Tag: handmade pottery
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More Experimenting With Mocha Diffusion – This Time On Pottery
My first cup with the teal green mason stains worked the best. Tobacco tea is the acid base.
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Adding Glass To Pottery – A Crackling Glass Effect
How I used glass to give my Christmas ornaments a crackle glass look.
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Keep Calm & Create – Sculpting Animals Calms Me
I like to sculpt animals but haven’t made very many of them. I plan to make more of them starting with this bear getting honey.
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Under-glaze Ceramic Paint Used As Finger Paint
try not to be perfect as mistakes might turn out better.
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Embossed Rolling Pins- Are They Cut Deep Enough?
Have you ever bought something to use of poor quality and were disappointed enough to quit using it? Or did you buy a better quality item that was a success? A few years ago I saw decorative laser-cut rolling pins on Instagram for making cookies. One rolling pin had reindeer and Christmas trees on it.…
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My Journey Of Making Ring Dishes, Soap Dishes and Spoon Rests
My journey to making ring dishes, soap dishes and spoon rest from bags of clay.
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Butterflies – Inspiration For My Pottery
Ceramic butterfly ornaments inspired by the monarch butterflies on my pink flowering shrub.
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Gifted A Truck Load Of Clay
In 2012 a local potter was downsizing. She gave me enough buckets of bone-dry clay to fill the trunk of my Jetta car. I filled the buckets with water, and let them sit for at least a month to saturate the clay. I wedged the clay on plasterboards to realign the molecules making it pliable…
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Hot Delicious Coffee
There is nothing I dislike more then sitting down in my favorite chair with a book or my Bible and a hot cup of coffee. But my first sip of coffee is lukewarm. Do you suffer from this problem too? My stoneware cups do keep my coffee hot longer than store-bought cups. Unfortunately if my…
