Most of the making of this book I chronicled in an earlier post. I finished it with the weed-stamp on the back, using acrylic paint mixed with gel retarder (plain acrylic paint doesn’t work here, as it is too dry.)  The face on the front is a linoblock I cut of myself using a photograph as a reference.

I made the epoxy stickers by pouring drops of epoxy on some printed wrapping paper and the cover of a catalog, then cut them out once the epoxy cured.

Even though our bedroom is the master bedroom, and we’re not likely to change, the kids decided that our room needed to be named after a mythical creature as well. I chose the unicorn. I also noticed that you could say that each animal represents a different element, and that the unicorn would be earth. Kind of silly, but I like the synchronicity, and earth is the element I like the most.

This is my largest smiley ball, and it was coil-built rather than built as two pinch-pots joined at the lip.  It’s about fourteen inches in diameter.  It looks slightly different now, because I painted it with iron-paint after I took this photo. The iron paint is a suspension of iron particles in an acrylic paint base, and it should rust after being exposed to air.

Bridget Cherie Harper made a batch of her own special porcelain for us to test.  Pure white and throws like a dream even when only a few hours old. The glaze is cranberry, and it came out very red.