Cold Mountain Ceramics

Cold Mountain Ceramics Small batch, nature inspired ceramic wares for your kitchen and home.

Flower Pop & Carrot Patch mugs are now listed for pre-order! But if you want one sooner come see us at or 🫶🏻
05/22/2026

Flower Pop & Carrot Patch mugs are now listed for pre-order!
But if you want one sooner come see us at or 🫶🏻

I don’t know about you but some fresh squeezed lemonade out of a hand crafted woodgrain ceramic pitcher with a real twis...
05/11/2026

I don’t know about you but some fresh squeezed lemonade out of a hand crafted woodgrain ceramic pitcher with a real twisty stick handle sounds about perfect right now.

A neat parallel between my mom’s garden tool shed here and this mug is that they’re both washed in red iron oxide. A tra...
05/08/2026

A neat parallel between my mom’s garden tool shed here and this mug is that they’re both washed in red iron oxide.

A traditional method of preserving the wood on farm buildings is to mix a sealant oil with iron oxide to prevent rot. That’s why you see a lot of red barns!

I use red iron oxide for a purely decorative reason as it makes the woodgrain carving stand out more. It didn’t hit me until after I took this photo that the two crafts used the same common ingredient & I thought that was cool.

Spring in the Blue Ridge Mountains is a wonderful place to be. 💐
05/04/2026

Spring in the Blue Ridge Mountains is a wonderful place to be. 💐

Finally found the right twisty stick at the river for this teapot. It’ll be coming with me to in June!
04/29/2026

Finally found the right twisty stick at the river for this teapot. It’ll be coming with me to in June!

04/25/2026

Finished ✨
She’ll get a proper photoshoot by the river soon but I couldn’t wait to share. I’m very happy with simple red iron oxide wash and lush green glaze.
I think she’ll stay in my garden, forever gazing at the moon.

Potters, listen! Next week on May 1st these overglaze decal sheets will be released to you - but until then I need your ...
04/24/2026

Potters, listen! Next week on May 1st these overglaze decal sheets will be released to you - but until then I need your help spreading the word about them!

If you can please:
💛 Tell me below which sheet is your favorite (I’m torn between the fruit and the pinecones, personally).
👋🏻 Tag a potter friend who might also enjoy these!

If you help me, I will give five random folks a complementary sheet!
Never played with overglaze decals? It’s super simple. They are transferred to an already glaze-fired piece via water slide paper and fired a third time to about 1600° where the decal becomes a permanent part of the vessel. Don’t worry I’ll post a demo video because I’m a visual learner too!

I genuinely cannot wait to see how you use these to elevate your pots!
Thanks, ya’ll!

Look, Ma, I’m in a magazine!!! AHH!! is featuring the Collective for May’s edition!That green mug came home with me and...
04/17/2026

Look, Ma, I’m in a magazine!!! AHH!! is featuring the Collective for May’s edition!

That green mug came home with me and it’s the one I use every single morning for coffee while getting the boys ready for school - so proud it got to be front and center!

What a dream getting to do what I love for a living.

I fudged up and over fired a whole kiln full of my pieces and 3 other studio members pieces. I was so proud of all the w...
04/04/2026

I fudged up and over fired a whole kiln full of my pieces and 3 other studio members pieces. I was so proud of all the work I had gotten done recently only for the Kiln Gods to humble me hard. Such a silly mistake placing the wrong cone in the kiln sitter and now I gotta remake it all.

Yes, glazing these is still possible - but much harder and not worth the effort for some of the designs. Some things I might salvage. Or I might just chuck them at a wall to therapize these big feelings.

#😑

Two decal tests came out perfect! (Bonus image of sweet Miss Gerty chillin in the rose bushes) I cannot contain my excit...
03/29/2026

Two decal tests came out perfect! (Bonus image of sweet Miss Gerty chillin in the rose bushes) I cannot contain my excitement to share this project with ya’ll. Giddy is an understatement. My old studio assistant and I had been talking about how to make this happen for YEARS. Overglaze decals are so simple to use and are such fun elements to add to the creative toolboxes of ceramic artists. Possibilities are limitless - I can take scans of handwriting, photographs, your child’s artwork, company logos, your own sketchbook drawings and turn them in to permanent, scratch resistant, food & dishwasher safe images for ceramic wares.

Potters: Keep an eye out for a decal sheet release May 1st!

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