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Cupcake Stands
"When you look at a cupcake, you've got to smile." - Ann Byrn
Potter’s Tool Kit – Secondary Tools
Acquiring tools will not make better pots - practicing with them will. Every potter has a set of core tools - tools that she won’t leave home without. Then there are the secondary tools - tools that are used for more specialized purposes. Although I don’t use these...
More Glaze Notes
Although we have several glaze combinations that work well together, I am not done testing glazes. I want to push the glazes that I know work well together to make my pots even more interesting. I am experimenting with texture and ways to define space on a pot. ...
Know Thy Glazes
The focus of 2010 was to work out some glaze combinations that would enhance the functional pottery that we love to make. In order to accomplish that, we made hundreds of small bowls. (I had been making test tiles but after I had accumulated 2 buckets of unusable...
Self Sabotage
"Just imagine how much you'd get done... if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work." - Seth Godin I can always find reasons why I don’t do things. Truthfully, they aren’t reasons, just excuses. For instance, last Sunday, I didn’t make any pots; I didn’t...
A Potter’s Most Challenging Request
I love mugs and I love making mugs – they are probably my favorite pots to make. However, I shudder with anxiety when some one wants to replace a beloved but broken mug. As a potter, I get a lot of requests for mugs. But, when some one is looking to replace a mug,...