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Porcelain botanical and bone inspired creations lovingly handmade in New Orleans, Louisiana ✨🌱💐🌹🥀💀🕊️🪦✨ Upcoming Events: 2/26-3/2 The Tigermen Den 3/9 New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
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04 bisque -> ^6 How they shrink! The struggle I have with charms is that I feel like I need at least 100 to make a good display. How I love making them! Here’s the latest batch for my upcoming Mardi Gras events.

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Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day. Day 15 - Porcelain broadleaf maple dish with gold luster, 2018 #porcelain #ceramics #weirdclay #nolaartist #botanicalart #botanicalillustration #nature #botanicalimpression #neworleans

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Second ornate wall pocket of the year. I’m about to make a larger version of this as a custom commission for a friend who wants to be able to have a live plant inside the pocket. I’m excited to go even bigger! #mementomori #wallpocket #handbuiltceramics #wallart #porcelain #weirdclay #ceramics

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Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day. Day 14 - Porcelain deer skull impression dishes, 2018. Do y’all think I should bring these back? #deerskull #porcelain #weirdclay #ceramics #20pots #handbuilding #neworleansartist #nola #clayart #taxidermy #bones #skull

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Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day. Day 13 - Stoneware skull tea cup, made pre pandemic. #handbuiltmug #teacup #mementomori #skullart #weirdclay #ceramics #pottery #neworleans #handbuiltceramics

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Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day. Day 12 - Now for something lighter! Botanical impression dishes from 2024 and my booth display for Crafty Wonderland in PDX last year. Fern, daisy & forget-me-not. #botanicalart #porcelain #handbuilding #botanical #ceramics #clayart

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Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day. Day 11 - First attempt at lidded vessels, 2023. I’d just been turned down for production assistant at a ceramic urn business, I was bummed! The lids needed work but this was my first go at a keepsake urn. #deathpositive #urn #porcelain

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Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day for 20 days Day 10 - Sgraffito poppy tile, 2020. My mom bought this piece from my shop the moment I listed it online. I love that she has it, because I get to see it from time to time. #botanicalart #porcelain #ceramics #sgraffito

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The slab built fruit of my labor today! Crypt/mausoleum/niche vase in porcelain. #mausoleum #crypt #niche #deathpositive #porcelain #ceramics #weirdclay #skullart #nolaclay #neworleans

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

The harvest (finished pieces) from Friday. I’m going to try to make another platter or plates this week, and keep the ball rolling on mini vases. My goal is to have a good batch at the Pharmacy Museum next month! #porcelain #mementomori #skullart #nola #neworleans #handbuilding #weirdclay #ceramics

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Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day for 20 days Day 9 - Finished wall pocket, for those following along! The first I’ve done with this particular flower and scroll motif. Alligator MC 299 Porcelain, cone 5. #weirdclay #handbuiltclay #ceramics #porcelain #nola #mementomori

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Every day I'm making my pots and feeling so good in the studio, and then checking the news and feeling absolutely horrified, then resuming my day...enjoying chats and jokes with my kids, trying not to show them the depths of my growing existential dread. Surreal. Ok more pottery pics🫠

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Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day for 20 days Day 8 - Skull platter! I sculpted this in 2020, but only finished it last spring because I didn’t have access to a large kiln. I have a similar one in the works at clay center of NOLA! #skullart #ceramics #art #mementomori

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Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day for 20 days Day 7 - Porcelain skull moths with gold luster from years past. Similar to the evil eye moths posted earlier in this challenge, but with gold! #mementomori #deathsheadmoth #porcelain #ceramics #neworleans #nolaart

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I love slab roller, I love heat gun, I love @claycenternola.bsky.social! Here’s some snippets from my day yesterday at the clay center making a skull-y platter. Excited to see it finished. #mementomori #skullart #porcelain #ceramics #nolaartist #neworleans #weirdclay

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Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day for 20 days Day 6 - 2023 holiday wall pocket batch. I’m currently working on another grouping of similar pieces and look forward to sharing them with y’all! #mementomori #coffin #skullart #skullpture #neworleansartist #ceramics #nola

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Some more of my functional work. Love making these witchy trays

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Progress on some vases at the clay center yesterday! Firing at a group studio feels like having a saving account, but for ceramics instead of money. In my little kiln at home I can push through production quickly but this is nice for markets a little farther out - like the Pharmacy Museum in March!

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Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day for 20 days Day 5 - I’ve been slacking! I made this piece in 2018 after a trip to Venice, inspired by a painting on a crypt wall. #mementomori #venice #porcelain #skeletonart #skullpture #ceramics #deathpositive #neworleans

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Monitoring a very empty studio at Clay Center of New Orleans today. It’s slab time

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been struggling to pick current content to post, so here’s little Faith (me) wearing some of her early creations. I’m vending at the NOLA Jazz Museum tomorrow from 3-7pm for St. Brigid’s Day. Come say hi! I’ll have fresh pieces ✨

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