Janine and I have been hard at work making pots, glazing and firing, getting ready for next weekends Open Studio Sale.

Everything else has been put on hold, while we clean up the studio and finish glazing and firing to get pots on the shelves ready for next week.

We will be Open from 10:00am til 4:00pm. each day , Saturday, Sunday and Monday of the long weekend.

A few weeks ago, it was starting to get cold enough to warrant lighting the wood stove in the pottery studio. 

We bought the stove last year in spring when it was the last one in the shop and on sale, reduced by a couple of hundred dollars.

Although it sat there in the pottery uninstalled all year. It turned out to be a good decision. 

I saw the same model on sale recently, at the beginning of Winter, for $500 more than we paid.

So I finally got around to installing the chimney and roof flashing in time for this recent very cold spell. 

We have had temperatures drop down to just 2 oC this last week, the first week of winter, with so much more to come as the winter proceeds. The stove has had a bit of use each day this week keeping us warm while we work.

This new model of wood burner incorporates an oven as well, so Janine baked a cake during the week to test it out and it worked really well.

I’m looking forward to more fresh baked cake and coffee while we work in future!