Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Success and Shame



It is a slow pottery time of year now that the mad rush to get Christmas present projects is done. I unloaded the kiln recently to find some good ...
and some pretty bad. I am excited though to have a place to show the things that are just a shame before I put them in the trash. This piano bowl had loads of potential. It was terribly tedious to carve the eys and the bottom showed signs of cracking early on & I should have given up long long ago, but you see I had already devoted probably hours, so I trudged on carving and hoping. But alas the bottom cracked clean through! A whole lot! I keep thinking I'll make a mosaic with broken pieces of failures, this would be a great pattern to use for that.
Here are some other things I am proud of that came throgh and will be for sale at
www.magnoliapottery.etsy.com shortly!!

In other News, Minnie Mouse has rad taste in pots. We just got back from Disneyworld. This awesome tan vase was in Minnie Mouse's house & it has inspired me! I also got some ideas for carving patterns from "It's a Small world"

2 comments:

  1. I'm so sorry your vase cracked! I'm excited to see your disney vases!

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  2. you are such a good pottery maker. i love this stuff. i totally need to get one so dont be surprised if you see a order from me. esp when you do your disney ones.

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