my slo-bot life 🏳️⚧️
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Reader, potter, petter of pets. She/her
August 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
August 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Progress shot! Done with he first round of 400 grit sanding for this teapot. I’ll continue up to 1500 grit and then, once I can’t feel any more rough areas and the mold seams are as invisible as I can make them, she’s done! I want smooth, not glossy. More stone than glass.
#pottery #ceramics
#pottery #ceramics
July 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Unglazed black porcelain shows the history of this mug, from the slip that wasn’t mixed well to where the handle separated when I opened the mold, and more. Every mistake.
I can’t show you how she feels in the hand, but if you’ve ever picked up a stone from a river bed, you can imagine.
#pottery
I can’t show you how she feels in the hand, but if you’ve ever picked up a stone from a river bed, you can imagine.
#pottery
July 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Unglazed black porcelain shows the history of this mug, from the slip that wasn’t mixed well to where the handle separated when I opened the mold, and more. Every mistake.
I can’t show you how she feels in the hand, but if you’ve ever picked up a stone from a river bed, you can imagine.
#pottery
I can’t show you how she feels in the hand, but if you’ve ever picked up a stone from a river bed, you can imagine.
#pottery
Hopeful first look! The cup with the red glaze has some weird issues but the others may be ok! Can’t tell yet if tea pot lids will fit. Gotta wait for it all to cool down a few hundred more degrees. Pottery is a harsh but extremely hot mistress
July 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Hopeful first look! The cup with the red glaze has some weird issues but the others may be ok! Can’t tell yet if tea pot lids will fit. Gotta wait for it all to cool down a few hundred more degrees. Pottery is a harsh but extremely hot mistress
Will this last year of design and mold building amount to anything? Soon we find out. Wish me luck, pottery friends
July 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Will this last year of design and mold building amount to anything? Soon we find out. Wish me luck, pottery friends
Modeled. Printed. Primed. Sanded. Sealed. Next up: mold release, then plaster! Then someday, a teapot
#pottery #slipcast #moldmaking #process #messy
#pottery #slipcast #moldmaking #process #messy
April 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Modeled. Printed. Primed. Sanded. Sealed. Next up: mold release, then plaster! Then someday, a teapot
#pottery #slipcast #moldmaking #process #messy
#pottery #slipcast #moldmaking #process #messy
Printing part of the case mold for a new version of a cup. My workspace is unheated, so winter is the time for design and prep. Once it warms up a little, this mold (and others) will be primed, sanded, sealed, and cast in plaster to make molds for slip casting
#ceramics #pottery #slipcast #process
#ceramics #pottery #slipcast #process
February 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
February 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Sneak preview of part of the case mold for next year’s teapot. Check back in 8 months or so to see if it turns into anything
December 1, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Sneak preview of part of the case mold for next year’s teapot. Check back in 8 months or so to see if it turns into anything
Pretty happy with this one. I wish the lid fit more cleanly. And there are ergonomic issues with the lid and with pouring, so the design needs another revision and I need more practice executing. But she didn’t explode or slump or warp or get stuck together, and the glaze actually looks decent!
November 25, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Pretty happy with this one. I wish the lid fit more cleanly. And there are ergonomic issues with the lid and with pouring, so the design needs another revision and I need more practice executing. But she didn’t explode or slump or warp or get stuck together, and the glaze actually looks decent!
Once again pottery friends I am asking for your good thoughts
November 24, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Once again pottery friends I am asking for your good thoughts
Mugs from the glaze kiln. Pottery is very frustrating sometimes; each of these has a serious flaw. One might be correctable with a little sandpaper. We’ll see
November 18, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Mugs from the glaze kiln. Pottery is very frustrating sometimes; each of these has a serious flaw. One might be correctable with a little sandpaper. We’ll see
Porcelain vases from the glaze kiln. These were thrown years ago, glazed yesterday. Pottery is sometimes slow and then other times, somewhat less slow
November 18, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Porcelain vases from the glaze kiln. These were thrown years ago, glazed yesterday. Pottery is sometimes slow and then other times, somewhat less slow
Sneak peek of hot hot hot pots
November 18, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Sneak peek of hot hot hot pots
Wish me luck, pottery pals
November 17, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Wish me luck, pottery pals
Since I’m apparently not anxious enough already I just committed my first 3 teapots and a bunch of other new work to the (electric) flames. Pottery, it’s a risky bisqueness
November 3, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Since I’m apparently not anxious enough already I just committed my first 3 teapots and a bunch of other new work to the (electric) flames. Pottery, it’s a risky bisqueness
Another “almost” from the latest glaze kiln. (Cleverly chosen photo angle hides the lip, which is uneven enough to make you seasick if you look at it in a cupboard next to other cups)
October 20, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Another “almost” from the latest glaze kiln. (Cleverly chosen photo angle hides the lip, which is uneven enough to make you seasick if you look at it in a cupboard next to other cups)
2nd cast of the big teapot mold! This time, she has a little hat!
October 11, 2024 at 7:52 PM
2nd cast of the big teapot mold! This time, she has a little hat!
I made this and I’m almost happy with it!
October 8, 2024 at 6:34 PM
I made this and I’m almost happy with it!
This is the energy I want to project on Bluesky.
September 21, 2024 at 9:09 PM
This is the energy I want to project on Bluesky.
Ollie owns a fabulous ear styling salon. He’s his own best customer (and advertisement)
July 26, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Ollie owns a fabulous ear styling salon. He’s his own best customer (and advertisement)
She was. And happy and loved. We just had some more snow this week and it hurts to see it lying in the yard untouched. But I’m glad we had some in February also, and she got to play in it one last time.
March 23, 2024 at 2:27 PM
She was. And happy and loved. We just had some more snow this week and it hurts to see it lying in the yard untouched. But I’m glad we had some in February also, and she got to play in it one last time.