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I made some ramen bowls. Then I decided I wanted to glaze them to match a mug I had made. And now I’m that guy who makes...
06/01/2025

I made some ramen bowls. Then I decided I wanted to glaze them to match a mug I had made.

And now I’m that guy who makes matching sets of stuff.

I rarely make dinner plates at they’re kind of boring to make. My favorite part of throwing on the wheel is pulling. And...
05/25/2025

I rarely make dinner plates at they’re kind of boring to make. My favorite part of throwing on the wheel is pulling. And with plates it’s…just flattening out a disk, and then a tiny little pull at the end.

But we really needed some new plates in our house. So I made these dinner plates and then decided to carve the edges a bit. A couple of dips in my studios’s Shino glaze and they came out pretty nice.

Maybe I’ll make more plates in the future….

I made this mug ages ago and I forgot about it. It was languishing on a shelf in my bedroom. I picked it up and was DELI...
05/20/2025

I made this mug ages ago and I forgot about it. It was languishing on a shelf in my bedroom. I picked it up and was DELIGHTED to turn it over and see that o had continued the pattern on the bottom.

(Swipe ➡️ to see what I mean)

I need to do that more often. It’s so cute!

It’s been a minute! I’m back in the studio making work. I have grand plans for 2025 (even though it’s halfway over—how t...
05/17/2025

It’s been a minute! I’m back in the studio making work. I have grand plans for 2025 (even though it’s halfway over—how the heck did that happen?!). We’ll see if I achieve them. But it took me awhile to find my way back in mg ceramic studio at .

In the meanwhile, here’s a mug I made that I’ve been greatly enjoying. It’s smaller than I typically make, but it’s ideal for Americanos, Long Blacks, and Cortado drinks. Basically all the espresso drinks I’ve been enjoying lately.

Mug is iron rich stoneware, wheel thrown with a pulled handle. Carved and then glazed with two different glazed and fired to 2285°F.

Swipe ➡️ if you want to see a different angle of the mug, as well as a detail of the reactive glaze and the phase separation occurring (where the different glazes separate out).

Clay: Rod’s Bod
Glaze: Aquamarine Celadon & Synthetic Nuka
Firing: Cone 10 reduction

Oh hi! It’s been a minute. But it’s June! And though I always think I’m going to make some sort of “rainbow” Pride inspi...
06/05/2023

Oh hi! It’s been a minute. But it’s June! And though I always think I’m going to make some sort of “rainbow” Pride inspired piece of ceramic I never do. Because I don’t think ahead.

But instead, here’s a mermaid scale mug. Why mermaid? Because it sounds better than fish scale I guess. And mermaids are q***r adjacent aren’t they? I’m going with that.

Happy Pride Month everyone!

Ceramic specs:
Made: wheel thrown body, pulled handle
Clay: reclaimed mix of Black Mountain, Soldate60 & Rod’s Bod
Glaze: I can’t remember. Ha! I need to take better notes. I think it’s a glaze called Val’s Blue/Black with a wax resist design and then a synthetic Nuka on top.
Firing: Cone 10 reduction (~2350°F/1288°C)

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Of all the items I make in the studio, it’s bowls that I love to make most. They’re fun to throw, and they give me plent...
05/23/2023

Of all the items I make in the studio, it’s bowls that I love to make most. They’re fun to throw, and they give me plenty of space to carve patterns into them.

I love mugs but the smaller surface and handle attachment can sometimes be a not-so-fun challenge. And plates are great to carve but super boring and technical to throw.

But bowls. Bowls are what most folks learn to throw first. And they’re my first love.

I’ve carved this pattern before, with lines reaching across the inside of the bowl. It’s a nice meditative carve, where I don’t need to think as much, and can just be in the moment. I need to do more of that.

Swipe to see details of the bowl.

Specs:
Made: wheel thrown and hand carved
Clay: reclaim of Soldate 60 & Rod’s Bod
Glaze: fake blue celadon with fake Nuka layered over it.
Firing: Cone 10 Reduction (~2350°F/1287°C)

I was suppose to fly down to Southern California this morning for a business trip, but then my flight was canceled and r...
05/08/2023

I was suppose to fly down to Southern California this morning for a business trip, but then my flight was canceled and rebooked for tonight.

I had cushioned an extra day for my trip, so it’s not a big deal, but then I found myself with a bonus day, as I had done all my work that was required to get myself out the door!

So guess I’ll post a mug, because it’s Monday? And that’s a thing?

This is a mug I made a couple of months ago and has quickly become my new go-to mug for coffee. It’s narrower than a lot of other mugs, which means the pour over coffee device fits nicely on top of it.

Fingers crossed my new flight isn’t canceled too!

Specs:
Made: Wheel thrown, handle pulled & attached, hand carved
Clay: Stoneware Soldate 60
Glaze: Fake blue celadon with a layer of fake Nuka glaze
Firing: Cone 10 reduction, about 2360°F/ 1293°C

This large 10-inch bowl is a refire. When it came out of the kiln initially it looked great on the inside, but the outsi...
04/15/2023

This large 10-inch bowl is a refire. When it came out of the kiln initially it looked great on the inside, but the outside had some crawling, which is when the glaze pulls away from the clay, showing bare clay spots.

It’s usually considered a defect, but some folks specifically design crawling glazes for special effect decorative purposes. The crawling that occurred on this bowl was NOT pretty and NOT intentional.

I usually don’t refire my work. But I really wasn’t happy with the outside of this piece, so it kind of would have been a loss otherwise.

Thankfully my friend was able to fit it into her kiln for the refire, as it didn’t make it into the community kiln. I patched up the crawling with some extra glaze, and told her to put it a “cool spot” of the kiln. She did an amazing job. Thank you Etsuko!

(Sidebar: I am terrible at taking notes about my glazes. And this piece had two layers glazes, one of which is a custom glaze I made on my own. So no one in the studio could help me determine the glazes I used. I was 90% sure I knew what the glaze combo was. Thankfully I was correct. Has this changed my habit of taking notes about my glazing? No. Clearly I have not learned my lesson.)

I have plans on making more carved bowls like this, but I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out. You can swipe through to see details.

Specs:
Clay: Soldate 60
Made: wheel thrown on a wheel and hand carved
Firing: Cone 10 Reduction (twice)
Size: 10” wide x 5” tall
Glaze: Fake Blue Celadon with Fake Nuka over it.

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