Thus Far

Whew, So I've been adding up what I've made so far and I think I've got about 47 pieces, 56 if I add in the rice bowls I made two months ago that didn't come out all that good. I don't want to add them, but either way that's a lot for an amateur like myself.

Thus far I've got:

• 13 coffee mugs (2 sets of 5 one odd ball and a pair)
• 7 yunomi (one set of 5, and a pair)
• 7 non-related beer mugs
• 4 0r 5 tea pots
• 4 large jars
• 2 large pitchers
• 1 small pitcher
• 6 medium sized vases
• 2 semi-large bowls/platters >2k
• 1 small jar
• and a handful of miscellaneous stuff, a couple of very small vases, etc.

I guess I could round it up to 50-something.

Things that I don't have that I should have are as follows:

• Large "ramen" size bowls 750g to 1k
• Tokuri and ochoko (that's sake bottle and cups) small stuff, off the hump
• sets of beer cups 400g
• large platter style bowls <=2k
• katakuchi, (two kinds, could be any size)I'll just show you a picture later on at some point...
• and anything else I'm not thinking about right now...

This list is of stuff that I am reasonably sure I can make, like it's all in the range of things I've made in the past. Things out side of that range that would be good to make would be plates, I've made a total of 1 (one) plate in my entire life, and I don't want to start now. I know I should, it's just something I'm totally not interested in at all, even though my wife keeps bugging me to make some square ones for the house. Personally I like tall things, not short flat things.

So, anyways let's say I make two sets of 750g bowls, that's about 8k's of clay or 60 skins, I hate to drop a lot of money at once for some reason, and I don't think I can sell them for more than 15 bucks a piece just because its my first show, and I can't charge all that much, and then I don't really have anywhere to store that much clay, plus I don't really look forward to wedging all that clay. I think I hear the world's smallest violin playing now. What else? let's say I make 3 to be realistic tokuri sets, and 2(?) beer mug sets, I find making them boring usually. I can probably make 3 large platters and as for katakuchi, I don't know... lets say one set of tall, and one set of short. Okay that's an additional 31 things give or take. Not exactly enough to put me into the 100 range. Ideally I'd like to have about 110~120 things made because I know stuff ain't gonna come out of the kiln looking all that good or things will break etc. So what should I make to fill out the roster...? Any suggestions?

I was thinking of making those lidded domburi from an earlier post but I don't know if I have time to make something as labor intensive, and time consuming (I need to make in matching sets, something that's not my strong suit) same goes for wine glasses and more tea pots. The firing cycle is about 1 to 2 months from bone dry to glaze fired so I've basically got to make up a ton of stuff in the next two weeks or so in order to insure that it all gets fired before the show. I'll probably make another set of yunomi, and a set of coffee mugs. If I did that I'd have 18 coffee mugs and 12 yunomi! seems like a lot of cups, still in total about 41 things, and still short.