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📍Bilbao, España

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Hands off the #madleen
This is a war crime.
#freepalestine #stopthegenocide #freedomflotilla
June 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Left the US for chiller vibes in December so if you, too, would like a break from the chaos over there, here are 3 mushroom cat bowls that just came out of the kiln today.

#pottery #ceramics #cottagecore #mushrooms
Three cat bowl feeders are side by side in a horizontal line- from left to right. They are yellow, orange and red mushrooms atop a white base. They are all polka dot designs on the mushroom caps with white glaze and then their color. The tops of the mushrooms are the bowls and they are tilted forward a bit to help with easier feeding. The ridges of the bowls are a bit wavy. The stems of the mushrooms have vertical ridges as well. They are on top of a wood table.
June 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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First go at painting furniture went pretty well, I’d say!

#cottagecore #handpainted #IKEAhacks
Photo of a painted bench in a hallway. The bench is at an angle so you can fully see the short side of the bench on the left and the long side going down the hallway. The bench is natural wood at top where one would sit. The bench is painted with a dark black-green background with a design of various mushrooms, daisies, and plants. Some mushrooms are larger with red tips and white circles in them. The other mushrooms are either in twos or threes and are smaller- the caps are painted in a burnt orange and red-orange color. There are mint green plants with leaves, mustard yellow small leaves, and forest green leaves. The daisies are white with yellow center. The pattern is all over the bench like a wallpaper design with repeating elements. Photo of a painted bench on top of the table- all you can see is the short side of the bench for the details of the design on one side. The side of the bench is painted with a dark black-green background with a design of various mushrooms, daisies, and plants. Some mushrooms are larger with red tips and white circles in them. The other mushrooms are either in twos or threes and are smaller- the caps are painted in a burnt orange and red-orange color. There are mint green plants with leaves, mustard yellow small leaves, and forest green leaves. The daisies are white with yellow center. The pattern is all over the bench like a wallpaper design with repeating elements.
May 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Little in progress video of my mushroom cat bowl. Read that elevated and tilted bowls are the best for cats, so what better than a little #cottagecore mushroom vibes? Underglaze painted on Greenware.
#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery
May 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Really loving the way these bowls have been turning out with the glaze combo and rustic vibe going on.
#pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky
Two handmade bowls are side by side on a counter, slightly angled so one on the right is slightly farther back and the one on the left is slightly more forward. The two bowls have a base of a seafoam green glaze. Around the rim a tealish blue is dripping down on the inside and outside of the bowls, with an overlap of a darker green. Inside the bowls are darker blue speckles. The glaze has a “rustic” look in various places inside and outside where some of the nature clay peaks through, that are darker around the edges due to rubbing fingers on random areas of the glaze before firing.
May 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Love how this plate turned out! Been trying some new things-like using these flower stamps. Blue underglaze with clear glaze on top of white clay body.

#pottersofbluesky #ceramics
An arm comes from the left holding up a plate against a cement background. The plate is cream colored with a rim of stamped blue flowers (just the outlines of the flowers are colored in blue), as they are impressions from stamps in the clay.
May 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Love how this bowl turned out!

#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery
A bowl of cereal topped with strawberries sits on a wooden table. The cereal are little yellow balls. The bowl is lighter seafoam green on the bottom with the rim a darker blue the drips and mixes into a darker green in some places. Behind the bowl is a small carton of milk and a white coffee cup that says “wifey” on it.
April 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Obsessed with how this mixing bowl I made came out!
Made with a slab and mold, glaze effect is from rubbing my fingers in a few spots to get this look.

#pottery #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #handmade
A hand is holding up a mixing bowl so you can see the side of the bowl and inside. On the right is a little spout/divot for easy pouring of liquid. The bowl has a seafoam green glaze inside and almost down to the bottom of the bowl, with the bottom left bare white clay body. The glaze in parts has a darker brown/grey streaked effect, kind of like rusting metal in some parts and along the rim.
April 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Made a little plate that turned out cool recently!
#pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky
Place setting on a wooden table with a ceramic plate, cup, and a white stainless steel mug. The plate is seafoam green with darker blue polka dots- along one edge also has some blue that bleeds into the seafoam geeen. On the plate are strawberries without their tops, cut in half on the left third of the plate. On the right/bottom third of the plate are blueberries. On the top third of the plate are plain Madeline’s. Above the plate is a ceramic handmade cup with seafoam green glaze (same as the plate) that goes almost all the way down the side and stops a few centimeters from the bottom, leaving the bare clay. Next to the cup on the right is a stainless stell Yeti mug, white, with the word “Wifey” engraved that allows the stainless steel to show through. Handmade ceramic plate being held up so you’re looking straight at it. The hand is the bottom left of the picture. The plate is seafoam green with darker blue polka dots- along one edge also has some blue that bleeds into the seafoam geeen and has swirled and mixed to have a darker green in those places. Handmade ceramic plate being held up so you’re looking at the side angle of the plate/outside wall of the plate. The hand is the bottom left of the picture. The plate is seafoam green with darker blue polka dots- along one edge also has some blue that bleeds into the seafoam geeen and has swirled and mixed to have a darker green in those places. You can see below another plate made with white/oat colored glaze that has some Madeline’s on it.
April 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Made some cute little cups.

#pottery #pottersofbluesky #ceramics
A handmade cup is in the center of the photo being held by a hand. The hand comes up from the bottom of the photo with the thumb behind the cup. You can see the middle finger curls around the bottom of the cup. The handmade cup has glaze which is the same color on the inside and outside: a light seafood green color. The glaze doesn’t go all the way to the bottom of the cup, leaving about 4 centimeters of bare unglazed white clay. Inside the cup is water that looks dark green with a ray of white reflection. The background of the photo is a window looking out to the apartments across the street.
March 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Fam I tried new things with this black clay that has a lot of manganese in it and then did half with clear glaze. Been doing a lemon test and still not sure it’s food safe. The texture on the clear glaze is also like sandpaper so not the most food/plate friendly. #pottery #pottersofbluesky
It is a picture of a handmade plate being held up by a hand so you see in the bottom left a thumb and the red sleeve of a sweater. The plate is large and takes up most of the photo. The bottom half of the plate is white, but it is not a straight line more like a wave. The white part also has black splatter dots of glaze. The top half is done with clear glaze so looks like black clay.
March 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Little beginner paintings to brighten your timeline! Can anyone tell what the right one is from?
Slowly getting some more art on the walls to our new place.
#paintingstogogh #art #paintings
Two paintings on canvases are sitting atop a wooden table leaning against a wall. The right painting is of pine/evergreen trees. This painting, from top to bottom starts with lighter green trees, to darker blues and then to almost black/dark trees in the foreground. The painting on the right is of a sunset - with a bright yellow sun on the top middle. There is a river and then mountains on either side with a few trees. The sky is blue, then darker purple, then pink and then orange (lesbian flag colors lol). The river/water reflects these colors. Across the sun are two figures flying- one of Aapa a sky Bison and the other of Aang from the Last Airbender.
March 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Little mushroom spoon rest is finally done! Slowly but surely our cottage-core rustic vibes in the kitchen are coming along.
#pottersofblueksy
#ceramics #pottery
Photo of a spoon rest that is shaped like a classic mushroom that has a red cap with white polka dots and a red stem. The picture is of the spoon rest laying flat on a tan colored shelf. The cap is 1/3 the size of the spoon rest and has bright red gaze with white polka dots of varying sizes that are mostly circular with some small variations. The cap is circular but oblong and flared more at the end like a mushroom cap. The stem is white and about 2/3 of the size of the object. The glazes are shiny.
March 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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#Caturday vibes with this absolute cutie where belly rubs are never a trap.
In the center of the photo is a black cat lying on his back. His body curves to the left where his head is, looking to the left of the photo. His two front paws are under his head with one paw curled slightly towards his face with his dark purple toe beans visible. There is a tattooed arm (mine) outstretched and rubbing his belly. I have an opal ring on my right ring finger and an Apple Watch with grey band. The cat’s back legs are outstretched on either side of my arm. In the top right of the photo you can see the butt, feet and tail of one of his sisters. White feet, pink toe beans and calico-tortoise coloring. Above his head to the top of the photo is his sister who is a grey cat curled up into a ball. Underneath everyone is our bedding- a cotton woven blanket with multiple colors lil pale yellows, burnt oranges and reds- and our bedding of grey-green.
February 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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My frog sponge holder is finally complete!!! Not the happiest with the glaze job but for my first one I think they are pretty dang cute! What should we name them?
#ceramics #pottery #cottagecore #frog #pottersofbluesky
In the center image is a ceramic frog sponge holder. It is facing slightly off center, looking to the left of the frame. The frog has a giant open mouth (big enough for a sponge of course) that has slightly flared edges at the top (so not a circle) and bottom is flares out. It is supposed to look like it is smiling. The frog has two oblong/round shaped eyes on the top of its head. It has four feet- you can just see the edges of the feet on the left and have a better view of the feet on the right of the image. The inside of the mouth is yellow, belly is yellow, feet are green. Top of the frog has yellow polka dots. The eyes are white with black pupils. It is sitting on a bunch of newspaper!
February 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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My forever valentine! Got to explore #Mundaka in northern Spain yesterday for the first time.
A photograph of a selfie of two people looking into the camera. On the left of the photo is one person whose arm stays in the bottom right of the photo and head almost goes to the top of the photo. It is of Alicia my wife. She is wearing a bright blue windbreaker that is open and underneath is a teal 3/4 Zip sweater that is also open. The zipper on the sweater is Orange. The sweater has a bright teal blue strip. She is smiling with a mostly closed mouth and looking at the camera. Her should length dark brown hair is framing her face. She has white skin with pink nose and ears from the wind. She has light blue eyes. She is wearing a backwards white baseball cap. Next to her is me looking forward at the camera. I am wearing a forest green hoodie. My arm goes towards the front and out of the frame as it is holding the camera. My sweater is slightly unzipped revealing a white tshirt underneath. I am wearing sunglasses to the lenses are dark black and the frames for them are green patterned. I am wearing a backwards baseball cap and smiling with my teeth showing. I have white skin and light brown/blonde eyebrows. In the background of the two people is an ocean scene. Right behind Alicia and to her left is a big mossy rock. You can see some green hills/small mountains in the distance. In between is the ocean and it is bright blue/turquoise.
February 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Froggie sponge holder has been bisqued fired and painted with underglaze. Has since also received clear glaze and is now ready for the final kiln journey! Let’s hope it turns out well.🤞🏻 #ceramics #pottersofbluesky
On a medium grain wood table sits a ceramic frog in the center. The frog is looking straight into the camera. It has a very wide open mouth in a big round opening with the top edges flared out so it looks like it is smiling. It is big enough to fit a small sponge. The inside of the mouth is pale yellow glaze with a matte looking finish. The frog is painted in the rest with pale green matte finish with yellow polka dots on the top. You can see two feet under the mouth pointed forward and two in the back pointing left and right. The frog has big eyes on the top of its head that are painted with white circles and black dots in the middle. In the front of the frog is the end of a black paintbrush. Behind the frog you can see half of a wet yellow sponge. Behind the frog are various other bisque-ware shapes -a cylinder and some found vases flared at the bottom.
February 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Pink toe beans & silly sleep positions.
#cats #toebeans #greycats
A grey cat is lying asleep on a bed in a curled up position like a shrimp, on her side. The cat’s head is to the left with one paw covering her nose, and another front paw stretch out in front. Her head is nuzzled into her back legs with pink toe beans visible from one of the back legs. Her tail is over one of the legs. She is lying on two blankets so the background looks a bit split in half. On the left side is a light grey quilted blanket and on the right is a colorful cotton woven blanket with frayed edges. It is white, black, blue, green, red and pink tones :)
February 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I have only made plates and bowls on the wheel and trying hand built ones. I added this foot yesterday to my black clay plate series and I’m thinking it’s looking pretty good instead of doing a wheel trimmed one!
#pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky
An upside down plate made of black clay is sitting on a white and black checkered towel. The bowl takes up 2/3 of the image from the top right. The entire bowl is not in the whole picture as it is cut off from the top right for a small portion. The focus is on the raised “foot” of the plate a short raised circle “rim-like” element to elevate the plate off the table and help with glazing. It is smooth and shiny and you can see some faint finger and sponge marks from smoothing the clay. At the top of the photo there are some tools on the table in the distance.
February 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Working on this mushroom shaped spoon rest! Going for a cute woodland vibe in our new kitchen.

#pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky
A mushroom shaped gray clay body sitting on newspaper sitting on aight grey wood table. The mushroom is round at the top with a stem. The whole piece is about the size of two hands. There is a thin clay border all around the clay except for the very bottom of the stem. It is smooth and compressed. A mushroom shaped gray clay body sitting on newspaper sitting on aight grey wood table. The mushroom is round at the top with a stem. The whole piece is about the size of two hands. There is a thin clay border all around the clay except for the very bottom of the stem. It is smooth and compressed. On top of the mushroom clay body is a large wooden spoon for cooking. The top of the spoon is square shaped. It is light tan wood.
February 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Oh I heard we do #Caturday on Bluesky, too! I’m missing my babies and get to see them this week after not seeing them for a whole month as I set up our life in Spain. I hope they like being Spanish cats now. Quincy the dog thinks she is a cat so hopefully it’s okay she is in the picture.
Three cats and a dog are all sleeping on a bed together. The bed has white sheets and a blanked with two big frogs on it. The blankets are wrinkled. In the bottom left there is a Black cat with his eyes open. Going clockwise a grey cat is sleeping on her side. Then there is the black dog sleeping in the top right. In bottom right is a tortoise/calico cat also sleeping on her side.
February 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Making some more plates with the black clay today- these will be smaller. Going for a set of two larger and smaller plates, some bowls and cups for a trial of this black clay body dinner set. Before moving to Spain all our dishes were handmade by me so trying to fill our new apartment 💜
Photo of two newly constructed plates with a rim. The plates are side by side horizontally and both are on a cloth with white with black checkered stripes. The plate in the white has my hand in it to show for scale- the plate is slightly bigger than my hand. Hand is relatively messy with black clay. Can see the corner of my teal sweater on my are as well.
January 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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I’ve never tried working with black clay before and only made plates on the wheel. Excited to see how these trials ones turn out and where the clay leads me! #ceramics #pottery
Two round dinner plates with black clay on a table. The black clay slabs are cut into a circle and each on a mould of a dinner plate and on newspaper. They are next to each other horizontally.
January 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Ready for the kiln. Is it a fox? A cat? You can decide 😅 this little canister with the lid is too cute. Not sure what I want to use it for yet but I’m happy with it. #pottery #ceramics
January 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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We can only hope my frog sponge holder survives the bisque firing soon. It’s too cute and might be my favorite pottery thing I’ve made in awhile.
#pottersofbluesky
January 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM