One of my favourite beverage treats is Orangina. I’m convinced half of my like for it is just because the bottle is that cool shape.

And of course once I started claying I knew that one day I would have to cover one.

Here is a just baked vase and the original bottle -

I first covered the bottle in scrap clay to get the vase shape, then in a thin layer of white mixed with pearl. I sanded it a little and then layed thick slices of cane. I’ll sand the cane a bit and add some tendrils but week 9 was going to go by if I waited!

This also accomplishes something else near and dear to my heart: reusing(of the reduce, reuse, recycle spectrum).

Here the ground is still covered in snow but I’m already dreaming ahead to Spring. We had a sneak preview last week due to a Chinook. A few weeks ago I got started on my Spring run with my colour mixing and rose cane making. This past few days, I finished up the rest of the canes from that batch:

The box of blends – yes, I make blends ahead of time – is echoingly empty and the boxes of little wrapped canes for sale and less neatly kept canes for my own use are bulging.