Art by Fuzzy

Pottery, Photography, Design - Brandon "Fuzzy" Schwartz

Pottery Supplies and the End Of Summer

Pottery Supplies

Pottery Supplies

I love pottery supply yard sales!  I made a trip up to Michigan on Thursday to see my family and check out a yard sale at Crossroads Pottery.  They didn’t have the kiln shelf that I needed and I didn’t get all the posts that I wanted but I got a lot of new stuff to experiment with.  I picked up some Laguna clay and a few random dry powders.  I also got a decent scale ($3!) to replace the cheap plastic Walmart kitchen scale which was probably $5.

Bad news: this is officially my last day of summer break.  Good news: The kiln is firing as I’m typing this. [Read more…]

Happy Easter, Goodbye Spring Break

Well, it’s one of those good news/bad news posts.  The bad news is that I must return to my day job tomorrow (which really cuts in to my studio time and sleeping in time…)  The good news is that I am writing this post from the comfort of my own home.  Yes, that’s right, we have stepped into the 21st century here at the Schwartz household and got ourselves a high-speed internet connection.  We were going to ditch Comcast but they offered us a DVR and internet package at a reasonable rate so we’re going to stick with them until they jack up the price again…

We got ourselves a Linksys router and adapter from Best Buy (thanks to everyone who gave giftcards as a gift) and I got our wireless network set up so we didn’t have to move my computer or run a network cable up the stairs.  We returned the usb adapter to Best Buy after I got the same item on eBay for exactly half the price.  So the good news is that I have quick and easy access to my website but the bad news is that I have quick and easy access to the Internet which could distract me from getting any real work done.  The middle school track season is under way as well so I will probably have minimal free time for the next few weeks.  At least I got a few things done over spring break including an order of senior pictures, taking pictures for our church easter egg hunt, some yard work and finishing the shirt design for our track team.  So now I have to get to bed since I have to wake up before 10:00 tomorrow morning…

Mid Winter Update

Well, it’s been a while since my last post so I thought I should give a quick update so you don’t get too worried.  I just started my next class at IUSB.  I bought myself a new game to distract me from getting things accomplished.  I shoveled snow and tried to stay warm on the snow days that we had this past week….

I’ve also been working on a couple projects all at one time.  In the clay studio I’ve been working a few items much larger in scale than anything I’ve previously done on the wheel.  I got a book from the library about XHTML and CSS so I started designing a new site.  I’m also trying to set up a time to go paint some dogs on a wall for one of my friends.  As I was typing this I helped my wife set up her own blog to use for her kindergarten class.  Once I finish some of these projects I’ll try to put up some pictures….