Zed 🏳️‍🌈

Happily, this is a hobby ofc, so can at least know anything I sell will be made with true intention and love! Can’t imagine having to make the same things over & over to a schedule

Would you like to do mine?!

Maybe next year I’ll pick a random month, because this year it sure isn’t gonna happen! 😅

I’m coming to learn that there is nothing worse for me than a demand, even self-imposed. I’ve been thinking lately that maybe I “should” make things people might buy as gifts toward the end of the year. And the more I think that, the more I refuse to make a cup and throw only Big Vases 🤷🏼

I might’ve thought of this when I wired my pot off this morning and there was a hole in the wafer thin bottom 😖

As someone who loathes glazing, this is basically a nightmare image

I would encourage anyone and everyone into it, especially if it’s for mental health! I know these parts suck but generally, in case it’s read straight up, absolutely do ir

In case it’s of interest to those of you with POTS, an elite NBA player has/had it really recently. Haven’t heard of a mega sportsperson with it before. Kristaps Porzingis, and he was out for a long while with post/viral issues.

(He is also a horrible man, just an FYI!)

Absolutely nobody needs to see my try to sculpt 😅

Thrown pot, straight sided with angled collar, and two roughly shaped test tiles

Close up

Haven’t really explored throwing sharp angles much but this came out well. Trying to work out what I can do with 1kg of clay samples, small pot and two test tiles should work

Think what I’m gonna do is quite aggressively trim the bottom half and see if it’s a form I like or not 🙂‍↕️

I can’t collar the neck any more because it would need some heat but my wife is on a work call next to me lol

Vase on my pottery wheel, freshly thrown

Just sitting here looking at this vase like… what does it need

A screenshot: a trio of small vases

A screenshot: a small lidded pot

Lidded jar with carved detail at the shoulder and lid

I reckon these type things

Sometimes I think it’s a wonder we get along at all…

Bloating. I don’t know enough about the clay body or the engobe to guess which combination is responsible but you could start here digitalfire.com/trouble/bloa...

I have some clay samples coming, about 2.2lbs of each and I’m trying to decide what would be the best thing to make with that amount of clay 🤔

Close up of the side of a ceramic pot, a dark semi-matt green glaze with leaf-shaped resist showing off-white clay

I had a small hiatus from making, mostly due to a nasty virus dovetailing into a mental health dip, but here’s a sneak peak of my Forest Matt Green on the paler clay. (Once I have enough, I’ll do a shop restock. In the meantime, there are pots up here, all ship to the UK

WavingPinesPottery.co.uk )

Yes!

Hey I wasn’t expecting to feel like I fell down a flight of stairs this morning wtf

My body has been keeping the fucking score for forty long years, and it has been keeping said score solely in my muscles. I’m like a human elastic band ball at this point

About halfway through the massage, as she says some variation of “oh, lots of knots here” for the hundredth time, I asked if there had been anywhere yet without, and she said…. no.

You say this every week and every week it’s the WRONG DAY

Weirdly, mostly fine. Not my ideal way to spend time, not like… a luxury or whatever, but I so need it. NHS are talking surgery, but I really might be able to avoid it. I’m slowwwly learning to navigate this new way of being terrified - different to the old way.

I let a stranger massage me for like 45 minutes Chill

Oh I did not find it to be a particularly nourishing thing tbh but I do think it can help my poor body

I did something today that I would not have been capable of doing basically at any point in the last 12 years.

Yeah and like, how much do I care, it’s an hour a fortnight!

I’m sure there’s like three guys still left 😳😂

This feels like the beginning of a Cold War Steve piece