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Every year a pair of Carolina Wrens nest on our patio. Over the course of several days and many scouting missions, they pick just the perfect spot, which this year is in our fox fern pot. The opening is only about 2 inches across and she has 6 speckled eggs in there!

Note this seasons choice of building materials, copious amounts of Live Oak pollen and a long blue bit of my yarn, cast off from some crochet or needlepoint endeavor.

Of course, I had to make a wren to honor the day, here she is just after being hand-formed. I need her to dry up before I start to carve her down and inscribe all the little feather details. Maybe tomorrow?

This is the first wren I made – so cute!

Lately I have been working the Mexican Hat wildflower motif in clay and when I started looking back through photos for this post, I realized that I have been making Mexican Hats in some form or another for years now. Each year these amazing flowers bloom here at the house and they have apparently been more of an inspiration to my art than I had ever realized!

I have been drawing them…

I have been crocheting them…

And now pottery!!

I am working my Art Nouveau Water Lily design on multiple pieces and mediums. Here are some pics!

I love Spring – the Redbud out front are amazing this year. Dean had pruned them heavily in the winter, I guess they needed it. They have never looked this amazing. I saw some bluebonnets already on my walk yesterday and the grape-smelling Mountain Laurel are also starting to bloom. The Spotted Towhee is back, we see this guy once a year for just a few days, so glad that Dean got a good pic.

In the glaze kiln this evening are 2 Mexican Hat Wildflower pottery eggs and an adorable mouse sitting on a mushroom.

New pottery songbirds glazed and ready to fire! Here is the Yellow-Rumped Warbler, also known as the Butter-butt and 2 more Black-capped Chickadees. They are firing in the kiln right now – can’t wait to see them tomorrow when they are done!

#4 in my Pottery Song Bird series – here is the American Goldfinch – sold on WolfArtGlass on Etsy

He has his own recycled bottle pressed glass stand and can be easily removed or repositioned.

#3 in my Pottery Song Bird series – here is the Baltimore Oriole – for sale at WolfArtGlass on Etsy!

He comes with his own recycled bottle pressed glass stand and can be easily removed or repositioned.

Three new pottery songbirds made from hand formed earthenware clay. I LOVE making these birds! Each time I pull a new one out of the kiln I am inspired to make more.

#2 in my Pottery Song Bird Series – here is the Tufted Titmouse! He sold on Etsy within 24 hours of listing!

I drew this pretty Bearded Iris in pencil back when I was in high school. I have pulled the drawing out over the years and just never could seem to find the right way to use it. Finally I found its purpose! I love how the transparent larkspur purple-blue glaze allowed me to get this watercolor effect on the tile.

Here are the finished birds! I am so happy with them and they flew away to California the day after I listed them on Etsy. Yahoo!!

#1 in my Pottery Song Bird Series – here is the Black Capped Chickadee! He sold on Etsy within 24 hours of listing!

I have been an avid birder for a long time and love looking up into the trees and matching the silhouettes of birds to the vast number of templates in my head that I have been filing away over the years. I am now translating that storehouse of knowledge into creating hand formed and incised earthenware birds. These are my first three and they are pretty close to the actual size of the Black-Capped Chickadee, Black-Crested Titmouse and Carolina Wren. These are little birds that I see visiting my feeders every day and a pair of Carolina Wrens are wintering in our bougainvillea hanging basket that we have in our back patio hot house. Every night they sneak in and camp out up there in the warmth.

These birds need to be bisque fired and then glazed. I am going to attempt to glaze them in as realistic colors as possible and am anxiously awaiting enough of our pottery to bone dry so we can fill the kiln for the bisque. Soon!!

First in my series of art nouveau incised earthenware pottery bowls. This is a crocus pattern that was inspired by a pressed glass bowl that I found at Goodwill for 59 cents. Dean threw the earthenware bowl and I incised. We need to bisque fire and then glaze, I am thinking a celadon green for the outside and ivory in the inside. Nice subtle colors that will bring out the details nicely.

Here is my first pottery bowl! Dean and I took an 8 week class at Sunset Canyon Pottery and learned how to make beautiful pottery. I highly recommend!

We have been working on pairings of our blown glass and crochet wildflowers – perfect for a wedding table, event table or kitchen table!

These are blown art glass Canteen Vases paired with posies of crochet Windflowers and Black Foot Daisies.

For sale here!

For sale here!

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