Today (Thursday), the studio work day is brought to you by the letter “T”. Trays, tumblers, and hot tea! To be fair, the last several days have also been brought to you by the letter T, too. It’s been a very trayish and tumblery filled few days.

The weather is chilly and it’s definitely the season to pop on some music or a great a podcast and get to work. Listening to audio books has long been a favorite too. In the days of yore, we checked out books on tape but we’ve recently become a bit more tech savvy and have discovered the Libby app. It’s wonderful. Having someone read a book to you while you work is wonderful!

Below are a few process photos from the studio, starting with a photo of the work table. My mug of hot tea is sitting prominently right in the middle. The studio gets pretty chilly this time of year and hot tea is a key ingredient to keeping warm.

All of these pieces were assembled out of stoneware clay today (except the finished mug that houses the aforementioned hot tea I was speaking about).

They will have a long journey ahead of them. Drying out, getting glazed and/or slipped and carved, and taking two trips through the kiln. Well, one trip through each kiln, we have two. They’ll be fired twice, once in each.

There are quite a few more steps than that, but in a nutshell, that’s what they have to look forward to before they’ll be listed on the website and ready to come live with you!

Above, Left: Some butter dishes, rectangular octagonal trays in the middle, and some smaller rectangle trays in the foreground. Middle: Some longer trays and wider rectangular trays. There’s that hot tea mug again! And some completed tumblers lined up on a wareboard* in the background. Right: Six rows of tumblers lined up with a view of the wheel in the background.

•Get to know the pottery lingo! Wareboards. Wareboards are wooden and can be of any size. They’re used for carrying pottery. Plates, bowls, lids, tiles, etc,.. basically anything one would need to carry around from place to place in a pottery studio.

Above Left: Close up view of the tumblers. Above Right: Close up view of the rectangular, octagonal trays.

Below: Another photo of the six rows of tumblers lined up on the work table with a different view. This side looks towards the wooden ramp (a crowd pleaser of most every child that visits the gallery) that leads down to the main gallery space here at Brewery Pottery.

We hope you enjoyed this mini tour of a day in the life of making things in the studio.

All the above pots, like we said before, have a few more steps until their completion. They will be photographed and listed on the website, though, as soon possible. Think probably mid February (give or take).

Until next time!