Jacquie Blondin

In this bisque batch: painter’s palettes, test pieces and cheese boards. What’s in your kiln?

Yes but I don’t think I will let it go. I’m definitely trying to curb my time in it.

Thank you Annette! 🥰

Thank you Annette! ❤️🥰❤️

I like bottom left the best. Brushstrokes have the most flow and artist presence imo

Thank you! Yes Very Exciting!!!

Here’s a sneak peek inside my Ceramics Monthly - Tips and Tools article “Cardboard Slump Mold.” February 2025.

It breaks down the tools and steps you’ll need to make your own custom slump mold.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Exciting news! My first article, Cardboard Slump Mold, is featured in Ceramics Monthly!
The step-by-step guide helps Potters create custom moulds with simple materials. Grateful for the opportunity!

Have you used cardboard in your studio? Let’s chat 👇

#CeramicMonthly #PotteryTips #ClayCommunity.

I just looked it up and the term for seeing imagery in random places or things like clouds or wallpaper is pareidolia.

It’s a special treat when that happens. Occasionally I see animals or creatures in patterns and have to immediately draw them out on paper, so I don’t forget them.

Yahoo, I was so thrilled for all of the teachers who had a snow day!

Vision board collage with nine playing card sized collages housed in a clear trading card sleeve. The year 2025 and word for the year “purpose” are on the centre card. There’s also a plant growing up and touching each of the nine cards. The remaining eight cards each has a centralized circle and symbols representing different goals, such as a paintbrush and palette, a stack of bowls representing a fundraiser, a group representing family, math symbols representing financial acumen, three people representing community, Internet symbol representing my desire to teach online, a megaphone to represent broadcasting to different audiences, and a person walking to remind myself to go on a walk every day.

I just finished making this vision board collage that I meant to make at the beginning of the new year - better late than never! To see what it’s all about check out the alt text.

Thank you Angela - they were a joy to make - nostalgia and memory vs reality.

Thank you John - fun to research and more fun to build.

I just worked 10 hrs straight: arrived early to learn the ropes at a new pottery studio, taught 3 rounds of 2.5 hour sessions - 10 peeps -30 min turnover. All beginner wheel - 1 session drop in. I haven’t worked that hard in ages! It was kinda like the first day of school for everybody involved.

I’ll have to look those up. Art they both Bluesky?

It’s saddening and maddening. As a Canadian is scary watching this unfold. I can’t imagine what it’s like for an American. In terms of Bluesky, I was never into Twitter so I guess that’s why I’m not sure what to do. I like seeing a grid. #️⃣📉

Still working on both sides of social media.

I don’t know how to create content for blue sky - I don’t even know who I’m talking to or with.

Here are a few of the tools I’m working with at the moment.

#ceramics #Pottery, #HandBuilding #Slab

Just started The Paris Secret. I’m fortunate to have a friend who is a voracious reader, and I’m trying to read through the pile she lent me. What are you reading?

🪣 In your method, are your reclaim parts dried out first or somewhere in the soft to leather hard stage?

I’m not sure where the word birthday came from. Maybe I meant to say Ceramic.

Clay recycling tips. 👇

Use a plaster trough lined with cotton for mess-free and easier pick up.

Do you have any clay reclaim tips? Share them in the comments!

#clay #recycle #potterytips

My friend Annette ten Cate recently had a fabulous birthday exhibition “Hare Raising” similar to your work but different. She’s not on blue sky yet but you might be able to look at her website or IG.

Here’s a close up of the miniature buildings in my board game sculpture Chemin Du Roy.

Which home from your ancestry spark the most nostalgia?

Tell me why it sparks memories for you.

#nostalgia #memory #ancestry #heritage #homes #ceramics #architecture

I think we read the same books so far!

Crafting through chaos! Love it!

A day or two later and I still feel rising anxiety. Brings me back to the beginning of the pandemic.

Thank goodness for art and other creative pursuits.

Here’s the front of the punch needle work using the #Oxfordpunchneedle 10 and 14 with bulky wool. Location pins-ceramics and Nichrome wire.

Alana is there an east way to include hashtags?

Stunning!

Anyone else feel like flipping out?

This is the reverse side of a #punchneedle work I made that locates ancestral adobes on both side of the border.

It’s important to see things from different viewpoints in art, and in life.

Who else is waking up to a strange new world? Anxiety level 📶