Black/Brown agateware bowl with blue highlights.

Black/Brown mugs with transparent glaze and blue & green highlights.

Agateware porcelain mugs

Agateware porcelain cup and saucer with ultramarine blue drizzle.

Wire wrapped briolette pendant

I wrapped copper wire through this briolette of pinapple quartz and attached it to a black leather cord.

Wire wrapped copper rings with beads

I made these rings by wrapping thick copper wire around a knitting needle and then wrapping thin wire to secure some beads.

Some lampworked glass beads and a fused silver ring.

I made these beads by melting colored glass rods with a mapp gas torch and twisting the molten glass around a coated metal mandrel. I made the ring by wrapping fine silver wire around a big knitting needle (the same size as my ring finger) and then fusing the wire in to one contiguous ring with a butane torch. To harden the ring I beat it with the ball end of a ball-peen hammer against a steel block.

New retaining wall and flower bed for spring.

This first photo is through my rainy window looking out over my new flower bed. The pineapple express brought a warm drizzle from hawaii that pleasantly soaked my new plants... The only downside was some high winds. The second photo is along my street, you can see one of my Hellebores knocked down by the wind... it's up on stakes now.

This next pair of photos are of the view looking at my house and along my side street. You can see that the retaining wall isn't all that (but it's not bearing a load so much as edging the lawn and keeping the two zones from intruding on each other. I also put some soil down in to a low spot on my lawn that I may have to reseed if the grass doesn't push through. My next big yard project (aside from trying to compost the blocks of sod I cut out) is to rebuild the trellis in front using taller 4x4 posts anchored to the concrete.

Here's one of my mugs in action!

My friend Sebastian (aka Sebadiah) is a big fan of yerba matte so I made him a mug and this is a sequence of shots of his matte setup. Note the awesome silver filter straw.

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Klamath yellow and white porcelain agateware dish with white porcelain accents and ultra marine blue drizzle

Karen and I made this plate for my mom.

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