https://youtu.be/-O-HZMxzvF0?is=G1H27fvx850jy1i6 Why not enter my giveaway? All I ask is an honest review in return. I hope to make more of these mugs but want to make sure they are durable, as well as looking cool 👍🏻 Thanks! ❤️

People seem to fall into exactly two camps: 💚 “I could put cilantro on everything.” 🤢 “It tastes like soap!” Fun fact: That “soap” taste is actually linked to genetics. So… where do you stand? 😄

They’ve just said on the news that we’ve had the warmest spring on record, and now we’re in a heatwave with temperatures expected to reach around 38°C. Apparently we’ve not seen June temperatures like this since 1976, so no wonder it feels a bit extreme! Never seen the map look so fiery hot on the news!!!! Normally my studio is actually the coolest place for me to escape to. It’s an annex on our grounds, with 18-inch thick stone walls and sits under the canopy of the forest, so it has been an absolute saviour in hot weather. Even our Rhodesian Ridgeback Kaiser follows me in there to lie on the cold floor tiles which is very unusual! But today even the studio was baking… although that may have something to do with the fact I fired Blaze last night. 😂 The good news is my greenware is drying quickly, but it’s definitely not ideal when I still need to handle pieces. I’m suddenly having to rethink my usual drying routines and keep a much closer eye on things than normal. For my fellow UK potters, how are you managing your clay, studio time, drying and firings in this heat? And for everyone else around the world… what are your weather extremes where you are? Hottest heat, coldest cold, humidity, snow, storms — I’d love to hear how your climate affects your pottery.

Hello all 👋 Advice needed. I glazed this mug all over with Macadamia x2 before the Sandstone and Green Jasper and as you can see the top is very matte, not great for drinking out of… (I think I confused macadamia with birch 🙄) What would you use to reglaze over the top and inside? Clear, honey flux or birch? I will probably leave the outside of the decal as is. Any other suggestions welcome ❤️ This mug came out off my latest kiln opening which I would really appreciate you watch. Some more subscribers would be fantastic too 👍🏻 @MudSoulsPottery

So today was the day I finally used my brand new, pristine condition, very cheap pottery wheel! I am pretty good at hand building (though a large pinch pot sphere yesterday made me question this 😅) but I have only a little experience with wheel throwing. I know the basics, but am not good at any of it. Centring clay is sometimes still a challenge. So here I am with a wheel I’ve never used before and then I decided to add to the challenge by using a clay I’ve never used before!! A speckled clay that I bought more than a month ago and told myself I couldn’t use it unless it was on the wheel. To add to this, we are in a heatwave here in the UK. The temperatures might not seem high to those of you from hotter places, but everything in the UK is built to keep out rain and keep heat in, there’s very little air conditioning. So that meant getting up at 6:30am so I could cut and prep the clay and be done throwing before 9am when the temperatures really start to rise. It was, to say the least, challenging 🤣 But it was good to try, and I’ve balled up enough clay to try again either tonight or tomorrow morning again. I wasn’t trying to keep anything, which is why the photo is of a bunch of pots cut in half. The one pot I did keep had a nice round rim until I ripped off the newspaper lid too cavalierly for the photo and bent it out of shape. Some challenges truly are challenging! 😅 But I am happy I finally started on the wheel, so it’s all good!