Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th edition of Sunday Ceramics, there is no housekeeping this week which is fabulous and the lack of naggy blog duties means that I can launch straight into the Clay News for this week.
I have a ceramic shop that I set up through my Kim Foale Ceramics page, I used an app that I googled and the shop seems to be fairly straight forward to use. The thing about the shop is that I keep on forgetting to tell people that I have a shop because I keep on forgetting that I have a shop. Clearly I am never going to be a gazillionaire.
If any of you sell online, how do you do it? What platforms do you use? And do you forget that you have shops?
The other factor impacting my sales has been the Heartbleed SSL bug. A quick rundown on the Heartbleed bug is that it has been around for two years without anyone noticing and now that it has come to light there is much head desking. Basically, Heartbleed is an encryption flaw in OpenSSL software that means that hackers can decode your information by accessing the memory of data servers.
What you can do is NOT PANIC, because if heartbleed has been around this long, my sanguine view is that as one of the zillions of internet users, if you haven’t had any issues so far, we are probably fairly safe.
The other thing you can do is change your passwords, BUT only on the sites that have issued a security patch. Mashable has a good list of popular websites and their responses to heartbleed here.
This week has been a week of preparation for glazing rather than making.
I photographed this cup I made in my first or second year. I disliked the cup very much at the time, as a student I disliked most of my work. Luckily for me my daughter Veronica liked the cup and seven years after making it, I find I quite like the glaze combo. It is a discontinued Walkers or Clayworks Raku Gold clay #60 mesh. I liked to throw with a gutsy clay, when I threw. The top glaze is a Greg Daly yellow, which I shall have to try and track down the recipe, and the bottom glaze is a thinly applied Mellow Matt glaze.
MM GLAZE
Potash Feldspar== 50
Whiting== 25
Kaolin== 25
Rutile flour== 3
Today is a Clay Club Sunday and I had best get a wriggle on if I am going to get out the door in time.
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happy sunday chickie 🙂
Happy Sunday to you as well. 🙂 Also did you have a look at my reading the JAC entry on the Australian Ceramics Association’s FB wall? *grins*
I like that Greg Daly yellow very much.
I wish you loads of good luck (sales) with your shop.
Did you get a minute to see Angel on my post yesterday?
Thanks River, I will pop over now 🙂
It is a lovely cup with Greg Daly yellow. Happy rediscovering – enjoyed your post
Thanks Krista, I just need to dig up the recipe now.