my passion, my pottery

Do you have a specialty craft that you love, or are you the type that tries everything to learn the process, and be able to say, "i can make that."

I usually find i'm trying to find my nieche craft.........drifting from scrapbooking to zentangles, sewing to crochet, maybe one day i'll do a soldering class and make a sculpture dragon purely out of hex nuts. (it's a dream of mine along with life drawing and a screenprinting class.)

But my passion, or medium of choice, is clay.

A medium that can be moulded into any shape......the ideas are endless.

I've had two wheel lessons and have made a few 'thrown' bowls.....but it's not my forte. Most potters use the wheel as a way to create vessels......the real magic is in handbuilding.

I'm currently enjoying simple bowl making with textures etched in...doilies, stamps, or anything laying around. I'm also playing with glaze colours and finishes (waiting on availability to do a glaze class.)

I've sold a few things in the shop and i'd love to sell some work at the markets,  but it would be 1/3 pottery, 1/3 upcycled & 1/3 mixed media......because i never want to just have one specialty........but that's just today!!

Tomorrow I might find something else on pinterest and go off on another tangent!!

But for today, I'm just happy to steal away 10 minutes to do something creative with my hands.

If only I could stretch those 10 minutes into 2 hours and get my hands dirty!!!  :)