Kiln Creations

10/12/2026

💡 **DID YOU KNOW?**

Your pottery goes into the kiln wearing **tiny little shoes.**

Sort of. 😂

They're called **stilts**, and they're the reason we can glaze all the way around—and underneath—many of the pieces you paint at Kiln Creations.

Glaze melts during firing, so if your freshly glazed pottery sat directly on the kiln shelf, it could fuse itself right to it.

Instead, we carefully balance pieces on little ceramic or metal stilts with tiny points that keep the glazed surface off the shelf.

After firing, we remove the stilts and smooth those teeny contact points on the bottom of your piece.

So those **three or four tiny marks** you sometimes notice underneath your finished pottery?

That's where it stood while spending several hours in a **1,800°+ kiln.** 🔥

Tiny stilts.

Thousands of degrees.

Hundreds of pieces of pottery.

**And yes, loading a kiln sometimes feels exactly like an extremely high-stakes game of Tetris.** 😂

10/11/2026

Your holiday party options are:

A) Everyone stands around making small talk.

B) Someone schedules an activity nobody asked for.

C) Everyone gets a piece of pottery, a table full of paint and permission to become bizarrely competitive about Christmas mugs.

We're partial to C.

🎄 Holiday group dates are booking now.

Company parties, friend groups, family gatherings, client events—we love the big ones.

Get yours on the calendar before December becomes December.

10/11/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/1C2qugjGmP/ Hi guys! The kiln family is on a road trip and I just met the owner of this non profit. It would be really cool if we could all go like their page 💜💜💜💜

Sweet Pea House is a working on building domestic violence shelter in Douglas County Missouri but can give to go bags and meet to help make a plan to be safe.

10/11/2026

💡 DID YOU KNOW?

Your clay piece gets smaller.

Like... noticeably smaller.

From the moment we make something out of wet clay, it begins losing water and shrinking as it dries.

Then it goes into the kiln and shrinks again.

So when we're making mugs, bowls, ornaments, handprints and all the other things that come out of our clay room, we have to account for the fact that the finished ceramic piece won't be the same size as the squishy one we started with.

Which is also why your child's clay handprint will already be a little smaller than their actual hand by the time you get it back.

🥹 As if we needed another reason for those things to make us emotional.

Come play with clay sometime.

We'll make it bigger than you need...

and let fire handle the rest. 🔥🏺

10/11/2026

Please make my dreams come true!

10/11/2026

We're here 11-6 today for walk in painting and we have wheels at 3! How dirty will you get today??

10/11/2026

Here's an underrated thing about pottery for groups:

Nobody has to be good at it. Your wildly artistic coworker can spend two hours painting an elaborate woodland scene. Dave can paint his mug blue. Both people had a good time.

THAT is why creative events work so well for mixed groups.

Everybody gets to participate at their own level—and everybody leaves with something.

Planning a holiday party or big gathering? Let's make something together.

10/10/2026

💡 DID YOU KNOW?

Clay has a memory.

And unfortunately, it remembers your crimes. 😂

If clay gets bent, stretched or stressed while we're working with it, sometimes it tries to move back toward that shape when it's drying or firing.

That's one reason a piece that looked perfectly straight when it went onto the shelf can occasionally come out of the kiln with a little warp.

Clay is basically saying:

“Oh, you thought we were over what happened three days ago?”

We weren't.

Working with clay is part art, part science, and part negotiating with a material that has its own plans.

Want to experience the drama personally?

Come take a clay class or hop on the pottery wheel with us. 🏺

10/10/2026

Facebook does not show you everything we post.

We know. Rude. So we have a backup plan.

📧 Our email list.

It's where we send upcoming events, new classes, studio news, holiday happenings and whatever creative nonsense we're currently cooking up.

No algorithm deciding you apparently needed 14 videos of raccoons instead.

Get on the list and let us come directly to you.

10/10/2026

We're changing the date to give you time to sign up! Come with us!!