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Ann Scranton
@annsy.bsky.social
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PNW potter, baker, knitter, lefty church lady, mom of a teenager. Trying to love my neighbor but dang, it’s hard these days! She/her. Aka Vanilla Bean Ceramics!
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AND they send you free stickers!!
A sheet of Pocky-themed stickers (plus some stickers from other products that the company makes)
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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When you’re an adult you can just order a big ol’ box of Pocky straight from the company! No one can stop you!
Boxes of multipacks of different flavors of Pocky - including a box of giant Pocky! - lined up on a table
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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We got a seat like this and a little step stool. The small seat made it less scary for him to get onto the toilet, he didn’t feel like he was going to fall in. And it didn’t require an adult to put a separate kid seat on every time.
Toilet that shows a small kid-sized seat that folds down on top of the adult-sized seat.
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I mean, it was approximately this era, so
4-5 year old curly redheaded child, blowing bubbles. The picture is from the early 1980s.
October 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Well, this is exactly the sort of thing I love to see on an official government website. www.hud.gov#openModal
A screenshot of a modal on hud.gov that says, “The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people.”
September 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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It doesn’t help with the intentional tearing-down of the systems that help keep us safe, of course, but I have found this app to be very useful for getting informed of outbreaks/recalls/etc! Pictures of products, map of affected states, all easy to see at a glance. Not free but worth it to me.
Screenshot of “Food Recalls & Alerts” app in App Store
September 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I got my gilded little dalahäst trinket dish back from the kiln, and I love it so!

#pottery
A small square trinket dish, made from a speckled creamy white clay. It has a 4x4 pattern of small black dala horses on it. The rim of the dish and one of the dala horses are shiny gold.
September 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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(This is me but with pottery)
A four-panel comic. First panel: a red brain sits on a character’s head, saying happily, “idea! Idea! Idea!” Second panel: character brandishes a pencil and says, “awesome! Time to draw!” Third panel: brain says, “no. No draw.” Fourth panel: brain says, “only idea.”
July 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Thanks!! Glaze colors inspired by this dress, which I’m sure you recognize, let’s see if I can get it close!
Zoomed-in shot of a floor-length skirt that has bright pink details on a pale aqua background Zoomed-in shot of a floor-length skirt that has bright pink details on a pale aqua background
July 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Going outside my comfort zone at the pottery studio with this big vase! I almost never carve things, and when I do it’s usually simple geometric stuff. I don’t ever freehand things like this! (There are already parts that didn’t turn out the way I wanted them to, but that’s the way it goes 🤷‍♀️)
July 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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I am getting pressure to use AI at work, and I DON’T WANT TO. I can think for myself! I want to learn how to make excel do the thing I need it to do, and clarify my own thinking in the process!!

I find myself thinking the last lines of this a lot.
A tumbler post and follow-up, both by the same user: ohcorny “it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.” ohcorny “i wisely turned off the notes on this when it was at 700 but oh my god stop telling me what you "just" use it for in the notes shut the fuck up shut the fuck up I AM NOT A CATHOLIC PRIEST, I DO NOT ABSOLVE YOU. WRITE YOUR OWN EMAILS.”
June 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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(No, I am not kidding 😂)
A screenshot of Dropbox search results, showing a file called “corny jokes sorted.xlsx”
June 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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A screenshot of two tumblr posts by ohcorny, that read: “it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list. i wisely turned off the notes on this when it was at 700 but oh my god stop telling me what you "just" use it for in the notes shut the fuck up shut the fuck up I AM NOT A CATHOLIC PRIEST, I DO NOT ABSOLVE YOU. WRITE YOUR OWN EMAILS.”
May 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Made a lil cake for a friend this weekend

(ok it isn’t little)
A two-tiered heart-shaped wedding cake on a silver platter. The cake is frosted all over with pale pink icing, and there’s bright red and purple piping over that - borders and swags and shells - and a few white pearls. It says “til death” in red on top of the cake.
April 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Happy rainbow egg salad day (week?) to all who celebrate! 😂
A bowl of multicolored dyed eggs
April 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I didn’t make any semlor this year - bread or ceramic - but here are the teeny ceramic ones I made last year (they’re pendants!) and both kinds that I made the year before. Happy Fat Tuesday! #ceramics #pottery #semlor #fattuesday
Three very small ceramic semlor bun necklaces on an adult hand. Two ceramic semlor and one edible, real semla, on a napkin.
March 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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birthday! at the pottery studio 🥳

(Also: finally glazed some pots! Got some lovely drips that miraculously stayed off the kiln shelf, too)

#pottery #handmade #clay
Two mugs, greyish and matte, freshly made out of clay. A pile of ceramic work: a couple of green textured platters platters, two white trinket trays with dala horses printed on them, a blue textured mug, and a drippy blue-green bowl.
February 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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I signed up to do church coffee hour today, because I LOVE baking for Valentine’s Day. Which is funny because my husband and I have never done much for it! But I love a theme, so. I made probably the prettiest sugar cookies I’ve ever made, and hidden-heart cake. And blondies.
Heart shaped sugar cookies, decorated with swirled icing in pink, white, yellow, blue, and purple, arranged in an array on a circular plate. A table with trays of heart-themed treats set out on it, along with heart-themed napkins and table runner. Also, a vase of Lego flowers. Slices of chocolate cake that have a red-pink-white heart in the center of each slice. The cake slices are laid out in rows on a square platter.
February 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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💕Hearts hearts hearts! 💕 I love the Valentine’s Day aesthetic, for some reason, so my pottery is all hearts this time of year 🥰

This platter will get underglaze added to the hearts once it’s been bisque fired!
Oval platter with rows of hearts embossed on it. The tray is made of clay and hasn’t been fired yet.
January 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Cloud and sun breads*, getting ready to become French toast

*challah and pandoro, respectively
Slices is bread laid out on an oven rack. On the left, challah slices that look like clouds. On the right, enormous pandoro slices that look like suns.
January 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Finally made it back to the pottery studio today after months - burnout + vestibular neuritis (which has interfered with driving) have kept me away, but it was so good to be back! And Finley (the neighborhood cat who has adopted the studio) remembered me 😊 #pottery
A freshly-made clay mug, sitting on a round board. The mug is grey with a heart pattern embossed into the soft clay. A grey-brown tabby cat with white paws sits on a work table at the pottery studio, his pink tongue captured mid-lick
January 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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And, finally, here’s the Christmas morning (cinnamon almond) coffee cake. Merry Christmas! 🎄
A coffee cake ring topped with almonds and cream cheese glaze
December 25, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Oatmeal cookies: iced
Oatmeal cookies with cinnamon icing drizzled on them
December 25, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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Peanut butter: blossomed
Peanut butter blossom cookies on a tray
December 25, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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Currently in progress:
A metal mixing bowl full of unwrapped Hershey kisses
December 25, 2024 at 5:18 AM