Hi everyone, I have not been active on this platform at all sorry, I am finding social media so overwhelming. In fact I am finding life a little overwhelming at the moment. I haven't been able to talk myself into my studio for the last three days, and I have to get back i to it. I have medieval events coming up that I really have to get things done for. I love pottery and feel extremely privileged that it is my full-time, but lately I walk in to my studio look around and just don't know where to go next and end up walking out again. I also have several videos waiting to be edited to go up on my Shoebox Studio Ceramics YT channel, but I can't seem to talk myself into completing them either. It's so frustrating, having so much to do, but feeling unable to do any of it. Do you fellow potters ever get like this, especially those that are full-time potters? How do you get yourselves out of the darkness and back into the joy of pottery? I didn't know you have to select a category for your post, couldn't decide what this should of gone under, Fails, General, Question? I went with Question, I hope that is ok? Much love to you all x

Thank you so much for all the advice from my last post! These were my top three favorites from the last kiln firing.

WOW I achieved my 1000 subscribers this morning & I am thrilled 🎉 Thank you to everyone of you who has supported me & continues to support me & my pottery channel & other social media pages 💝 Much Love to you all 💝

Shane and I were chatting over our coffee this morning and talking about kilns. We have a Skutt 1027-3 programmable with touch screen and love it. We can generally fit 60 - 120 pieces inside depending on the size and we always load a variety. We slow fire to cone 6. Since we have the 3 inch brick, after we start a firing, it will not be cool enough to unload for a couple of days. So we were wondering what kilns you all are using, if you love your kiln, what cone you fire to and how long before you open yours? Thankfully you all are pottery people and won’t think we are crazy for discussing this over morning coffee. And maybe what we share will help someone who hasn’t yet decided on which kiln to get.

@Ona Papageorgiou as requested here is my first attempt at a teapot. Glaze is 3 x Satin Oribe.