Fine Mess Pottery

I unloaded a great firing last week, so I'm super excited to update the shop this time. I've got mugs & sippers, a serving bowl...

  Technically, of course, there's no reason why raku season has to wind down; You can raku all winter, if you want. I don't want! I...

 Just because I haven't done one in a while, and this was an especially nice firing. Note to self: 500 grams soda ash, 600 grams baking ...

 I spent Friday & Saturday glazing and loading; today was firing. After a brief quarrel with one burner (as usual! lol) the firing was u...

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 It’s only been a couple of weeks since the last time I put the stairs out, but I got a tranche of really good mugs from the kiln at Portlan...

Butter dishes are some of my favorite things to make. They are more work, for sure, than something like a bowl or a pitcher, and I probably ...

Spent yesterday photographing pottery, then processing the photos & creating the online listings. This is the first shop update since Ma...

The Cony Street pottery Stairs are out! These have not made as many appearances as they do some summers - fewer class demos & the long d...

June rewards are out of the kiln & WOW are they nice ! I have more rewards than I have patrons at the Air ($25) tier, so the first 3 ne...

 I've been trying intermittently to figure out this underglaze image transfer technique. My transferred image has always degraded badly ...