Summer greetings to all!

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to send you all summer greetings from Zurich. It is hot hot hot
here these days and my workshop is very tempting, but I have guests until
the middle of July, so that will have to wait.

My new kiln is a wonder with the new controller. I can now also set the
cooling rate, and have had much less problems with craters. Sadly, though,
the guy (one man business) that makes the glazes I buy from my supplier has
become very ill and is unable to make glazes these days. It is very serious,
and it might turn out that his wonderful non-run high-fire glazes won't be
available any more. It would truly be a loss if that were the case, as I
haven't seen or heard of any glazes that are so easy to brush on and so
wonderfully non-runny at high temps.

When I got my new kiln, hubby did some fixing up in the laundry so that I
now have plenty of shelves to store my unfired or glazed pottery until I
have a kiln-full. That gives me extra space in the movable shelf in my
workshop.

I did some experimenting with throwing porcelain a couple of months ago, and
loved the way it threw, but hated trying to cut openings in it when it was
leather hard! I probably didn't do it at the right time or with the right
tools, I guess, and have decided that it was too much dust and too much
trouble - so the rest (a few kilos) goes into my reclaim to be mixed with my
usual clay.

Been way too long since I stopped by - blame computer-crashes and busy-ness
in general since Christmas! Hope everyone is doing well and will be posting
more! GOSH! Imagine getting caught up after 6 months away - in one night!

Keep smiling!

Marianne