Fine Mess Pottery

 I've been enjoying a new (to me) decorating technique: a heavy slip applications textured by hand. For some shapes this means throwing ...

  The cat dish fundraiser was the most successful yet! We raised enough to sponsor four adoptable cats from the Kennebec Valley Humane Socie...

ETA: In just  few short hours, these sold out! We're going to be sponsoring THREE adoptable kitties. I'll share next week once I hav...

  I didn't mean for this to be the week of tools; it just shook out that way. It started in one of my classes, when a student brought in...

  I've been doing demos for my class of a fun & spontaneous way to work with trailing slip, by applying it directly by hand. The vas...

I unloaded the soda kiln this morning. ( live on youtube! in a slightly less disastrous event than the first time I tried that. If you watc...

I loaded the glaze kiln last night, placing the last cone pack around 9 pm. The firing is humming along; the kiln was in reduction by 9 am. ...

 ...Patreon.  The weekly (free!) photo dump post is up. Thanks for reading! If you feel like subscribing - even for free - that's helpf...

Today will be the last day of wetwork for this cycle...I'll try to get a live wheelcam event going on Patreon , unless I can't get o...

 It's a throwing week - my favorite! Although I am kind of like a dog that way, every week is my favorite. Tonight I hosted - if you wan...

One Weird Trick is a recurring feature at my Patreon page, usually for paid subscribers; this particular trick is so useful I wanted to make...

 Inspired by the annual Fat Bear contest at Katmai National Park, I made chubby bears with my handbuilding class on Monday.  These will be s...