Tasty

Growth

I'm terribly exhausted and stressed-out. I need some good things to happen!

For the moment here are some balcony impressions:

Tomatoes are ripening. (How I like the shades of colour!)

There are plenty of green peppers growing.

And the nasturtium is just lovely. The blossoms and leaves are edible but I haven't tried them yet.

Sweet Red and Delicate Pink

Yesterday I picked my first ripe tomatoes and they tasted so sweet! They are small cherry tomatoes of the only sort I kept from last year. It's the plant that sprouted last and now is the tallest of all.

Some days ago I was at the pottery studio and due to the tiring hot weather got nothing else done than adding some newly purchased colours of glass to a textured plate which should be fired a third time.

I tried out pastel pink, purple, and green, and a dark pink for the first time along with some blues I tested earlier and which melt to very nice shades of bright blue. Pinks and reds are delicate glass colours that easily burn. I hope they don't. That's the excitement of working with glass.

I can't stop taking pictures with William Morris patterns in the background

These are the last peas of the season. They grew just perfectly this year. I harvested 202 pea pods, all of them maggot-free and absolutely delicious.




These chanterelles didn't grow on my balcony. I went mushrooming in the woods and found them all on the same spot.

Blue and Green

I'm always intrigued by my glassy ceramics! It's fun to play around with glass. I have complete control of the process of texturing my pieces but I can't influence the melting of the glass. I arrange it in a certain way but I never know exactly how it will turn out. It's always a surprise.


Originally the blue one was meant to be a wall hanging but the holes I left on the backside to attach the piece to a wall filled with glaze, although I did clean them before glaze firing but it seems I didn't do it carefully enough. Nevertheless it also works very well as a low dish.