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Mother's Day Clay Oven

   Wed, May 14, 2008 - 6:09 AM
On Mother's Day, I made a clay pizza&bread oven in my backyard. Dug up the clay soil from my meadow, added sand, water and straw and worked the day away piling, shaping, pressing and sculpting. As it came together, it began to look a little like a rabbit, so I chose that as the sculptural form and worked in some details (if you have a hard time seeing the rabbit in the picture, look for its ears pressed against its back and its nose above the oven opening). This weekend I added earth plaster and some broken pottery mosaic pieces and fired it up. It went pretty well, although we had some trouble getting the temperature right for bread, but we'll work out the bugs yet...



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Wed, May 14, 2008 - 7:28 AM
great job peg!
so crafty.....
Wed, May 14, 2008 - 10:03 AM
It's beautiful!!!
Mon, May 19, 2008 - 4:14 PM
uber cool, can't wait to see it used.
and it kinda looks like a giant mother's day chocolate truffle!