Posted on September 21, 2008 by cindyinsd
Drying your newly made pottery pieces may seem like the least of your worries, but it’s not as uncomplicated as it looks. Not terrible, but there are some tips that will help you to get through this stage safely, and I’ll share some of them with you here. If any of you reading have additional [...]
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Posted on September 13, 2008 by cindyinsd
When we left off last time, poor Jeremy (as I’ve decided to call him) had eyes and a nose, but no mouth. What a pickle! I’m going to call Cheri’s little guy Vince, though I’m sure she would have some other name for him (that is, if she weren’t out camping this weekend, in what [...]
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Posted on September 7, 2008 by cindyinsd
As you can see, I had a little fun playing with the background for this pot in my paint program. It’s an example of a type of pottery that people have been making for thousands of years, mostly using a jug or bottle for the canvas rather than a wide-topped pot as you see here. [...]
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