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Just not my week!
So disappointing! This is my stoned denim which is very stable so I assume it’s from the carving???? It was a gift! Ugh! Back to the grind…literally!!! 🤦🏼♀️
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Hi Cindy.. sorry about your bowl. Have you thought about kiln paper? I've been using it for about 3 glaze kiln loads now and It does add to the cost of it all, but gives piece of mind as extra protection for the kiln shelves.
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@Cindy Hathaway https://a.co/d/06lYGe2o is what I use. Yeah they are for glass work but work great up to cone 6
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Mesh Screen Printing - Sailing Ship
This is my 2nd time now using mesh screen printing - Amaco Inks black and Mayco mesh screen. I have been in contact with a company in Victoria Australia to have my own mesh screens made - looking into this. I will do a video next time I do a mesh screen printing on my pottery on the process of screen printing❤️
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Linda, I adore your ship platter, so beautiful. Perfect glaze combo for it too. I've been trying silkscreen but with underglaze and Mayco powder it thickens it clumpy though. I need to invest in amaco inks i think. Can't wait to see your own designs on your pottery!
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Studio set-up/storage
Hi everyone, I’m new here, but I’ve been watching most of you on YouTube for the past year or so. I got a wheel last summer and have throwing in a tiny corner in my basement with a set of shelves to my right and a narrow folding table to my left. It’s kind of a mess 😂. My very safety-conscious husband doesn’t like the idea of me making dust in the low-airflow basement, so I’m moving out to our 12’x16’ shed, which I will share with my new Skutt 1022 kiln and some lawn equipment and 3 bikes. I will effectively have 12’x12’ of floor space, minus the kiln. Any tips for set up from those of you with your own spaces? Anything you wish you would have known or thought of from the start?
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Congrats on your new pottery work space. Some ideas you may want to consider in addition to what others have suggested. One thing I didn't have in mine at first was a washroom sink. I had to wash everything outside with the hose and buckets. My son put a large sink in for me a few months ago and just runs out to the trees, but cleanup is so easy now. A TV so you can be inspired by other potters while you work. A way to heat water in the winter if you dont have hot water to a sink, because ice cold throwing water is a pain.
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Pottery Pop-Up
I’m planning on a Pottery Pop-Up in my driveway/yard the weekend of May 2nd, so in just a week and a half. I have not done any advertising, but plan to let folks know through social media and local groups. The fact is that I use pottery to help with stress and as a form of therapy… so I’ve been doing a lot lately 🤪 and I would like to unload some. It’s funny how my brain can go from worrying about nobody stopping to worrying about not having enough pottery for this Pop-Up. The brain is tricky isn’t it? Because it is in my driveway, there is no cost except my time/effort and I thought it would be interesting to give it a go. I normally do two Markets in November with my Guild and a local benefit so I’m set up for payment and to a certain extent, displays. I’m sharing with you because you’re my Pottery People 💗💗 and I’m nervous. And also to learn if you have any advice. I’m all ears 👂 EDITED TO ADD: I live on a busy/fast country road, so I won’t get foot traffic. It would have to be people who see my signs and drive in.
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We are doing that very thing but set a date the second Saturday every month. We have a horse trailer that we turned into a pottery and craft show room. We just open the doors and set up the tent. The way we have been drawing people in, is offering free Pottery lessons on the wheel, handbuilding as well as bead jewlery making lessons.. So here, it's turning into a community event. But hopefully they remember what we have for sale. At first we got one person , now we have a sign up list. Location matters too. I hope you have a great turnout!
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Using AI for repairs and creative ideas
I am so happy I finally found this group! I was fortunate to be given a large 22 year old large, Cress kiln and a pottery wheel along with all the tools to go with it two years ago after my friend's dad had passed. I had no idea what the kiln would do, but since I knew it had been fired once a year. I took a chance and hit the start button on my first bisque load and it all did fine.. then moved to glaze fire and all went fine..but then it started to overfire each load. I had nobody here to ask. I named my kiln lovingly Mr. Doubtfire from that point on, and just watched cones from the peeps and stopped the fire. Cone 6 was falling at Cone 3 setting. Then it underfired one day and I knew it was way overdue to replace all the parts and coils.. with AI help we did. I'm at the point, I want to create different and unique ceramics. I don't sell a whole lot here where I live, and have not branched to online sales yet, but I am way overstocked with pottery. Now I am using AI for glaze combos and artistic idea feedback with some interesting results. Just wondering if anyone else uses AI for inspiration?
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@Linda Robertson I have a love hate relationship with AI. It can give some wrong advice for sure, and had us fixing things that were actually already working in the kiln..but I would have been totally lost without it back then.
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@Melanie Koserowski I agree and i totally understand your frustration with it. I spent 20 years learning 3D graphics... still not very good at it, but AI can create those images in seconds. I was a web designer and AI can program HTML, program code, and do graphics in seconds too. Filmmaking is crazy weird now. I am a screenwriter, or was, but won't I use AI to edit because it will take and reuse ideas. We don't know what's real or AI now so we reject all of it as fake. AI even does scheduling at my daughter's work. It is in our phone as well and analyzes everything we do online. It will replace our doctors. It is taking most jobs. It is scary! But with all that said. It is here to stay and it can be a useful tool to save time. I just wondered if others use it like I do its as a tool. I'm not trying to convince anyone to use it though. I use it for graphics and photos as well, because it does save time. As a potter that is, because I'm not trying to be graphic artist or photgrapher and I don't want to spend hours doing that now. At my age, time is in short supply. I would rather be making pottery. I still learn from youtube and spend most of my day watching most everyone here. And it was my only pottery teacher. I research everything the hard way as well. One thing AI doesn't do, is get angry or frustrated with my endless questions and stupid ideas ..i would drive most people crazy.😁
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@lee-ann-riddle-5009
I have been creating pottery for 2 years at my home studio in southern California. I retired this year and enjoy creating ceramic art.
Active 2h ago
Joined Apr 22, 2026