Crescent Rose Pottery 🌛🌹🌜

Listened to the new music from Hayley Williams and "True Believer" is so good 🤘

A shot of my biscuit sandwich (the Dottie which has egg, cheese, and a hashbrown on) that I already started eating because it was too yummy not to. In the background, you can see the blurry logo of "Tudor's Biscuit World"

My favourite part about going to WV (aside from the lush greenery and mountains) is the Tudor's Biscuit World pit stop on the way home 🤤

A flat lay of in progress skull ornaments. The skulls are in two parts, with the bottom jaw being a separate piece. Most of these will be covered in a rainbow with underglaze

It's never too early for me to work on ornaments. I love making these skulls buddies all year round 💀🤘❤️‍🔥

Good news! Top most layer underfired (probably barely hit cone 5) and bottom most layer got to cone 7 *but* everything looks okay. Thankfully, I don't have to refire the entire kiln load, just a handful of pieces 😅❤️

I accidentally left the lid cracked until my kiln was at 2100°F and the top layer of my kiln underfired. I might have to refire all the pieces that were in there 🥲😫 I now have to wait until my kiln cools down enough so I can check the rest of the pieces 🫣

Thank you ☺️ I'm trying my best!

Good morning friends. This kid is spot on 👏🏼💙

A photo of one of my greenware shelves. The main focus is a curvy beige mug with vines of ivy carved into it. There are also other mugs behind it and a pile of skull magnets and ornaments in the bottom left corner.

I've been struggling to feel very social on social media, but I am still working on things in my studio 🥲❤️

Back from a little weekend getaway, and it went by way too fast 🥲

Unfortunately it does 🥲

I've accepted that the glitter is forever 😅🥲

(Not so) Fun Fact: I'm still finding glittery splatters around my studio. I didn't realize just how far it got 🥲

A view of the top-most layer of my recent kiln unloading. The shelf at the bottom of the photo holds spoon rests in shades of purples, blues, and beige. The shelf towards the top of the photo holds a couple mugs, 2 mushroom candlestick holders and a squiggly worm ring holder.

A beautiful taper candle holder in various shades of blues with golden crystals all over. It's surrounded by red roses and sits on a slice of wood.

A stack of two curvy mugs surrounded by red roses. Each mug has black hearts on a field of splattered red glaze. The handles have a thumbrest.

A black spiderweb bud vase with a sprig of bittersweet nightshade (there is a cluster of purple flowers along with the leaves).

I was so caught up on updating my site that I forgot to update y'all here! There are still quite a few pieces available (like the candlestick holder, red splatter heart mug, and spoonrests). The bud vase already sold, but I love it too much not to include it here 🥹❤️

@chescaleigh.bsky.social

Of all the glazes that I could have accidentally knocked over, it just had to be my open pint of Cosmic Tea Dust. (My floor now has a light coating of glitter even after wiping it multiple times with clean water) 😫

Oh man, I am catching up on so much stuff today 😅 Updating my spreadsheets for tax stuff, unpacking my pottery from the weekend, replying to messages, attending to social media stuff, etc. Getting it done! 💪💀

Two weekends of shows are complete! It was a lot of fun to travel and share my pottery 🥰 Next up is an online update on May 17th 👀❤️

Mer-constellations? 👀🧜‍♀️

Happy birthday to me! 🎉🎉🎉

(Alexa, play "Pity Party" by Melanie Martinez 🎶)

Thank you! It was such a lovely time 🥰 I ate so much good food 🤤

Wheeeee 2hrs in to a 6hr drive to Virginia for the Screamiverse Expo 🚙🙃 (thankfully I'm not the one driving)

My favourite game for the past week is finding things that had been lost for months 🙃

Oracle card, Rage. A skeleton stand in the middle of a gothic frame, holding a bloody knife and skull dripping with blood. They stand on a pill of skulls and bones.

𝕽𝖆𝖌𝖊

✹ Anger ✹ Outburst ✹

"Something broke inside of you and let out this rage, you buried for so long. Let it be for a while, let these emotions out. It won't do you any good to hide what's angering you."

Ahhh this was a perfect kiln firing 🥰

It's crazy seeing how much everything shrunk!

A view of the top-most layer of my loaded kiln. All the pieces are glazed but haven't been fired yet and colors are muted.

I can't wait to see them fired. 🥲

Ahhh I have to wait until Monday to unload my kiln and I just wanna see the goodies (I'm not at my studio until then and I'm impatient 🥲)

Kiln is on for my 3rd glaze firing of the month *and* I'm trying a new bread recipe! So many exciting things 🥰

Like a stripey orange creamsicle!

I'm pretty sure his name is William but for the longest time I would call him George.

Bonus cat video for those who came to check the comments:

Saw my favourite friendly neighborhood cat today after not seeing him for a couple years. During lockdown, I went on more walks than I do now and often stopped to give him pets. He made 2020/2021 much more bearable 🥲