Stuffington's Ceramics & More!

Stuffington's Customer piece - dinner plate with a black-and-white painting of a young Ozzie Osborne with a bat behind his head.

A customer painted this amazing tribute to Ozzy Osborne and it rawks!

We believe everyone has some familiarity with all tasks. So I've been teaching one of our people how to dip in the clear overglaze, & another one how to load. So now one has green glaze all over, and the other has been inducted into the Order of Elrond Half-shelven. Well done my padawans. ;)

Mid-sized blonde dog sitting on her blanket, looking at the camera

We had a Paint with Puppies event this last weekend in partnership with Pasado's Pet Rescue, and we met this newest member of our family there. Meet Quorra, here at the shop today for the first time:

ceramic vessel with a tiny green abstract from painted to look like he's peeking up at you from inside the rim

Tonight's Potty Mouth Night and we're getting ready, but I'm still making "toooo cute" faces about this tiny frog a customer put inside the rim of their piece.

I went down a rabbit-hole about Arabian calligraphy, and ran into this. Just gorgeous.

Round platter with "Dada's Grilling Plate, a drawing of a barbeque grill, with hand and footprints as the flames

Sooo many handprints/footprints for Father's Day! I've been annoying small children by smearing mud on them and having them give things a high-five all morning. ;)

I like the orange outlines left. It would make a great contrast piece, especially if they're mostly hard oranges and stuff in their decorating. FWIW

It’s my tribute to the legend @keithbrymerjones.bsky.social I bloody love Keith and his emotional reactions to contestants pots on @potterythrow . So I made him into a Seal, of course! He’s giving the ‘Seal of Approval’ - by crying, and saying his standard, choked up, “Absolutely brilliant, mate”

SecUnit hates that physical affection! Read the Murderbot Diaries by @marthawells.com and watch the new Murderbot show if you haven't already. Most relatable robot human construct 🤖

(Process of book vase. Inspired by All Systems Red and the series in general)

A cartoon illustration of 3 sea turtles sipping coffee and watching the sunrise from a beach. Caption reads "The sea turtles generally liked starting their day on the beach."

Nice view. #grickledoodle #turtles #beach #sunrise #coffee #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Plates, platters, small dishes

#ceramics #artist #painter #painting #plates #ceramicplate #potter #pottery

That piece is glorious, but you're a braver man than I to balance that lid on those bricks like that!

These are amazing! We're getting ready to pull out all our Pride bisque, too.

large mug with realistic shark painted on it

large mug with realistic hammerhead shark painted on it

This mug turned out amazing. This person hadn't ever painted ceramics before, but they were familiar with watercolors so they used a similar technique of building layers of color. Love it!

Getting ready for tomorrow morning's Mother's Day Brunch. The food and flowers are here, and prepping table decor and seating charts while fielding today's birthday party and painters. It's a Saturday! ;)

ceramic sword with real gold details on hilt and pommel

ceramic box with gold and silver details on the sun, moon, and stars

On top of glazing, we can help you apply actual gold and silver to your pieces to REALLY make them pop. It does require a second firing, so talk to us when you plan your piece and we can help.

bare ceramic vintage nativity set

unglazed ceramic Christmas trees

bare ceramic Victorian Santas and a street scene with shoppers

It's starting to look like Christmas! At least on one of our display racks. ;) We've got several kinds and sizes of lighted trees, Nativity sets, figures, and a lot of ornaments. And there's more on the way. If you're ready to start your Kringling, come on in! #StuffingtonsCeramics #ceramics

Well, guess what I'm going to have running through my head all night. ;)

We managed to fit all the pieces from last weekend in just one of our kilns, to my complete surprise. The credit goes to Joost and his favorite tool, Elrond Half-shelven. (it's a broken half-shelf that offsets just perfectly to allow the posts to hold it up be worked around efficiently)

rather extreme angle selfie of Sam and Taylor and various people dressed 80's style

Colleen dressed as the manager of the food court at the 80's mall our murder mystery is set as

Claire, our evening's host with a high side ponytail

A couple of 80's Murder Mystery Party pics of staff and friends. We're having a awesome time painting a ceramic glass with fingerprints on it for evidence. Then we'll be interrogating each other and eating pretzels and corn dogs and little Cinnabons and drinking Orange Julius!

small black and brown dog, sleeping with his tongue hanging out

I hear you. As we poor humans work through the last hour of the shop's open hours tonight Loki is on his throne. He is sprawled like one of your French girls, snoring aloud, and showing off a cute little blep. As you can tell, his watchword is "Dignity, always dignity."

Those are amazing!

white plate with prices for coffee, tea, and refridgerated items in our snack area at Stuffington's

Did you know that fired ceramics can be used as whiteboards? We use them for signage at our shop. They don't have to be plain white like this one -- just leave a spot with a light color for the writing!

Has anyone tried that metallic-sharpie-as-resist thing that's going around? If you have, have you tried it on cone 06 with Stroke-and-Coat? If so, how did it go?

square coffee cup with a representation of an ancient Roman mosaic that says "Cave Canem" which is Latin for "Beware of Dog"

My experiment with the crackle glaze was a huge success! Didn't turn out exactly right - the crackle glaze and the blue underneath it reacted in an unexpected way, and it was a repaired piece of bisque. It's probably going to end up with a plant in it. But I'm going to do this again for sure.

Today we held our annual Paint with the Police event- officers came in to hang out and paint. I got to scritch Oscar the police dog again, so as far as I am concerned it was a complete win! I painted this experimental cup with crackle glaze to see if it will look like an ancient mosaic. We'll see!

Three voluptuous pumpkins in high heels with the word "Gourdeous" on a 4" ceramic tile

We have some very sassy customers: ;)

Some samples of painted ceramics with sort of naughty sayings on them like, "Birch, Please!" and "Show Me Your Kitties" with two kitties painted on the plate

Part of the crowd at the Stuffington's Ceramics May Potty Mouth Night

We've got a studio-full for our May monthly Potty Mouth Night. People are eating and drinking and painting pottery and spilling the tea all over with their friends. And it's awesome!

Loki, my Chihuahua/Yorkshire Terrier mix, drifting off to sleep with a tongue-blep in his comfy throne

Our shop-dog, Loki, may be comfy. :)

beaker-shaped bong pipe painted white with blue delft-style patterns

Working with the younger staff on doing this social media thing. We'll get this Insta/Tik/whatever thing figured out. ;) In the meantime, here's a pic of one of my favorite pieces to come out lately.