK -- Birmingham at the time in early 80s-- there was =
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a story on the news that a forgery ring operating in one of Her Majesty's p=
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risons had been broken up. They had a very successful operation on the go f=
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orging Bernard Leach pots! I wish I had more details as to whom was in char=
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ge of that prison's craft dept. Does Steve Mills have any more to add to th=
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at story or was it the ubiquitous "silly season" wheeze? Where are they now=
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?
Well, here's some clay stuff to keep this posting from being completely OT.=
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I know there's powdered sugar consistency of lithium and also the granular=
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sugar lith of which I've some to get through. Some find the granular smoos=
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hing around in the sieve and wonder what next? There's been advice on Claya=
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rt. I even tried the boiling water idea yesterday to make it more soluble. =
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But reading through the usual Eye Candy mags last night -- CT and PMI my Bi=
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g Reward for slogging down to Seattle Pottery Supply for...supplies -- one =
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of them had a discussion of lithium -- both versions -- and color pix of t=
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est tiles. I guess I'm just going to continue to dump the granular lith dir=
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ectly into the mix and not bother with belting down I-5 to SPS for the powd=
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ered lith. The usual glaze I use the lith in is an opaque-ish base glaze (d=
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epends on thickness with a great break on Vashon Red) for my big busily sli=
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p decorated urns. Don't notice the spotting. I won't mind the color spots =
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especially in these new glazes I'm making up which are for a slow down fire=
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schedule and I want to encourage crystal formation. Sort of like when usin=
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g the salt sprinkled on a wet wash in watercolor technique. Then I bought =
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Dry Glazes by Jeremy Jernegan Wow! Those toxic glazes. A chilling read for =
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RR, JH and Mel! Some of the work I make is not domestic ware and always loo=
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king for The Tingle Factor. Aren't we all? Test, test, test. Happy May Day=
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.
Dinah
Mount Vernon, WA.=3D20
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Zen Buddhist saying
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