Fine Mess Pottery

You may have read about my home state lately; we were the latest site of that very American phenomenon, the mass shooting. In Maine's ca...

My October firing is in the books!  After the last firing, during which my sprayer failed, necessitating a frantic drive around town to find...

 Does this happen to you? You've got important stuff to do - in my case a firing deadline to meet - when an idea pops into your brain an...

The aftermath of a firing: grinding & polishing bottoms, sorting, pricing, packing, & delivering ware, and photographing pots for th...

Ooo looks pretty good! Pretty good indeed! Even in the back! A few pieces from the firing What a relief! After what I started referring to a...

What's inside?? I hate not knowing  Man, I was not even lying when I called this the Murphy's Law firing! Let's have a brief re...

​ Details matter! The image is of the gap between the kiln shelf & the bottom of the pot, which is raised up by three wads of high-refra...

Weirdly, I had a Facebook post go mini-viral this week: more than 3/4s of a million views, 23k likes, hundreds of comments. It was just an o...

 I missed this opening, but the show is still up for the rest of the month. Ingrid is a friend - I met her when I worked at Watershed - and ...

If you do the socials at all, I'm sure you've hear of the slow, unscheduled disassembly of twitter as its new owner, Elon Musk, met...

  Next week I'll have a video of the trimming and decorating process!  If you found this post valuable, toss a coin to your witcher po...