MORE of the Classic African pics from a traditional yet modern Botswana wedding.

Bridal party just from the church ceremony and back at home for the reception and lunch. About 400 people, no lie.

Classic African gramps, couldn't resist this photo, I thought this guy was absolutely adorable.

Chopping the stew meat. Me and my friends started out at this work station, and we got through about a trash bag full of meat to be cut up into cubes. Lots of meat, nearly two butchered cows.

Brides maids and Grooms men doing a practiced dance to modern African music

enjoy,

catch you later,

Michele

Jeff and Michele Royce
c/o Flying Mission
P.O. Box 1022
Gaborone,
Botswana
Africa

http://www.flyingmission.org/
http://jeffandmichele.blogspot.com

Classic African pics from a traditional yet modern Botswana wedding.

I took a pic of these ladies sitting on the ground in the shade of the house, and they caught me and wanted me to take a better picture. Notice the shawls, head covers, blankets wrapped around there skirts. Classic stuff.

African Grannies

Maatla is a chopping a wild melon, not that sweet but nice and juicy.

Chopping


Maatla and I are pealing the boiled beet root, nice purple hands.

Wedding cakes, aren't they stunning!

More pics coming.

cheers,

M

Jeff and Michele Royce
c/o Flying Mission
P.O. Box 1022
Gaborone,
Botswana
Africa

http://www.flyingmission.org/
http://jeffandmichele.blogspot.com

RAKU FIRING PARTY

Raku Firing Party

This is a special firing technique. First you heat up the pots in the kiln up to 1000 C, until they are red hot. Then you open the kiln door and taking especially long tongs, you take the pot out and quickly take it over to a tub full of saw dust. The saw dust burns, thus starving the glaze of oxygen, as well as cooling the glaze quickly making a lovely crackling affect in the glaze. Literally, the glaze is too small for the pot, so it cracks. Once it cools sufficiently you dip the pot in water and then take a scourer to scrub off the soot. We all smelled like campfire smoke after this little escapade, but it's all in good fun.

I decided to take a picture of some of the projects that I've been working on that haven't been fired yet. We will just hope that they survive firing. I am quite happy with the way my hand molds came out.

cheers,

Michele


Raku pots: Final products

Hand bowl, is something I made that hasn't been fired yet.

Raku firing, we are throwing saw dust over the raku pots to smother them.

Harold on the run...our pottery teacher's husband is the master of the tongs,
so he's taking a pot from the kiln and putting it into the tubs of saw dust.

Harold with tongs, you can see the open kiln.

Butterfly pitcher, is a project I did that is waiting to be fired.

Jeff and Michele Royce
c/o Flying Mission
P.O. Box 1022
Gaborone,
Botswana
Africa

http://www.flyingmission.org/
http://jeffandmichele.blogspot.com