Stephanie Butler
@sixtoesstudio.bsky.social
Artist, Educator in California.
Primary Creative at Six Toes Studio.
Primary Creative at Six Toes Studio.
Sculpture 99% finished. Traps, 2025, Ceramic and mixed media.
August 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Sculpture 99% finished. Traps, 2025, Ceramic and mixed media.
Summer is dwindling for our household as we teachers turn to embrace a new year. May this shift be gentle, positive, and refreshingly professional for all.
August 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Summer is dwindling for our household as we teachers turn to embrace a new year. May this shift be gentle, positive, and refreshingly professional for all.
A student glazed the bottom of their work, left no note to use a stilt in the kiln. It was a lucky, lucky break - pun intended - that it came free of the kiln shelf.
July 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
A student glazed the bottom of their work, left no note to use a stilt in the kiln. It was a lucky, lucky break - pun intended - that it came free of the kiln shelf.
Timely Local news in our sanctuary city has been vital to staying safe and knowing where and how to help our neighbors. Daniel has been running and funding The Santanero on his own for a few years from his wages as he works his way through college! Read his work, help him grow. www.santanero.org
July 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Timely Local news in our sanctuary city has been vital to staying safe and knowing where and how to help our neighbors. Daniel has been running and funding The Santanero on his own for a few years from his wages as he works his way through college! Read his work, help him grow. www.santanero.org
Aerial view 2 of 3, slow.
July 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Aerial view 2 of 3, slow.
Top view, one of three.
July 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Top view, one of three.
It’s working. Dry fit on a ceramic sculpture.
June 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It’s working. Dry fit on a ceramic sculpture.
Getting closer to finished.
June 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Getting closer to finished.
Tuesday was a very active day locally for LARPing kidnappers in our neighborhood. The bastards timed their visits with the bus schedules as people were arriving home from work.
June 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Tuesday was a very active day locally for LARPing kidnappers in our neighborhood. The bastards timed their visits with the bus schedules as people were arriving home from work.
Keeping on. Tired. It’s hard to rest in Santa Ana lately.
June 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Keeping on. Tired. It’s hard to rest in Santa Ana lately.
The glaze firing went well overall, some cleanup to do. Continuing on with the sculpture, a little tired. We’ve had too much going on in Santa Ana since the raids started, and it hasn’t stopped since the 9th? So none of us have gotten much sleep around here.
June 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The glaze firing went well overall, some cleanup to do. Continuing on with the sculpture, a little tired. We’ve had too much going on in Santa Ana since the raids started, and it hasn’t stopped since the 9th? So none of us have gotten much sleep around here.
Continuing the sculpture in progress: I got to make a bottle rack type tool for the next part, but fired in the kiln too soon and too quickly. Yes, it exploded to smithereens! 🤞 for a successful slow fire today so I can wrap this series up and share it.
June 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Continuing the sculpture in progress: I got to make a bottle rack type tool for the next part, but fired in the kiln too soon and too quickly. Yes, it exploded to smithereens! 🤞 for a successful slow fire today so I can wrap this series up and share it.
It doesn’t feel right to us to leave the immediate community to protest because of what’s been happening this week. So, we are throwing a FRONT PORCH PROTEST and will decorate our porch with our signs, our CALIFORNIA flag, chairs, table, a cooler full of water and refreshments, music, devices 1/🧵
June 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It doesn’t feel right to us to leave the immediate community to protest because of what’s been happening this week. So, we are throwing a FRONT PORCH PROTEST and will decorate our porch with our signs, our CALIFORNIA flag, chairs, table, a cooler full of water and refreshments, music, devices 1/🧵
Parts of the in progress sculpture: Camus fly trap leaves. The round ends will support the traps.
June 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Parts of the in progress sculpture: Camus fly trap leaves. The round ends will support the traps.
Three lousy millimeters and but a few inches of space to move are what stand between a broken pug mill, and one that will function for another forty years. Leverage, not strength.
June 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Three lousy millimeters and but a few inches of space to move are what stand between a broken pug mill, and one that will function for another forty years. Leverage, not strength.
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If as President you answer “I don’t know” when asked if you’ll follow the Constitution, you have violated your oath of office and should be removed.
May 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
If as President you answer “I don’t know” when asked if you’ll follow the Constitution, you have violated your oath of office and should be removed.
When dating, we used to tell each other “you’re my favorite person”. We beamed when we heard it as dialogue in a film we watched. We still say it to each other, and to our kids, and our friends. Now I hear it from my boss and friend. Have you got favorite people too?
May 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
When dating, we used to tell each other “you’re my favorite person”. We beamed when we heard it as dialogue in a film we watched. We still say it to each other, and to our kids, and our friends. Now I hear it from my boss and friend. Have you got favorite people too?
Big Terra cotta pots
April 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Big Terra cotta pots
Carnivorous plants of sorts. #workinprogress #sculpture #ceramics #3dprinting #uvresin #cursive #penmanship #redclayorangehands
April 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Carnivorous plants of sorts. #workinprogress #sculpture #ceramics #3dprinting #uvresin #cursive #penmanship #redclayorangehands
“Project season” has got a hold of me lately: sculpture, furniture refinishing, antiquing, and being adjacent to others’ fond reminiscences. All these activities encourage an appreciation for what was, how things worked, the context of systems, and also inspire longing to incorporate it into now.
April 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“Project season” has got a hold of me lately: sculpture, furniture refinishing, antiquing, and being adjacent to others’ fond reminiscences. All these activities encourage an appreciation for what was, how things worked, the context of systems, and also inspire longing to incorporate it into now.
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I didn't write my first book until I was 31. I now have over 30 novels and dozens of comics in print. Do you know how old you will be by the time you write that book of your heart? The same age you would be if you didn't write it, but YOU WROTE A BOOK. It's never too late.
March 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I didn't write my first book until I was 31. I now have over 30 novels and dozens of comics in print. Do you know how old you will be by the time you write that book of your heart? The same age you would be if you didn't write it, but YOU WROTE A BOOK. It's never too late.
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They could have just voted for Harris and given the money to charity and taken the tax deduction 🤷♀️
March 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
They could have just voted for Harris and given the money to charity and taken the tax deduction 🤷♀️
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Ernest Hemingway wrote this in 1935…
March 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Ernest Hemingway wrote this in 1935…
Carnivorous plants … I get to tinker with the kiln this weekend. While these came out o.k., it took 20 hours to reach temp., should’ve taken 5 hours. These can be so much better than this. Re-glaze/re-fire time after I find and fix the kiln issue.
March 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Carnivorous plants … I get to tinker with the kiln this weekend. While these came out o.k., it took 20 hours to reach temp., should’ve taken 5 hours. These can be so much better than this. Re-glaze/re-fire time after I find and fix the kiln issue.