06/01/2026
Sometimes I listen to podcasts while I work, or music, sometimes a tv show. Lots of times it’s silent and I let my mind wander 🧚💕 so here’s me, wandering mind, grounded body, grateful heart, and present soul.
Once thrown, and dried to leather hard, every single mug gets flipped upside down and re-centered on the wheel. Every. Single. One. This process allows you to take away excess clay and add a foot. It’s tedious && time consuming. :) I absolutely love it. I find this part of the pottery process to be extremely mesmerizing, and soothing. Buttt there are days when it is also extremely humbling and torturous lol like when the clay body isn’t quite right and doesn’t want to trim smoothly, or days where nothing is right and you end up trimming through the bottom on multiple mugs. Some days it be like that. Some days it’s easy, and chill && you feel like a million bucks after. Accomplished and calm.
I’ve taught countless beginner pottery classes and I have spent hours trimming pieces of student work that is a little wonky donkey and wobbly - so much time training my hands and body to feel into the imperfections, where I’ve learned to work with them, around them & through them. I’ve gotten really confident in trimming over the years bc of how much work I have trimmed of the students I’ve taught and the work of my own.
This medium never ceases to amaze me - how much it allows me to reconnect to my body. The way it moves. The way it feels. The minor adjustments I have to intuitively feel into and make throughout every step of the ceramic process. Working with clay truly is such a gift and I’m so grateful for the time it grants me to sink in and reclaim my own attention and time, time and time again.
