I’ve been having “Hand-Building Adventures” for the last couple of weeks.  It’s been fun, challenging and very, very dirty.  Ugh, I hate having my hands dirty…the amount of clay I’m cleaning out from under my nails is just terrifying.

Anyway, the first two pots that I showed you in the last blog have had issues.  The Van Gogh pot cracked at the bottom when it was drying, so I think it will turn into a great planter (the lid was way, way, way too big for it anyway…) and the swirly one, well it’s handle and lid have shattered.  This is all before firing it in the kiln by the way.  So there could still be carnage when it comes to that as well.

In the mean time, I decided to try to make a smaller tea pot.  This one looks like s UFO, but it’s cute!  I can’t wait to see how it does for the bisque firing.  Here’s a photo:

I also had this vision to make a triangle tea pot as well.  So I started on it and it’s not quite what I envisioned, but It’s still something kinda cool looking.  But, the more I started to look at it, the more I thought it’s pretty, but not perfect. Then that got me thinking that maybe that’s what I should call anything that I hand-build.

So when I get comfortable with hand-building I will call that line, Pretty, but not Perfect.  I think that’s best.