Thru-hikers and glazes

Franklin is starting wake up for the spring with snowbirds and tourists coming back. As a result more people are starting to come by the Christy's art shop and today got to chat with an older AT thru-hiker. He was probably in his late fifties and was a little banged up so he was taking a few days off in Franklin to rest. His wife was mailing him sections of 'War and Peace' along the way. She would bind up small (and therefore light) sections of the book and mail them to him along he way. Pretty neat.

Also, we mixed up bigger batches of glaze and fired a kiln load. The good news is that we reproduced the colors of the glazes. The bad news is that where the application was a little thick or thin it really showed. I took the quality control hammer to most of them and kept the ones that didn't have many problems. The planter that I posted a week or so ago turned out really good.