One last thing before they dry… I added a layer of colored flashing slip to my batch of hybrid mugs. At some point, these mugs will be soda-fired so they should change to shades of oranges & yellows during the atmospheric firing.

After an afternoon of attaching handles… I now have a new batch of hybrid mugs.
And all of them with the popular coneflower pattern from a MKM Pottery Tools handroller.

They’re coming along nicely… a fresh batch of hybrid mugs in the works!
Next up… trimming, then handles!

A mug full of flowers! Who says a mug has to be just for coffee or tea? I prefer to use them as a vase for pretty flowers. Bright colored anemones, ranunculus & gerbera daisies in a swirly blue hybrid mug. Perfect for another Mugshot Monday!

A little Fall collection gracing the kitchen table… flowers, fruits & veggies, pumpkins & MUGS!!! Another perfect way to celebrate Mugshot Monday!!! Thanks for sharing your autumnal display Kelly!!!

At the end of the workshop, AL and I did a little pottery trade!!! I came home with a great lidded bowl. Where the rim is hollow & perforated so it doesn’t get hot… and a lid that flips over to become a bowl. Again, with hollow & perforated knob so it too does not get hot!!! AL went home with two of my hybrid mugs… not so matchy-matchy… but clearly close enough that they just couldn’t be separated from each other!

So I did a little roadtrip up to Appleton, Wisconsin yesterday to drop-off some hybrid mugs with the fine folks at MKM Pottery Tools. It was great to finally meet Rick, as well as his support staff with Angie, Rachel, Seth & Christopher… as we’ve only known each other “virtually” online. It was great to finally hang-out, get to know each other for real & deliver some of my soda-fired hybrid mugs to them. It was kind of a cool “full-circle moment” as I use the MKM handrollers to create my hybrid mugs. And Appleton is apparently where all the magic comes from!!!

Headed north for a fun roadtrip… getting ready to deliver a special “commission” of hybrid mugs!!! It’ll be a fun “full-circle moment” for these mugs… more details to come!!!

Sure, I coulda done this over the past week or so… but it’s always “so much more fun” to be prepping, pricing & packing pots on the day when I should out in Barrington setting up already!!! Well, at least this large batch of new hybrid mugs will be coming with me this weekend to ART IN THE BARN!!!

I got a fun surprise “shout-out” by the folks at MKM Pottery Tools. There I was just casually scrolling through my Insta Feed… and suddenly… “Hey, that mug looks familiar?!”… and it was one of mine! Just another one of my “hybrid mugs” that are both wheelthrown & handbuilt. The top part is a textured slab made with my favorite carved handrollers from MKM Pottery Tools! So many patterns, so many options… thanks again MKM!!!