Gee, i've had a hard time starting out today post. I have no idea what i'm trying to say first. Lets see, this sake set is named Wholeness & Separation after an album by Halou. The shot glasses names are Tubefed, Separation,
Morsecode, Honeythief, Wholeness.

This picture is sorta makes me think of someone and their kids and the photographer is trying to take a picture but some of the kids are having a hard time settling down.

The bottoms of this set have been craved so that it creates a ste...

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I'm a bit late posting today - i fell asleep taking pictures last night. Right beside my tea cup holding the camera. (Now wouldn't that have been a funny picture)

Todays picture is of a cute little vase (i warned you they would be back). However this one is not super small like the series of them earlier. -Ha i just noticed you can see me really well in the reflection of this vase. I have on a BRIGHT ORANGE shirt :D

This one is named The Flying Ballerina, named after an album i was lisenting ...

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Today's post is a little light to help miu* find her way to feeling better ;)

With this particual vessel i had a hard time trying to decide (hince the name Deciding) what i wanted this to be. I started with a clear idea of possibly a spring box (Example of one of my spring boxes) but then i figured that i didn't leave enough clay at the bottom to do that - spring boxes are made upside-down.

So then i just had a large container - after it was leather hard, i did some slip trailing - and this i...
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So these are in my fish tank. I made these first on the wheel then i added the little flat pieces later. They are named after my beloved fishes - Levis, Guess (these fish looked like they were wearing pants) Frank - he had pretty blue eyes - and Christmas because that fishy was green and a tiny splash of red with a silver streak (a very pretty fish).

Well i needed something in my fish tank and didn't like anything in the stores So i decided to make my own cool thing to put in there. Little b...
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Well this is my dear Splat and she has been shipped out to a new home ;) I will miss her and thought i would bid her a fond farewell. <waving goodbye> take care and be a good little vase - hold those flowers tall (well as tall as you can my small wee little one)
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So the title of this piece is Homeless Comb why you may ask? What it's not obvious? Well, i guess i'll have to tell you then. Well back in the day when my dearest friend Sara go up to the Art building with me on Sundays we would carpool together. So one day as i was getting into her super clean car (it was exceptaional clean this particual day - i felt really specail like we were then suppose to be going on a date or something ;) anyway i set my ceramics stuff down and look in the floor board...

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These are two bowls hand thrown on the wheel and then altered. I love these two bowls. I think the picture looks almost like the shape was about to be a heart. They remind me of how when you love someone you like to get wrapped up in their arms. Their names are Now and Later. I have signed and named them both on the bottom. They are in my little Spot the Pot Shop now too.

I used White Stoneware fired to Cone 10 the colors are an outstanding Orange to Golden Brown, Grey with speckles, Deep Bla...

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I dedicate this photo to John, for it was an idea from him that my first sake set was born. This set is named Opalescent which is the name of a CD by Jon Hopkins (lovely ambiance music if you dig that genre) The names of the shot glasses are Halcyon, Grace, Apparition, Afterlife, and Elegiac which are all names of songs off of that particular CD. For my sets i like to sometimes name them after groupings (not sure if i said that grammatically correct) ~gift

Also my dear friend Kim inspired me ...

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So i decided i needed a break from the vases, don't worry tho i'm sure there will be more in the future. Muhahahaha

This is me and it was one heck of hot sunny day, i decided to have some water out of my mug named Kitty's Delight and well i'm all finished the water by the time this photo is taken (after about the 10th time i got up to reset the camera b/c i couldn't find my remote for the shutter)

I came inside and wasn't tooo crazy about the SUNNY COLOR - it was just sooooooo bright, however...

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This mini vase is a darling burgendy color with a spot of pale pink on the side. The clay is JB Stoneware fired to cone 6 and this one measures up to be 2 1/4" Wide at the bottom 1" Wide at the top and 2 3/4" Tall. ~7

This little gal is holding a blue balloon flower. I really dig on how the top of this one came out and is probably one of my favorite vases i made.

This is listed also in a little store i started up called Spot The Pot - cheers and have a GREAT DAY!

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So i had to revive this flower before my dear Splat (name of the vase) had its photo shoot. As i was deciding where to take pictures of this mini vase i had the flower sitting in a cup of water - just floating along (which then gave me another brilliant idea for a future picture) but back to this one. Soon the flower was all perky again and the image capturing took place.

The colors are a pale pink that changes to an off white with speckles at the bottom a bit of pale yellow also peeks out fr...

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Ok - Like i said these next few days will be pictures of my mini vases! oooo are they not just the cutest? ~7

I finally DID it - i posted this to a little store Spot the Pot Store Geez talk about alot of work... My site is not perfect yet, i'm trying really hard tho.

This one named In The Paper it is a pale pink at the top and a pretty blue hiding a bit of darker blue & brown at the very bottom. The clay is the lovely JB Stoneware and this one only measures up to be 1 3/4" Wide at the bottom ...

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This will be the first of many pictures of my mini vases that i have made. I figured i better take cute little pictures of them now, while there a flowers in bloom to show off in them. Although the August heat is beating the heck out of all the darling little flowers around here.

This vase is titled Any Other Name because i though in its abstract sorta top - it resembles a rose and that made me think of the sweet lines of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

This is a very small cute vase only sta...

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Here's a set of tumblers - they have no official names inscribed in the bottom as most of my work does.

They are filled with another of those frosty drinks i made earlier - YUM!

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This is my sweet little blue and white african violet sitting quietly in a cute little flower pot of which i made. The flower pots name is Dormouse there are actually a set of 3. They all have african violets in them, however the other two have not bloomed yet - even tho their leaves are pretty and green. ~gift

I did not know how much humidity they liked so the other two were just sitting in regular pots & they didn't flower. So after a year, i finally looked up on the net how to solve the pr...

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Heres the inside of the lid - i was very pleased how the spider came out in this Raku firing. Yeah!

Today is looking up, i have just had Christmas, which is what i refer to getting a lot of pieces out of the kiln. Because i wrap them all in newspaper and then i take them and show them to family and friends and when we do this we unwrap them all, and its like Christmas.

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I had a hard time deciding which to post first the inside so you could see the spider or the outside so you could see how cool the crackle glaze looks from the Raku firing looks. Also i was thinking that it could be a bit more fun to see what the whole box looks like.

So as i said earlier this is a little box - i really couldn't decided how to take a photo for this one, to show it off. So i placed it on a one of my many indian silk fabric skirts and let it get ready for its photo shoot. The b...

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This will be sorta a before and after shot of this particular item, which would most likely be used as a little jewlery box. I call them spring boxes b/c i make the texture on top with a spring - of which in this view you don't see. What you are seeing is the inside top of the box and i'm sanding around a spider that i placed inside. Thats why my thumb is all fuzzzzzzy b/c i'm moving.

This piece which is named My First Apartment is called this b/c in my first apartment, i had so many spiders....

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Well this just goes along with how i feel anyway - yes that was a very Eeyore statement, but we all go through rough times. Now would be one of mine.

As some of you may know i was working on a pin-home camera that i made out of clay. There are a series of pictures of I See You - as it was going thru the firing process. As you may have remembered i saved my wheel-thrown pin-hole camera from its first disaster, however when taking it outside to sand the bottom it slipped from my hands & this ti...

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So as i was looking thru my fellow photo friends pictures, i came across a tasty looking drink, soon after leaving the comment i darted into the kitchen and decided to make my own. i had a package of carmel mix in the cabinet (sorta like a hot chocolate mix) anyway i prepared it using the cold directions and added some ice stuck it in the blender then found my tumbler named Fantastic, poured it on in. Then i grabbed the can of whip topping and loaded it up, along with a couple sprinkles of ci...

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Ahhh - Finally - that was alot of work. So this is a finished greenwear pin-hole camera. In case you forgot greenwear is only just what i consider the 1/2 way point.

I thought a final picture was needed to show you what it looks like with the top put on showing off its new button stopper/shutter.

I will be soooooo excited once i get to glaze this and fix up the metal piece that i will insert as my pin-hole. Eeeeeeeh - thats my excited noise.

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Now where was i - um, oh yeah i just squeezed a soft bit of clay into the little hole, then i have a stamp that i made and i press that it onto my piece of really soft clay until i get a nice impression.

Well - this one is almost all put together. I suppose i would say this was at the 1/2 way mark. It still must be bisque fired, sanded, then glazed and the final firing.

Also this little pin-hole camera got a name it's called Blinded By Beauty.

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As for now this pin-hole camera i'm working on is name less. So this is me & i'm working on finishing up another pinhole camera, it took me a long time to finally decide on how to make the hole for the shutter (besides for the piece of metal i have to cut later) Anyway i was trying to think of different ways to cover up the shutter.

So this was my latest idea - to make a small hole and put sorta like a plug into it. I start off by making the hole, then taking really soft clay and rolling it b...

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i decided to make my breakfast a bit more interesting by cutting a little heart out me toast and cooking my egg in that. The plate featured here is named Walking After Midnight fired at cone 10 with red shino and lugna glaze. I totally dig the color that is made when these two overlap which is a dark glittery smokey black with a tiny tint of purple.
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Hi there, its me again this time i'm slip-trailing. This piece which is not named quite yet was a wheel-thrown form. The clay used here is JBS which is a nice brown clay, the slip clay that i'm squeezing on with that little rubber thing (i think its used to clean out babies noses when they are first born) is porcelain. I am spinning it to make it run down the pot, which is upside-down. It should be interesting to see after it's fired b/c the runs will then be going up instead of down once the...
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Ok Finally you get a peak at the top of the pin-hole camera and a wee bit of the side of the bottom.

This is a picture right after i have taken it out of that little rusty bin with a pair of tongs. Its still very hot - oh and before i forget to tell you - i dropped it! AAAAAAH yes i did, i felt it slipping out of my tong grip so i got super super close to the ground so when it finally slipped out of my grip and went TINK onto the hard pavement i was sooooo hoping it didn't put a crack into i...

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Eeeeeeh (thats my excited noise) well the little pin-hole camera is in the rusty trash bin and i have to wait now. This would be a good time to have Supermans x-ray vision so you could see the little pot in there. I have to come back in about an hour and take the lid off to see if the magic worked :-D

At this point the anticipation is killing me. But i go inside and slip glaze another piece while i wait. So i don't have to think bout it.

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Ok - don't go getting disappointed yet, because its not the finished pin-hole camera. I feel i should take you thru the process, heck if i wanted to be super technical i would have started from the very beginning. However, i was not inspired to start taking and posting photos unitl my dear friend cabbagehead started posting.

Ok but back to the process. This barrel contains strips of newspaper that have been shredded by hand, which will be used later as cumbustables. Its waiting on a good mix ...

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Humm - i guess i should update this a little bit & let you know what you are seeing is the top of a kiln. Its a hole about 5 or 6 inches in diameter and it has heat coming out of it. It gets so hot it starts to have a flame come as the kiln heats up after about 2 hours. So i'm standing on the side of the kiln with the camera above my head just clicking away to see if i get a good shot. B/c i don't have anything to stand on. What you see IN THE HOLE that is all red looking is one of my pinhole...
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Hi everyone - sorry i can't wave my hands are full. It's me and i'm working on putting on a textured handle onto my little mug named A Tisket (it has a match named A Tasket). I was thinking about my mom and how she would always sing that song at random moments in my life.

I recently made a pink glaze -shhh don't tell me mom yet tho. Its a surprise since her favorite color is pink, unlike me which my favorite color is actually green. Anyway i'm thinking ahead (which one should always do when p...

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I'm not one to usually paint my nails, however this morning i was looking down past the hem of my green summer dress & thought huh a complimenting color of pink would look cute. So i go and get the dusty box of crazy colored nail polish and sift thru it till i find my amazing pink, that matches my hair. As i'm sitting at the edge of my bed painting my toe nails, i notice how my tea cup named Cut Flowers is sitting there waiting so patiently for me to realize what a darlingly cute moment of gi...
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The one has had a slight name change once just titled Lovely and now called The Lovely Bird or The Bird for short. It all happend because if you see on the side it has a cute little abstract bird that i brushed on in a split of a jiffy. Its a cup that i usually have my morning cup of coffee out of.
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This was the first of my double spouted teapots that came about because i was trying to think of ideas that could possibly get me into grad school. So since i'm such a practical person its hard for me to venture out and make art sometimes for art sake. Even tho i love the idea, i mean i do want to be an art professor, so i embrace the idea of just making art to evoke a feeling. This teapot is named Share the Love because i think from the side the handles give it a heart kind of shape and also...

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This was the last bit of clay left on my wheel after making a dozen or so shot glasses. I knew there was too much left to make another shot glass and not enough for a mug. So then i thought what about a little Japanese vase, and Little Bit was born. So far it has become my favorite vase - for big or little flowers, it holds them all with just the right touch.

i've just noticed something, one may think my favorite color is blue with as many blue pottery items i have posted so far. However this...
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Yes this is a teapot with 2 spouts & 2 handles. I think surprisingly its confortable to hold and pour out of either functioning spout if one so desires. This one was named by my friend Sara. I brought it to work when it was just leather hard and she looks at it and says - wow its sooooo organic looking, i think it looks like something you would find in that movie The Dark Crystal.
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This started out as a nice little tumbler, however for some reason this one had a leak. I have examined it and cannot see what could be causing this leak... so instead of just tossing it, i thought to myself well it will make a cute little planter. So far what i think is oregano at least that is what my dad told me it was when he gave me the plant, loves its' home in this little tumbler. The tumblers name is Dash Seven and since it the Oregano's home i figure its only fitting to change the na...

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This is a little mug i made when i had been away from doing my ceramics for a couple of years. The name of the mug is Tiger... i try to name all of my ceramic pieces. The name usually reflects what is going on around me at the time or something that has happened and not necessarily what the piece looks like.

I think this one got the name Tiger because there was a golf tournament on nearby & i heard the name.

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Yesterday i was sanding a piece of metal (soda pop can) to use as the pinhole for the NEW camera i'm making. Well, thats about as far as i got - because as my other name *Side Track Sally* took over. Who knows how i ended up with material spread out all bout the floor & was cutting into a skirt then, looking at bills, GETTING the crap scared out of me from my bank sending a letter to me that my card had been compromised? WHAT? Thats not cool.... Id be getting a new card w/a new pin - make sur...

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Hi, its me in this capture i'm finishing up the pin-hole camera ;D i am placing black foam inside the lid to make a nice and snug fit. The pin-hole camera is glazed in my pinky's pink with a bit of plum squiggles just sitting there to the left her name is Little Wings.

Finally i had all the supplies i needed to get that show on the road. I even made up a small tube pinhole viewing thingy (not sure what to call it) But the reason i made that was so i could test out the size pinhole i would ne...

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This is me and i'm loading film into my pinhole camera. Trying to remember to stay still for nearly a 45 seconds feels like such a long time when listening to hear the shutter close.

Before I had a chance to use this camera I had to go to several shops to try and find chemicals that I needed to develop the film and who knew that even though i live in the capitol of VA that the camera shops around here wouldn't have everything i needed... oh like matte paper film, Dev, Fix, SB... i mean really...

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Ok Finally you get a peak at the top of the pin-hole camera and a wee bit of the side of the bottom.

This is a picture right after i have taken it out of that little rusty bin with a pair of tongs. Its still very hot - oh and before i forget to tell you - i dropped it! AAAAAAH yes i did, i felt it slipping out of my tong grip so i got super super close to the ground so when it finally slipped out of my grip and went TINK onto the hard pavement i was sooooo hoping it didn't put a crack into i...

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Ahhh - Finally - that was alot of work. So this is a finished greenwear pin-hole camera. In case you forgot greenwear is only just what i consider the 1/2 way point.

I thought a final picture was needed to show you what it looks like with the top put on showing off its new button stopper/shutter.

I will be soooooo excited once i get to glaze this and fix up the metal piece that i will insert as my pin-hole. Eeeeeeeh - thats my excited noise.

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Now where was i - um, oh yeah i just squeezed a soft bit of clay into the little hole, then i have a stamp that i made and i press that it onto my piece of really soft clay until i get a nice impression.

Well - this one is almost all put together. I suppose i would say this was at the 1/2 way mark. It still must be bisque fired, sanded, then glazed and the final firing.

Also this little pin-hole camera got a name it's called Blinded By Beauty.

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As for now this pinhole camera i'm working on is name less. So this is me & i'm working on finishing up another pinhole camera, it took me a long time to finally decide on how to make the hole for the shutter (besides for the piece of metal i have to cut later) Anyway i was trying to think of different ways to cover up the shutter.

So this was my latest idea - to make a small hole and put sorta like a plug into it. I start off by making the hole, then taking really soft clay and rolling it b...

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Here you see the last bit of things i needed to finish up my clay pin-hole camera. Lets see theres a cork with a needle in it, rubber cement, black foam, black duct tape, scissors, and of course a sheet of newspaper to spread all this stuff out on.

Once i got into it, doing the last bit really didn't take that long and was not really that hard. I would say the longest part was drilling the hole and sanding the piece of metal from the soda can was the most time consuming.

So now i need some ot...

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This was a 3 hour exposure on Polaroid film. Thats a long time but I like the mystery of it. This is my tree. I made my tree out of copper wire and it has a copper pole in the middle where a strand of rope lights go up. It has tinsel wrapped about the copper wire that is spiraling down to the floor.
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This little box was made because I had some leftover clay all rolled out and my friend Sara was nearby. I asked her if she wanted to see how i made the boxes with the little pointed feet. She excitedly said yes!

The lid i cut a leaf shape and bent up the ends - i thought it would be most interesting. Not very practical for taking around in a bag - but who would want to hide this cute little camera? Oh an yes, this was made into a pinhole camera.

Its super sunny out today!
Would be good for ...

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