Gaining Experience Is Not Always Fun

The show is now less than a week away! I have had a few disappointments with finishing work lately:

*In the pit fire I finally managed to run, my best sculpture (an expensive one too!) cracked. A lot. Unsalable. On the plus side, now I can go crazy and experiment with it!

*My favorite glaze, one I developed myself, crawled in a ridiculously unattractive way. It hasn't done this before... I will have to figure out what is wrong with it because I love it.

*I managed to glaze several pieces with a satin clear glaze rather than a clear crackle glaze. They looked awful... but hopefully some can be fixed by refiring with the crackle glaze. We will see.

*I have certain heron and swan tiles that I have not been able to find a knockout glaze for. My continuing experiments have failed to produce something stunning... should I keep searching or stop making those tiles?

But enough with the list of failures! They are just a few more steps in my path to awesomeness. I can't get better without being willing to take chances. I have plenty of great pieces for the show and now I get to start photographing them all!