Working in the studio adding some colored slip accents & details to my mugs. Celebrating Mughshot Monday… and what better time to watch “The Great Canadian Pottery Throwdown” watching potters succeed & fail on Reality TV. Also fun to see that my Lillstreet Throwdown’ers had already done some of the same challenges in their class!!!

A week after St. Patrick’s Day, and it looks like Matthew is still celebrating with his new Shamrock Mug… with a festive sipper & the wearin’ of the green!!!

Handles attached and setting-up a bit. A lot of scoring & slipping… attaching & smoothing.

I tell my students all the time… I love making handles & I love making mugs.
Two relatively unpopular opinions!

Handles pulled…looped over… and starting to set-up
before I begin attaching them to the newest batch of hybrid mugs!

Hybrid mugs moving another step forward…
after going back on the wheel for some nicely trimmed footrings.

Have I mentioned lately how much I LOVE trimming??? Well, I do!!

Texture, texture… TEXTURE. Yep, a lot of that going on in the studio today! Assembling my latest batch of “hybrid mugs” with great textures made with my MKM Pottery Tools! Wheelthrown bottoms with handbuilt sides… combining to make my “hybrid mugs”!

For those of you attending NCECA this week… the national clay educators conference & trade show… be sure to check-out the folks at MKM POTTERY TOOLS! They’ve got some amazing hand rollers to try out… and some fun postcards they’re passing out!!!

Hey, lookey there… it’s ME!!! …and some of my soda-fired “hybrid mugs” on the MKM postcards!

As part of our final classes each session, I like to have a little fun with my students doing a “white elephant” trading-stealing-exchanging game! Tonight with my Beginners, the category was a handmade mug. And I came home with this beauty made by Maryanna! Which let me just say… worked perfectly to hold my hot fudge sundae during our potluck… a couple times… burp!

If you stopped by my pottery page last night to shop for a SHAMROCK MUG… you might have seen that a red, red “Robin” came a bob, bob bobbin’ along… and “claimed” thirteen of the mugs for purchase! That would have been AMAZING… but slightly suspect. So I checked into it… and apparently the “Robin” should have worn her glasses and didn’t understand the process. Turns out she didn’t even want a mug!!! She just “liked” them!!!

So her Comment of MINE has been deleted and those Shamrock Mugs are still available! If you see one you want (with your glasses on)… just put a MINE in the Comment of that mug… and then I’ll confirm & follow-up with more info. Just scroll back to last night to see my mug post from last night. Or click here to go to the SHAMROCK MUGS Photo Album from last night… https://www.facebook.com/share/p/WCYyQbufTAdJQ7ZH/?mibextid=oFDknk

Another sneak peek… just one of seventeen SHAMROCK MUGS coming your way!!! Get it?… 17 mugs for St. Patrick’s Day on March 17th?! So… going up for sale only on my pottery Facebook page at 8:00pm central. I mean… as long as I can get all of the photos prepped & ready by then?! Fingers crossed… giddy-up!!!

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