John, Katherine, Rowan and I decided to take advantage of the great weather yesterday. We threw assorted stuff into the car and scurried out around the bay to geocache, visit a studio and generally explore. Upper Island Cove is one of those places that we’ve always meant to visit, but never stopped at. Katherine’s job…
Category: craft
Beach Firing
Each summer, the members of the Craft Council Clay Studio hold a beach firing, where they fire an astounding array of pottery pieces in a huge pit at Middle Cove Beach. Some are wrapped in seaweed and all are left to the amazing vagaries of smoke and fire for several hours. It’s a fabulous time…
Craft of the Day: Cara’s Joy in the Annual Members Exhibit
A series of three pieces entitled “If I Open My Eyes,” by Cara’s Joy (blog link – worth a regular read!) are the Craft of the Day for Canada Day 2011. If it’s colour and a boundless zest for life, laughter and seeing the vibrancy in the world around us that turns your crank, these…
Claymaille scupture: Testing
Claymaille scupture, originally uploaded by VickyTH. I’m testing the whole interconnected scheme of WordPress, Flickr, Twitter and Youtube. bear with me. To divert you, I send you to this video: Here you can see Jason Holley rearrange his modular clay raku sculpture, which is made up of 9072 rings, linked into blocks. Below is the…
Craft of the Day: Roz Ford’s jewellry
I’ve been trying to think on how to update my index of craftspeople while keeping them current and making it interesting, and decided that I will spend the next while writing “Craft of the Day” posts. Each day I will find a product (some will be from the Craft Council of Newfoundland & Labrador’s shop,…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 