the treadlehead

Life and times of Careen Stoll and the Tin Man, a potter and her kiln in Portland, OR. This blog is rapidly becoming more about my thoughts, restoration and modification of the carriage house, travel writing, and links to fun art stuff. KILN LOGS and notes on construction are under Tin Man on CATHOUSECLAY.COM. with Love

Thursday, September 19, 2013

solar powered porcelain pickling crocks!

--> Care of your crock Your fermenting crock is made of durable vitrified porcelain. With normal care, it will serv...

Friday, May 10, 2013

As I spend a little time editing web copy for the launch of our new collective website TinMansHands.org, I ran across this post from many ye...

Friday, June 29, 2012

summer class, first day

noncredit, so I can be very relaxed. I state it on the first day: my teaching philosophy is to pretty much follow where your interest is: i...

Thursday, May 17, 2012

may, and musing on this "job" while tending the garden

I've hit an odd sensation: wondering if the pure sensory pleasure of porcelain and liminal obliteration of fire are really the reasons ...

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

old man winter smiling on us firing feb 2012

Old Man Winter is smiling on our first firing of the year. That's Georgianna Jones taking it all in... we are at cone 7 on this mild ...

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

close to the bone

a pensive moment as I too encounter one of the many hurdles so many low-income people must leap. I have never hid the fact that much of my ...

Thursday, February 2, 2012

full stop

to say that everything comes to a halt when seed packets or better yet, live plants, arrive at the door* is not completely accurate. but ce...

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