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I’ve made a few pottery posts this year, I’ve decided I’m fine with it. My creative pottery muse is having fun. I’ve worked on a few new mugs and sugar bowls.
(Ignore the small images. I'm not fighting with DW to figure out how to make them larger today. They are thumbnails so you can get a close up view if you want.)

I continued with the bee theme and I wanted to etch a bee on a hexagon sugar bowl. I don’t sketch well enough or confidently enough to free hand it, but I’ve got mad tracing skills. ;)

Next up were sets of mugs for friends. I’m thrilled with out these have turned out thus far. They went through further refining and smoothing out after the pic was taken, but I forgot to update my pics. I had different challenges this time, so it was fun to figure out how to make things work. The large writing mug was more technically challenging than I expected, but that was still fun. I had to erase a few times because it didn’t look right. The large mug with small writing was also difficult because I made this design before and replicating something can be tricky. I didn’t have the gitters that day, so I’m happy with how the writing turned out. The earthenware clay mug was the first time I’ve tried little sketches, worked this technique on earthenware clay, and wrote on a curved surface.