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Ceramics teacher, kayaker, gardener, c.1825 house maintenance, cats, aging in place
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Use of scrap: 3 min, brings in what a carefully made mug does. It is VERY important that you only display one so no one thinks “I will come back for one later”. Customers like the get it before it’s gone & one-of-a-kind feeling, and buy it as a gift for that relative who gardens. #pottery #ceramics

#pottery #ceramics Do you have kiln monsters breaking your pots too? Share them!

Kiln monsters breaking up your pots too? Show us!

Number 20!! #20pots #pottery #ceramics Textured the outside of a thick cylinder by pulling plugs out of it with different size straws, thrown from the inside, and obsessive compulsive needle poking.

Day 19 of #20pots in 20 days. This friendly little mug is designed to look pretty to the person sitting across the table from you in the morning. #pottery #ceramics

Making DEI gnomes. Day 18 of 20 pots in 20 days #20pots #pottery #ceramics

A one-of-a-kind bespoke house number, echoing the house’s siding and the 1920’s style (house’s age). Day 17 of 20 pots. #20pots #ceramics #pottery

Day 16 of 20 pots in 20 days. Basset, the Egyptian cat goddess, can guard the ashes of your beloved pet, her collar, and her favorite toys. #20pots #ceramics #pottery

Day 15 of 20 pots in 20 days Anubis, a funeral urn for your pet’s ashes, collar, fav toys. #20pots #ceramics #pottery

Day 14 of 20 pots in 20 days It’s an obvious glaze failure, but somehow suits the style of the piece. Gives it an aged look. The kiln gods are laughing! #20pots #ceramics #pottery

Day 13 of 20 pots in 20 days. Somehow brushing a bit of black iron oxide on porcelain made the body come out looking like marble. I have never been able to reproduce it. #20pots #pottery #ceramics

Has anyone tried this? The glaze on the top third was terrible after a cone 10 firing. So I put raku on over that part. Now I have watertight raku! Day 12 of 20 pots in 20 days #20days #ceramics #pottery

Day 11 of 20 pots for 20 days. #20pots #pottery #ceramics

Day 10 of 20 pots in 20 days #20pots #ceremics #pottery

Day 9 of 20 pots in 20 days. Raku is perfect for storing potatoes. It is dark and it breathes. Can even fit three large russets in this! #ceramics #20pots #pottery

Day 8of 20 pots in 20 days #20pots #ceramics #pottery A pair of raku beauties

Day 7 of 20 pots in 20 days #20pots #ceramics #pottery

Day 6 of 20 pots in 20 days #20pots #pottery #ceramics

Day 5 of 20 pots #pottery #ceramics #20pots

Day 4 of 20 pots #20pots #pottery #ceramics

One pot per day for 20 days. Day 3 #20pots #ceramics #pottery

#20pots #pottery #ceramics Day two of one pot a day for 20 days. This will be a lamp. And yes, I have been to Madagascar and some chameleons really are this color and they really curl their tails!

One pot per day for 20 days. Day 1 #20pots #pottery #ceramics