2 Bottles up for Auction

Today I put these 2 accordion bottles up for auction on Ebay. All proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders to support this organization who is doing such great work to help Haiti.
We have all been horrified by the earthquake in Haiti.
I want to help.
Please help me raise money for Doctors without Borders by clicking this link and bidding away.

Thanks everyone.
The bottle featured in the post below is up to 113.00! Couldn't do it without all of y'all!
Leanne

Bottle up for auction

We have all been horrified by the earthquake in Haiti.
It is amazing and terrifying and unbelievably sad.
I want to try to help.
This people bottle is up for auction on ebay.
Please help me raise money for Doctors without Borders by clicking this link and bidding away.
I will put more pieces up this weekend. All proceeds go to the cause and the shipping is Free!
Thanks everyone.
Leanne

Onward and Upward...

Hey Everyone!!!
I have been a bit absent but have been lurking behind the scenes, visiting blogland every so often, keeping up. The reason I have been so quiet these past few months is because I got a little burnt out this fall season. well, A LOT burnt out. So I decided to take a wee break and travel some, read some, lay about some, regroup.
Now, I am ready to rumble. The fingers are itching and dancing to get back to work. Ideas are beginning to bubble in the old brain.
Some of you will remember that I started a bottle project last January. The idea was to make 100 bottles throughout the year, pushing the form of the bottle, pushing my own conception of the bottle. Well, I made more than 100....I don't know how many more......but I became somewhat obsessed. To get started this year, here are some images of the last bottles that I made last year.

Bless us all, everyone.

Happy Holidays to all of you.
Many Blessings and Good Cheer from the Pizio's
Bark, Bark, Meow and Cock a Doodle Do!

More Treemakers

Here is a bigger bottle form that I am making for a group of bottles that will go to the Greenhill Winter Show this December. This piece is 26 inches tall and around12-14 inches across. These new bottles are so much fun to make as I can build much higher than I could throw. Soon I want to make some forms that are life size and build kilns around them to fire them. (ps. got the idea from Mike Sandford, potter extraordinaire from Elon University) HMMMMM....can't wait till January, my vacation month....

Fall Fever

During fall my focus is tuned to the trees, their rustle of leaves, the beauty in their colors.
The trees seem to beckon to us all with their whispering and waving limbs.
I thought it would be a great time to finish my Treemakers story. Here they are with the leaves falling down around them.
When I was explaining the story at the show last weekend, I realized the the story needed a traumatic event and resolution much like Snow White or Hansel and Gretel. So I am trying to decide what will happen to these two twins and how they will resolve it.

The baby chicks are growing up and Frieda is almost a full grown Chicken/ Rooster.....we don't know yet. I will post pictures soon and tell you a couple of funny chicken stories to boot.

hope you have a great week!
L

Bigger bottles and alien embyos

The bottles are coming along at a fast rate. This new accordion form is fascinating me at the moment....it is not only the form but the challenge of making this shape. It is very fragile and tedious, lots of waiting for the piece to set up before continuing upwards. I won't even mention how delicate my touch has to be to carve this simple line design......I'm in love.























And then these little guys have come creeping back after watching a UFO Hunters marathon a couple of weeks ago. Love that show!
The embryo design started 14 years ago when Miss Haley was conceived. I wanted to watch how she was developing each week. Now and then they become aliens and after seeing about 6 UFO shows in a row, they seemed appropriate.






















And finally some finished circle bottles....






















Hope you have a great week!