Love the morning sun shining in on Allison’s mug… looks like Spring sunshine to me!!! This is one of my “wheelthrown-handbulit-combo” mugs… which I’m in the process of making more of right now!!! Thanks for sharing your morning ritual with us Allison!

Celebrating another MUGSHOT MONDAY with a quick reminder that you can shop online anytime! You can get your own mug to “celebrate” along… over 50 to choose from… as well as bowls, vases, berry bowls, and bunches of other pottery pieces.

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Well, it’s another Monday, so I guess it’s time for another Mugshot… or eight?! Just a few more mugs hanging out on my back porch on a Monday afternoon!

POTTERY FLASHBACK! So my good friends wanted to get their granddaughter some new pottery. Apparently, Sarah has been “complaining” that everyone else in the family has “nice Gary pottery” and all she got stuck with was “The Ugly Mug”!!! It was this stamped amber mug that Sarah had at home… while everyone else thought it was a different “ugly” mug?!!!

Turns out a different family member had the original “Ugly Mug”… from early on in my pottery career even before stamping!!!

Either way, “ugly” or not… Sarah ended up with some new bright blue pottery to add to her collection thanks to Rosene & Gerry. Hopefully overshadowing & wiping away the memory of Sarah’s original “ugly” pottery!!!

Uh oh… another one bites the dust!!!

And this one is a bit painful.
It was the very first mug that my very first art fair friends ever got from me! It has lived a long life with them… as you can tell by this earlier “style” with minimal stamping and too much glaze for a good soda-firing?! Luckily, they have more than PLENTY of my newer pottery pieces in their house… and I’m sure they’ll get more!!!

Sad day & sad mug Rosene!

Well here’s the latest batch of mugs. All assembled & slip painted… some with orange, some mustard, some robin’s egg, and a few more colors of slip! All of which should show up better & more colorful after soda-firing!

Getting these ready for my next soda-firing… by adding some accents & details of colored flashing slips to my mugs. The slip may look a little creamy-white right now, but with the soda atmosphere during firing, this slip should turn a beautiful orange color!

Which just happens to be my favorite color… go figure!

Handles added. Mugs made.
Ready to start adding some colored flashing slips to them
before I call them done for the night!

Celebrating another MUGSHOT MONDAY
by making more mugs… and adding handles!

I’ve had this discussion before with my students…
“Can a mug be a mug without a handle?”

They seem to think you can as an “avoidance” to making handles…
I of course think not. I love making mugs. I love making handles!
They go together… by definition I believe.

Looks like one of my stamped & soda-fired mugs has found a new place of honor in Margaret’s mug collection in Ohio! Always fun to see people’s collections… especially if I’m part of it!!!

Please e-mail me photos of YOUR pottery collection or pots-in-use! I’d love to see my pottery in your home so I can share them here for everyone else!

gary@firewhenreadypottery.com