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Mary Ostler
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Baba Yagas on-call plumber
A couple things from the pottery classes I took. We were encouraged to experiment with multi layer glazes.

#pottery
February 13, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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
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
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
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
January 26, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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
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
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
January 11, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Redoing my glaze tile board. New tiles and a pretty frame cause why not.

#pottery #ceramics #NERD
January 2, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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
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
My favorite inspirational poster.
December 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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
If you see this, post your art with animals.
#ArtShare #animals
December 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Got a scroll for my tents/encampments, and I got started working on my Kalkan heraldic shield project.

#sca #MySca #TirRigh #AnTir
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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
October 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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
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
Made a tablero board using leftover reeds and indigo dyed wool roving.

#mysca #TirRigh #AnTir #indigo #reedscreen
September 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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
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
August 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Just another aging Gen X slipping orthotics into a pair of converse.

#genx #orthotics #converse
June 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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
June 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM