What I've been up to

I've been busily working away in my studio lately - and I thought I'd share a little. Below are some small teapots that I just fired last week. I usually make larger teapots, but the one-person teapot has won my heart over!When I'm not making pots, I've been working on my blog. In addition to writing posts this week, I've discovered Google Analytics and I've been having a lot of fun with it.

A little sampling of the information that I've gotten from it this week...

Visitors of Pottery Blog are from:
US, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden, Israel, Mexico, Brazil, France, India, Romania, Japan, Switzerland, South Africa, Taiwan, Germany, Denmark, Philippines, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Norway, Poland, New Zealand, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Singapore, Estonia, Iran, Lithuania, Ireland, Sri Lanka, Finland, Indonesia, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal

A sampling of search phrases:
In addition to the basic phrases and keywords (soda firing, Emily Murphy, pottery blog, ceramics blog) there are some other more in depth searches like:

• using shino in soda firing
• ceramic kiln timings
• ceramic wedging boards from plaster
• site:potteryblog.com pottery blog tour part 2
• can i have a signature stamp made of my signature?
• how to throw a pottery mug
• eat his heart out with a spoon (!)
  

And some things that I think my blog was probably not helpful with:

• how to pronounce "pottery" in korean
• emily murphy "neuroscience"

I have also been spending time reading other people's blogs. You can see my list of links on the right side of the page (just scroll down a little). Between reading all of these great blogs from around the world, and then seeing where my site visitors are coming from, the world is feeling very small.

I'm off now to have a completely different art experience. Ian and I are heading out to Burning Man in Nevada for the next week with a gang of folks from The Opening Planning Project and friends. Most of this will not be clay related, but some is. There is going to be a tea stand/ house at our theme camp that I made teapots and tea bowls for.
Burning Man is known for an event with virtually no commerce, and lots of "gifting." The gifts that we're bringing are necklaces (pendants) that are made out of both porcelain and stoneware, and have some of the soil (playa) from the host land rolled into the clay, and then soda fired. The soil fluxes to a temoku like glaze. Photos to come!