This week I have been working hard on making my first teapot. I made the body and a lid on Monday. The first lid didn't work, so I made two more on Tuesday and on Wednesday, one of them worked perfectly! On Wednesday I also made my spout and my handle. They were too wet on Thursday to attach to the body so I assembled all of the pieces on Friday. I put some wet clay into the teapot to make all of the clay the same wetness and put it in a sealed bag. I will let it dry next week. I also glazed my project for my math teacher and my wheel-altered project.

This week I have completed a lot of projects and am in the works of some projects also. I found this bowl, which is the picture on the left, so I'm not sure why I made it, but I think the glaze turned out really nicely. I also made a cylinder for my math teacher, but I thought I made one that was too short, so this is just an extra project. Finally, my lidded project finally came out of the glaze....butttt it kinda sucks. The red stain ran like crazy over the white stain, the lid got stuck on the project and refuses to come off, and the side of my project cracked (from trying to remove the lid) and a whole chunk of the side came off. On a more positive note, the better cylinder that I made for my math teacher came out of the bisque and I will probably glaze it on Friday. I have also made a lot of progress on my tea pot. Currently I have the body, lid, and spout all made. I just need to make the handle and assemble it. Also, my wheel-altered project just needs to come out of the bisque so I can get glazing on that :)

This week I have been in the works with many projects. I glazed a cylinder that I don't like very much, so I don't know what I'm going to do with that. I am also in the process of glazing my lidded project. Currently it is all just white and I am going to stain red butterflies on it. This week I also made my wheel-altered project which is what the two pictures are of. It is a tall vase with a wide belly that has a scalloped lip. I can't decide how I want to glaze it, but I'm thinking of incorporating the wavy theme somehow. Next week I need to foot and bisque this project and start working on a teapot.