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Five Goblins Pottery
@fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social
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Five Goblins is the dream of potter, Rennie, and LARPer Nicole Caruso. She makes every day art for everyday life.
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I started playing around with toroids recently, and this sculptural vase is one of those experiments. I love himb, but he's definitely a step on the journey of this idea. Cone 10 gas reduction, expect to see more like him as I work through this idea.

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A stoneware toroid vase with a sculpture of a curious octopus draped across it. Glazed in black and luminous blues. A stoneware toroid vase with a sculpture of a curious octopus draped across it. Glazed in black and luminous blues. A stoneware toroid vase with a sculpture of a curious octopus draped across it. Glazed in black and luminous blues.
October 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I am not supposed to be working right now, but I feel bad about neglecting social media lately. Have a payoff shot and no one tell my partner I posted.

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A handmade teaset sitting on a wooden crate. It is made of black stoneware clay. Dripping fire designs are carved into the clay, and a rich red-orange glaze contrasts the flames with the raw black clay of the negative space. The teapot has a long elephant trunk spout and a tall domed lid with a sculpted flame knob. There are four matching teacups, also with carved and glazed flame designs.
October 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Okay,okay, not end of day but end of weekend. I carved them that day but then let clay distract me from my social media duties. Still working on Fire and Earth, mugs this time. I try to group all my black clay pieces into one chunk of a few weeks right before I clean my wheel and studio. #pottery
Two black clay teapots at the greenware stage. They are both carved with flame motifs on top and bottom, as well as on the spout and lid. You can see part of my untidy studio in the background, please pretend you don't.
September 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Making teapots this week -- I wanted to document the process of a Fire and Earth teapot. This isn't carved yet, check back by the end of the day. 🤣

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Two lidded jars made of black clay sit on a wareboard. Complex teapot spouts are hardening while being supported with sponges nearby. A black clay teapot having its spout attached. It sits in the potter's lap. Two black clay teapots with handles and spouts attached on a wareboard. The attachments are supported by studio sponges while they dry and harden.
September 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Fuck it, hot chocolate time! Using this really cool mug I got at the Renn faire from @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social that’s based on historical mug designs! Ceramics in archaeology are so fun, pottery that’s used and loved by people during their everyday lives, and we can do the same!
September 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Working on a commission for @faeble-larp.bsky.social ! These wonderful people are putting together one of the taverns that we'll all be hanging out at, and I am really looking forward to some mead with friends!

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A leatherhard mug made of white clay. Carving guidelines have been sketched in for a chevron. Inside the chevron are the words 'honeyhand's mead' and a bee has been sketched in as well.
August 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I raku'ed!!
An altered form raku vase. It is glazed in reduced copper matte glaze on the bottom and a reduced copper glossy glaze on top. A raku fired vase in coppers, golds, and blues. There is a dramatic soot mark on the bottom third of the vase.
August 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Every time I decide to quit this runny drippy mess of a layering glaze the kiln spits out one of these and I take it back. It's a toxic relationship but the highs are so good.
A stoneware mug made of Standard 112 speckled clay. It is glazed in matte black, olive green, and powder blue. A stoneware mug made of Standard 112 speckled clay. It is glazed in matte black, olive green, and powder blue.
August 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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New witch in the All Witches Welcome series! Can't believe it took me this long to make this one -- I wonder what other obvious witch is lurking?

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A stoneware mug. A white slip has been brushed across a speckled tan clay body, and the words "Crystal Witch" are carved into the raw white slip. Glaze has been inlaid into the lettering. It is glazed in floating blue glaze and layered with a frosty clear. A speckled tan clay mug, glazed in floating blue and layered with a frosty clear.
July 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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He made it home from @drachenfest-us.bsky.social and through both firings. Guess I have to keep him now.
A froggy little ceramic monster incense holder. Glazed in glossy blue-black.
July 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Bluesky #pottery peeps I need your help! I am doing my first #raku firing workshop 8/3. I have to get 10 pieces made and bisqued before then, bonus difficulty points for trying to get restocked for my next show at the same time. What are good forms for novice raku? Tips? Tricks? Pic For Algo.
A hand-built incense stick holder. It is unfired light brown clay, and sculpted to look like a little froggy monster head. Its tongue is lolling out of its mouth as the ash catcher. You can see a burned-out incense stick sticking up from the top of its head like a horn.
July 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I have my own studio, but I still am a member of my local community studio. Every so often, someone donates buckets of mystery glaze to the studio. This gorgeous purple was marked "pink", so this was a wonderful kiln surprise.

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A small handleless cup made of white stoneware clay. It is glazed in robin egg blue and a gloriously crazed purple A small handleless cup made of white stoneware clay. It is glazed in robin egg blue and a gloriously crazed purple A small handleless cup made of white stoneware clay. It is glazed in robin egg blue and a gloriously crazed purple
July 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Where have I been since getting home from Drachenfest? In the studio! I have been head-down in the clay and I will be starting rolling some kilns at the end of this week or the start of next. Next show is Warriors In Bloom near Richmond VA - come touch the pots!

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Shelves in a pottery studio full of greenware mugs.
July 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Advancer kiln shelves and a diamond grinding disc saved this mug. I am so fortunate to have loved ones and patrons who helped me get my Advancers. Corderite shelves, even with kiln wash, would have fused with the mug and cracked the bottom.

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The bottom of a mug that has had glaze run down off the pot and pool underneath it it. The glaze is bubbled and cracked and sharp and dangerous. A stoneware mug, glazed in blue with a black slip-trailed dragon. The glaze has run off the foot of the mug and formed a sharp, dangerous crust at the bottom. The bottom of the same mug, which is now sanded clean. It shows the smooth white clay. A stoneware mug, glazed in blue. There's a slip trailed black clay dragon.
June 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I feel this in my soul so hard.

Translation for non-Spanish speakers: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade"
These are the lemons life gave me
espiasordo.bsky.social El espía seroserosiete @espiasordo.bsky.social · Jun 20
“Si la vida te da limones, haz limonada”
Los limones que me da la vida:
June 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The rat tracks mug is out!

I had pet rats for around 6 years and they make the best pets. Smart, loving, trainable. Only flaw is that they only live for 2-3 years. This little rat is painted as a hooded rat in honor of one of my girls past.

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A stoneware mug glazed in matte black and glossy ocean blue. Red rat footprints are carved in a winding path around the mug. A tiny sculpture of a white rat with a brown head and a pink tail sits on the handle as a thumbrest. A stoneware mug glazed in matte black and glossy ocean blue. Red rat footprints are carved in a winding path around the mug. A tiny sculpture of a white rat with a brown head and a pink tail sits on the handle as a thumbrest. A stoneware mug glazed in matte black and glossy ocean blue. Red rat footprints are carved in a winding path around the mug. A tiny sculpture of a white rat with a brown head and a pink tail sits on the handle as a thumbrest.
June 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Headed home from the VA ren faire. This dragon nightlight sold to a couple doing their nursery in a dragon theme. 🥰😭🥰 I love getting to, in a small way, be part of people's intimate and important moments. Art brings us all together.

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A stoneware nightlight. It is cylindrical and a dragon breathing fire is carved such that light from a hidden bulb spills out. It is glazed in a lustrous shino and a red shino.
June 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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More new glaze combos! My matte black studio glaze pairs super well with both Plum and Blue Monday (by Opulence), and my studio blue likes Blue Monday in the most lovely runny way

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May 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Second teacup payoff! This gorgeous teaset went home with a Faire patron this weekend, but it will be forever memorialized. Two more teacup reveals left, but they'll have to wait for next weekend when I go back to the fairesite.

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A stoneware teaset with a teapot and four teacups. They are glazed in a soft blue-green celadon. Cups and pot are carved with roses and leaves.
May 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Teacup payoff! I made teacups for each of the teapots I made this winter, but the teacup kiln didn't get run until last weekend. This Fire and Earth teapot looks even better accompanied by its teacups in my opinion (I am slightly biased).

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A teapot and four teacups. They are made of raw black clay with carved and glazed flame shapes.
May 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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May 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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I'm in the studio working on my custom and commission list for @drachenfest-us.bsky.social ! This little rat tracks mug is too cute, especially with the little friend on the handle.

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A clay mug at leather hard stage. There are stylized rat tracks carved on it A clay mug at leather hard stage. There are stylized rat tracks carved on it A clay mug at leather hard stage. There are stylized rat tracks carved on it and a little sculpture of a rat on the handle.
May 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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More new glaze combos -- this pair are studio glazes with Opulence's Blue Monday over them. Super runny, but the kind of runny that you can plan for. I love both of these and will be doing more of them.
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Stoneware mug with "Bard" carved on it. It is glazed in three different shades of blue in a gradient. A stoneware mug with "Swamp Witch" carved on it. It is glazed in blue and pale green A stoneware mug. It is glazed in blue streams of color over pale green. Stoneware mug. It is glazed in three different shades of blue in a gradient.
May 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Hi there! I have a question-- I recently read an article from WRIC that quoted you as saying that if a bill to repeal VA's anti-labor "Right to Work" law hit your desk you would not sign it. Can you explain your reasoning behind this decision?
May 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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This one's a commission, but check out this new glaze combination! I need to do some Disaster Bi mugs in this.
A stoneware mug glazed in blue and purple. "Soup Hag" is carved on a speckled white clay background.
May 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM