By Joyce Lieberman August, 2025
In July, I started a project to use up my red and white low fire clay. It had to be reclaimed in buckets because it had hardened. Amy, a new neighbor who had just broken her pot, wanted to learn how to do it and was really enchanted by the process.
It was important not to mix the red and white together, even though they were both cone 05, the same as bisque ware.
The red clay had a lot of water in it so it took weeks and meanwhile, we got the white clay usable.
Two people working consistently together with clay get to know each other pretty well. We did a few other side projects including painting her jumpsuit for Burning Man and turning the sourdough bread starter project (epic fail on my part) into a paper mache bunny hat.
The first glazed kiln load was white clay
Amy caught on quickly and we used all the low fire clay.
It’s great to finish up. Now I will go back to Cone 5, all white clay and use different glazes.
Now what shall I plant in pots in late August in California?
Well geraniums to start because I trimmed some and the cuttings often workout!!
Joyce Lieberman 