It’s Been A Little Humid

It was horridly humid and buggy on my back porch over the past several weeks.

I took refuge indoors and continued to work with clay.

While indoors, I made shallow bowls/dishes from slabs of clay draped over a plaster mold.

A clay slab is a portion of clay that has been flattened into a sheet. Clay slabs are most often made by using a rolling pin or a slab roller. Usually, the slab will have an even thickness throughout, and it can be used for hand-building pottery, known as slab pottery. From ThePotteryWheel.com

I used to make slabs of clay by using a rolling pin 🥴 until I discovered a portable table top slab roller on Etsy made by Sallie and her husband at Pottery By Saleek.

Good bye rolling pin! 😉

These shallow bowls/dishes end up making a good all-around dish for the kitchen.

My handmade dishes have even been featured in a couple of online food blogs! 😍

• Tia Clara’s Dominican Cooking – Amazing Dominican Recipes
• At Elizabeth’s Table Blog

I wasn’t planning on make a lot of these shallow dishes this summer but Mother Nature thought otherwise. 😆

Now, I have quite a few drying slowly because if they dry too fast, the dishes warp!

Meanwhile, I am back behind my wheel on my pack porch because the humidity is much more tolerable and the light breeze helps keep the bugs way.