The Life & Blog of Two Potters

A few of our favorite mugs, cups, and more from our first firing!

Our favorite wood-and-soda-fired baskets, bowls, and bottles from our very first firing of our new wood kiln. Next up: mugs, cups, and lidded things! ~Nathan and Becca

The day of the unloading began with a few preparatory tasks, namely cleaning up and numbering the door bricks for an easy stack-up next time. Not so long ago, I might have rushed to take down the doors, pulled out everything, and then been faced with a giant mess to clean up . . . [...]

Two years, eleven months, and sixteen days after breaking ground on our two-chamber climbing kiln, we lit the first fire. Stacked with over 700 pieces of mostly raw and unfired pottery on 121 kiln shelves, we were ready to see how our creation actually worked! The first couple of days of the firing were fairly [...]

The week+ it took us to load our new kiln for the first time put our kiln shed to the test: rain, rain, rain. Thankfully, we had 1500 square feet (!) of covered space to keep our greenware (unfired pots) dry. Between the raindrops and thunderstorms, we ferried ware boards of pottery to the kiln, [...]

Finally. I think it’s safe to say . . . we LOVE our kiln. Let the stacking of pottery begin! ~Nathan and Becca

What a week it has been! We began working last Tuesday with our friend Dave, another friend Dan, his skid steer, and a very large pile of granite rip-rap from the quarry up the road. Our goal was to fill up the hemlock retaining walls we’d built around the kiln to hold the arch in [...]

I’m a big fan of ‘before & after’ photos. It’s just that more often than not, I seem to get to the completed stage and realize that I never took a ‘before’ shot. Well, when a project takes 2 or 3 years, it’s a little easier to ensure those photos get taken, and in the [...]