Fine Mess Pottery

 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...

    After a couple of false starts - including wearing the thing backwards , generating a long, close-up video of the top of my head - I'...

 Guess what I am spending my afternoon doing? Did you say, Rebuilding your entire Outlook contact list? You're right! I am rebuilding m...