Posted in Ceramics, Photography, Pottery on October 4, 2012| 2 Comments »
If you follow our blog you’ve noticed most of our work is done in earthenware. We’ve been making more and more stoneware as of late and here is our latest batch fresh and toasty from the kiln. We were a bit nervous firing lids on the lidded jars having never fired them on the jars before. Adding alumina hydrate to wax resist is a stroke of genius (thanks Hsin-Chuen Lin for the tip).
Posted in Ceramics, Kitchen, Photography, Pottery on September 19, 2012| 3 Comments »
Our Dangerously Spiky Mugs.
When Angi made the first of our Spiky mugs as a Christmas gift for her brother Tony, we didn’t foresee how popular they would become. We just can’t make enough of them. We have them listed as made to order items on Etsy, our Big Cartel store, and Copius. Our goal has been to make enough to get ahead so we can have some ready to ship mugs for sale but we haven’t manage to yet. Just a few extras here and there. Having missed out on too many sales last year because of the 6 week MTO wait, it’s time to go into major production mode so we’re ready for the holidays. Google search “Dangerously Spiky Mugs” or just “Spiky Mugs” and you’ll get tons of hits (still can’t believe it). We would like to thank thisiswhyimbroke.com for thousands of hits.
We loaded another batch of 48 of our regular sized Spiky mugs in the bisque kiln today.
It’s a very painstakingly slow process to get as many as possible loaded without breaking off any spikes.
We’ve gotten orders from all over the world for these mugs with the latest coming today from Estonia. The country with the most orders is Australia.
Posted in Ceramics, Photography, Pottery on September 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Ceramics, Kitchen, Photography, Pottery on August 14, 2012| Leave a Comment »
We posted a while back some photos of a custom dinnerware request in the just thrown and leather hard stage.
They just came out of the kiln.
The goblets came out great for our first attempts. We threw them in two parts. The cup portion off hump then the base from the rest of the clay, Hit the base with the heat gun and placed the cup on the base.
These are all made with Laguna B-Mix 5 and fired to cone ^5.5.
Posted in Ceramics, Kitchen, Photography, Pottery on August 2, 2012| 1 Comment »
Posted in Ceramics, Pottery on July 24, 2012| 1 Comment »
Angi was watching me throw a few jars and mentioned just how little I look down at the wheel head. I have a rather large mirror on a stand that I tend to watch my hands with while I throw. I wanted to see how much I rely on the mirror so we shot a video.
I’m rather shocked at just how little I’m directly looking at my hands. Even when I’m using the “metal rib of death” (thanks Tim See) I seem to be watching myself with the mirror. Must think myself a hair dresser.
Posted in Ceramics, Kitchen, Pottery on July 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »
This is one way to keep Paula Dean out of your butter.
We had a request from an Etsy customer who loves our Spiky mugs to make her a Dangerously Spiky butter dish. Angi ran with the idea and designed and created these spectacular butter dishes.
The butter dish gets the Dangerously Spiky treatment.
The butter dish got the Dottie treatment too.
All made with Laguna B-mix 5
Posted in Ceramics, Kitchen, Photography, Pottery on July 9, 2012| 2 Comments »
We were asked to create some dinnerware for an Etsy customer. She wanted some flat plates with a small rolled rim, some low bowls with a rolled rim and some goblets. Well we’ve never even tried to make goblets but we didn’t let that stop us.
These are thrown with B-mix 5. Took 1-1/4 lbs of clay and threw the cup off the hump and set it aside then shaped the stem with the clay that was left and placed the cup back on the stem.
One of my favs
This was the first one
Here are the plates.
And the bowls.
Posted in Ceramics, Pottery on July 7, 2012| 3 Comments »
Posted in Ceramics, Photography, Pottery on July 2, 2012| 1 Comment »
We do a lot of made to order work. A LOT.
Every once in a while we get a request that lets us try something new. Like the teapots we finally got to create. We’ve wanted to make one or many for a long time but just hadn’t had the time. Well a customer request means time is now available.
Recently we had a request for some customized Dangerously Spiky Mugs. These are for a group of “Gamers” that have been buddies for decades and wanted some cool mugs for when they are hanging out. They wanted their nicknames stamped in the handles and we thought the gun metal black glaze we use on the mugs would fill in the lettering. So we proposed using the interior color on the handles. They said go for it, we did and they came out awesome.
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