mention on the radio

i've been sitting in my studio tonight listening to bbc radio, to Janice Long , who was one of my favourite female dj's when i was a teenager, who has the most comforting voices.

well, i decided to send her an email, and she said hi on air to me about half an hour later!

probably my first time on the radio

the latest work that I refired didn't work, so i feel like i've wasted alot of valuable time, but i now have some advice on what steps i should take for it not to happen next time

to cheer me up i took a pic of my fridge door, which has fresh pics on it

new work

I've been making loads of mugs and cups and bowls recently, but when i got them out of the kiln all glazed, there were bits of glaze all peeling off, not good, and rather frustrating.

so i'm off to lisa's again today to try refiring them to save them, keeping my fingers crossed that it'll work.

On a  better note, I got featured in the Editors Picks on Etsy last week with one of my mugs and also on another blog- Soolip

Houstonist Photo of the Day

I got one of my Holga photos on the Houstonist site as 'Photo of the Day' yesterday, chuffed about that

Love Cups

Love Cups
Originally uploaded by mccheek

fresh out of the kiln and just uploaded these to my shop, the gold decals are all super and shiny!

cuddling and checking emails

cuddling and checking emails, originally uploaded by mccheek.

wondering if this will appear cut off, doing an experiment, as blogging from flickr isn't really working too well

Holga Sunflowers

sunflowers, originally uploaded by mccheek.

I've spent quite a bit of time today scanning the negatives from my latest holga film,and now I've uploaded them onto flickr I just recently got the scanner, and I have to say its not my thing, its too fiddly and hard to not get dust and finger prints on the negatives, I can see why HPI charge so much!
I'll persevere with it though, hopefully it will get easier.

New year's resolution

Happy New Year to everyone

This is the start of me making more work, not wasting time, not that I sit around that often, but Focusing on the good stuff! like getting more of my own work made, getting the garden to look better and continuing to fix up the house!

Now i've written this for all to see, I have to actually stick to it!

Oh and I got a mention in a lovely blog called HELLO-TIGER recently, from Sweden, I coudn't understand what she was saying though. But the other pics were things that I liked too

I liked her logo, made up of sign letters, tried to copy it in here, but can't figure that one out

Carbonmade- more ways to waste time

I found this new way of making a small website- Carbonmade, I like the format, its all about showing projects you're working on, and its free too, check out the start of mine

Awake at 4am

This photo has nothing to do with what i wanted to write, but I like the fact that T Bone wanted to get in the photos, especially as it was in the You Take the Biscuit one

Seeing as I've been awake since about 2.30am with toothache, I've been on my computer and wondering what my next step with McCheek's Mayhem is- I really would like to spend more time making things, my full time job is draining me and not creative.

So I need to get a plan of action together!

Another feature online!

I just got another feature on line today on Refinery 29, unfortunately I only had the one mug and it sold in the first day on Etsy.

I am enjoying this new interest in my work.

I'll be getting my moulds out this afternoon to start more casting.

McCheek's Mayhem on DesignSponge.com

got some of my work featured on the designsponge website today, sold a piece from my Etsy shop straight away! very excited as i was ready to give it all up

sitting room

sitting room, originally uploaded by mccheek.

sean changed round the living room so we could sit next to the fire, its our first day to have it on this winter,nice and cosy
Mark Flood's Owl painting in the background

Ceramic Bowls

Ceramic Bowls, originally uploaded by mccheek.

going to get some of these in my Etsy Shop soon, i left them plain at sean's suggestion.

'Bubbly Mugs'

'Bubbly Mugs', originally uploaded by mccheek.

here are some more

Bubbly Mugs

, originally uploaded by mccheek.

just got these finished mugs out of the kiln this morning, will be adding some to Karen's online shop- greenergrassdesign soon

the beginnings of my domestication

calamondin makings, originally uploaded by mccheek.

on my day off from work I harvested the fruit from the small Calamondin tree(small sour oranges) and was very domesticated and made some bottled vodka and some marmalade, both experiments, we'll see what they taste like

YOu Take The Biscuit

YOu Take The Biscuit, originally uploaded by mccheek.

one of my latest mugs, for all of those people who take the biscuit

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Sophia's Doll's House

I got this photo from Susan , she had bought some of my handmade tiles, 

this is what they look like on a floor after Sophia (age 4) arranged them

- in her dolls house

I rather like the scale

maybe I should make some large floor tiles

More Tiling

Today everyone was waiting to hear about Hurricane Gustav, 

inbetween watching the news
I spent a few hours tiling more of the bathroom with my tiles

I made about 4000 of them when i was  doing my residency last year at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Its a taken me a long time to get this far, hopefully I'll get them finished in the next few weeks though