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Mary Ostler
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A couple things from the pottery classes I took. We were encouraged to experiment with multi layer glazes.

#pottery
My underglaze experiment of my sythian goat worked...OK. think i know how to improve it. The inside of a bowl with three layers of glaze. Clear, then an orange, then a streaky bluey/brown glaze.
February 13, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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I have hit the point where I only truly know what day of the week it is by what podcasts dropped into my release feed.

Must be a Thursday. As I get The Friendly Atheist podcast and a Beyond the Bastards podcast.

Happy Thursday everyone.
February 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Three separate attempts at snatching a FB marketplace loom in three weeks. I am destined to be the second person to reply.

That 12 shaft loom would have been sweet (even if it was toggle and not foot treadled).

#loom #weaving
February 9, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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With all the garbage going on, I really didn't need Catherine O'Hara passing away.

My second favorite SCTV character was Lola Heatherton.
January 30, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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Made a little pot for a small carnivorous plant. The inside is an oxblood red underglaze, and the blue details pattern I am calling Cormorants on parade.

#pottery
Little white clay pot with blue details around the pots belly. The inside of the pot is oxblood red underglaze with clear glaze.
January 26, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Reading up on extinction burst theory.

Gawd, I hope things don't get much worse, before they get better.
January 25, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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I'm so tired from work, I'm too tired to do any of my hobbies on my day off.

Construction Plumbing may pay well but its a tough damn trade on a 50+ year old body.
January 17, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Installing the skulls around the fence of baba yagas hut. All posts get a skull but one. My favorite BY tale has bone gramma out played by a young maid and forced to loose one of her skull lanterns.

#pottery #babayaga
Skulls are being placed on the fence surrounding Baba Yagas hut.
January 11, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Redoing my glaze tile board. New tiles and a pretty frame cause why not.

#pottery #ceramics #NERD
An oval frame that will be repurposed as a glaze tile frame.
January 2, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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Today i am greatful for my local Langely Farmers Market (fruit and veg grocery chain).

Often I find they cut a couple of their cabbages in half.

As a single person a whole cabbage is toooooooo much cabbage.

#groceries #cabbage #toomuch
January 1, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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Not bad for a non potter.

Made a candlestick with a 16th century Islamic vibe.

Need work on underglaze technique.

#sca #mysca #TirRigh #AnTir #pottery #ceramic
December 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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My favorite inspirational poster.
Picture of a nepenthes pitcher plant with the i aspiration quote "Get lost in nature and you will ("find yourself" is crossed out) quite possibly die".
December 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Messing about with home made underglaze transfers.

The quote is from some centuries old treatise on urine colour analysis.

#sca #TirRigh #AnTir #ceramics
December 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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If you see this, post your art with animals.
#ArtShare #animals
Primitive fired pottery. A flask painted in red oxide, burnished, and then fired. The red changed to black. A sythian style goat scratched into the surface.
December 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Working on my blue sunshade, complete with a semy of 8 pointed voided stars (Populace badge of Tir Righ). Based on a small background detail of a 12th century illumination.

#TirRigh #mysca #antir #sca
Small detail of either a sunshade or an aframe tent from an central Asian illumination. The tarp is blue with a semy of possibly gold stars, has black rope stress patches at the ends, and is held up with red ropes and red poles. A blue tarp that is 7.5ft deep and 13 ft wide. A semy of white 8 pointed voided stars are being painted on surface.
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Got a scroll for my tents/encampments, and I got started working on my Kalkan heraldic shield project.

#sca #MySca #TirRigh #AnTir
A scroll featuring a tent that incorporates details from my timurid disked bell. The scroll was for the Kingdom of An Tir's award for spiffy encampments. Its called the Righteous Rath. My kalkan shield project complete with the rattan reeds, a sample of winding techniques, and the 4/8 cotton warp spools in royal blue, black, white, and mustard yellow.
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I am starting a new project that is adjacent to my reed screens. Kalkans.

A small domed shield made of spiral bound reeds/rods. There are a lot of them in museums, but not a lot about how to make them. Researching museum photos and starting trials on binds techniques.

#sca #mysca #TirRigh #AnTir
A simple yet ornamental spiral bound kalkan shield in red and gold. A sampler of possible binding techniques for rods. Using blue and white embroidery thread.
October 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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So even before the next tent project I am going to jump ahead and do a blue awning for my disked bells encampment. Found what I think is a blue rectangle with decorations, red ropes, and poles. I think mine will be Azure, semi of 8 pointed voided stats argent.

#mysca #TirRigh #AnTir #tents
At the very top of this image is a wonderful blue rectangular cloth with decoration functioning as an aframe awning/low open ended tent. An extreme close-up of the awning.
September 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Made a tablero board using leftover reeds and indigo dyed wool roving.

#mysca #TirRigh #AnTir #indigo #reedscreen
A tablero board made of reeds and indigo dyed wool roving.
September 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I fully support CUPE and their continuation of job action.

No Work Without Pay!

#AirCanada can eat a bag of dicks!
August 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Finished my felted hat. Will eventually replace the band, but it will do for now. The next hat I make will require a proper hat block, as the pot i used ended up a tad too big.

#mysca #antir #tirrigh
Felted wool hat number 2
August 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Just another aging Gen X slipping orthotics into a pair of converse.

#genx #orthotics #converse
June 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Next possible tent could be based on this lovely example. Except no horses, and a yurt ring with poles I stead of a market umbrella.

#MySCA #TirRigh #AnTir #tents
This horse mounted tent in red and blue is adorable, and might be my next tent. Instead of a center pole design, the next tent will have a yurt ring, and vertical poles, much like in this illustration of a mongolian chegezi ger. I have enough red and yellow canvas from previous tents / fabric stash to make a small tent.
June 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM