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December 1997

The Trouble With Paradise - by Veronica Shelford

Bow, ] don't wart you to get the wrong If there is anyone our chere with email
impression - paradise really is paradise. We access who has not tried Clayart, |
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Mountains, water, trees, oo ales, deer, OLLCTS, potters, sculptors, CeTIMH ter hnicians,
the quiet, the wonderful
all just like you wuld im:
HOWE
here is by crading most of our income for Adrica, Souch and Central America, the

freedom. Which means, if you wame a Philippines and more.

mimnunity its teachers, writers and suppliers, most of

ink. whom come from North Aumerica, bue alsa

WER. The only way we made it fron Britain, Europe, Australia, South

place co live, or hear in the winter, o1

something tO eal, or something to wear you Everything related co clay is questioned,

make it pourself or you trade discussed and tested. There are worderhul
stories about some of the respondencs' early

aut of days in clay. There is const

Yeah, Dknow. Did ‘t that
our system in the ‘60's and ‘70's?
“no. Grae and [ starred our married life and terta sigilatca recipes. Yo

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ant sharing,
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an find our

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building our own place in the woods, and = where co get odd materia

thircy years later we're doing it again out of print poctery books and report on
Senile decay? Bue if pou doen't count new magatines or clay articles in urdikely

maiming yourself with various pa teas publications.
ent your back hauling wood, it
really is, well -PUN, dari. There are threads on kiln-building projects.

Somebody building a taln geo to a certain

and puttin

However, | haven't gor a povting studie yet. point, has a problem, zaps the list and gets
Shelter has to take first priority, and it back answers from people who have built
takes rather more time than you would baling and taught or written books abour

think. [ mean, apart from being 30 years building kilms. In cur own BC backyard

older, we have to keep s
looking ac che view, and ch
seme of my dear fiends/customers stop by = Environment, and were chrearened with

ming and when the Tozan kiln in Nanaimo came

wail takes (are. under fire (!) from the department of the

from time to time to “check cut the clogure foe making Ree much smoke, [ was

lavart had

progress of the house”, which can be asked to see if anyone on C
interpreted as “how long till you fill my
order”, | keep POS SHTLerinyg in my mind Continued on page +

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