Fine Mess Pottery

Though I have already successfully fired a bisque under the newly repaired arch, it hardly counts as a test. I could bisque in a trash can, ...

The flowers of mid-June make the best bouquets! The enormous raspberry heads of peony, the delicate deep purple shapes of Siberian Iris, t...

Testing a new flashing slip recipe - I kind of just made it up, with crowdsourced suggestions. Let's do it. Results to follow next week....

OMG I think this is going to work...sort of, anyway. I propped the arch for on four jackposts, high enough to lift the weight of the ar...

That's what I keep telling myself, but I'm not sure I 100% believe it.  Like a lot of repairs, the kiln has to get worse before it...

Photo by Monica Hurley Lawson My husband & I recently traveled to his home state of Massachusetts. His mother is in the hospital rec...

Did I mention I hate kiln building in all its forms? But I do love me some feeling of accomplishment. I've had to break down the task ...

I build my kiln in 2010; not the first kiln I've ever built, but the first one that I've been the brains of the operation. I love ev...

Hello, friends! Long time no post...not that I didn't want to! My laptop conked out at the least convenient time, just a week before the...

Remember this piece? I posted it a couple of weeks ago when it was leatherhard - I was playing around with some colorants in porcelain ...

Chillin' indeed; though the calendar says it's mid-April, the weather says it's more like the 109th of January. Nevertheless any...

A couple of weeks ago I ran a little fundraiser to sponsor the adoption fee of a cat at the Kennebec Valley Humane Society . That cat - Harl...