Fine Mess Pottery

Maine Craft Weekend is coming up, October 5 & 6th! Here at FIne Mess Pottery I am celebrating with my annual Pots by the Pound Sale. ...

Amaco Velvet underglaze on Waxy White Glaze (recipe below), on Laguna's 900 claybody Students are like those fabled bumblebees that ...

As anyone who lives in an old house knows, they always need something . Some needs are immediate: leaky roof! Furnace quit! Others wait un...

Come by, local peeps, and grab your bargains!

It was raku week at Portland Pottery, at least in my classes. I'd actually been planning these firings for a few weeks, but I always bui...

I have some students who are exclusively slab builders, so I have been searching recently for new techniques to show them. Found this one ...

A few folks have contacted me to let me know that some older posts here redirect to some widget-server thingy. I just noticed it myself, yes...

My perennial garden is a source of recurring joy for me. Crocuses popping in March remind me that the drear Maine winter will, eventually, e...

I never take custom orders. I find them very stressful, and as a result put off starting the project until it looms over my head longer th...

I don't know if I've ever done an art fair in a more beautiful location that Belfast, Maine. It was insufferably hot yesterday, so...

If I didn't clarify before, my last firing was only a Murphy's Law firing if Murphy's Law was about screw-ups. Everything that...

Wow, it's July already, and only a few days away from Belfast Arts in the Park. I'll be in Booth 111, with the hopefully-wonderful p...