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Piper Pottery
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Middle of the U.S.-based artist growing food, kids, and a bunch of prairie plants
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I can’t keep track of days, but I can share my fave pottery pic of the week.

Take care of yourselves and do what you can with what you have.

Experimental bottle - hoping it turns out more forest floor than ocean floor after firing
Reddish clay bottle with little bits and patterns added around the neck that hopefully will look like moss after it’s glazed and fired
March 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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This very large bay leaf I grew
My hand holding the Very large bay leaf I grew.
March 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Day 33

Mugs with native leaf imprints

The plants are waking up, too 😉

#20plants #20pots #mugs #nativeplanta
Stacks of stoneware mugs, glazed in green with blue drips on top, and ovals with native leaf impressions on the front
March 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Day 32…probably

#wip tiny houses and little owls

They will be outta the kiln next week and I promise to post pics of the country is still here

#20days #20pots #tinyhouse #housingisahumanright
March 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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May you have a moment of rest before the work begins again
My tiny mama kitty sleeping on my favorite yellow pillow. She looks like a tiny Holstein cow.
March 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Day 31:
Bubbles

I LOVE making these bubble mugs - they are chaotic but sorta fun and they always turn out great.

And I’m very sorry if you have trypophobia.

Also shoutout to @kmacqq.bsky.social for the beautifully dyed quilt in the background

#20pots #30pots #allthepots #bubbleglaze
My hand holding a stoneware dimple cup with gray bubbles glazed onto it. The background is a dyed turquoise quilt.
March 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Day 30

A small collection of bottles - things are waking up

#20days #20pots #pottery #birdsandbees and snakes
Four stoneware bottles lined up on an old table, with a coiled snake, a bumblebee, a writhing snake, and another bee in white glaze designs
March 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Day 28
(I type this with a confidence I don’t feel)

Home

Making more of these tomorrow - everyone deserves one

#20pots but for longer, forever? #gardenpottery #pottersofbluesky
A tiny green-glazed stoneware house with three windows and a door, resting on a bed of mini sedum
March 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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I found gardening back in 2019 when I literally threw some seeds into some dirt outside the place I’d just moved to.
Now I have a big garden and even bigger plans for this year 🌱

This big mama is among the last of 2024 sweet potatoes, but she will live on this year! Her slips are growing!
My hand holding a pretty big sweet potato, from which the end has been cut off for growing slips (new potato plants for this year). Trays planted with sweet potato chunks are in the background. Tiny baby sweet potato leaves growing out of a chunk of sweet potato.
March 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Sending y’all love (even those angry vegans) 🌱

#callin #metta #meditation #teachdontpreach are they called #subskeets 😜
A tiny stoneware bird vase with a red heart glazed in its chest, and floral wings with yellow flowers, and blue and green glaze on the body and head respectively
March 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Day 27

Probably.

Dimple pitcher

These are a favorite of mine because they are a small and delightful way to make daily moments beautiful 💚
Stoneware pitcher with drippy glazes - aqua on base and browns, greens and light blue dripping from top, with just a few crystallized bits for fun. The sides have a dimple for holding.
March 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Many pots for many days

Day 25? Who knows…

I did plant lots of seeds today, so please enjoy this little group of prairie flower vases
Three stoneware vases all glazed similarly, with black necks, orange petals, and green leaves around the bases
February 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Endless days of pots.

Day 23: WIP owls getting their first layer of oxide wash “See Us”

#savetheowls #wippottery #potterysky #20days20pots but like forever
A row of textured owl slab pieces with “see us” stamped on mini slabs and attached to front, coated with iron oxide before getting more glazes and getting fired again
February 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Shall we make some plans to be a hero to Mr. Roger’s?

#beahero #mrrogers #seetheneed
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes. - Fred Rogers The quote is centered on a background of mushrooms growing on a felled oak.
February 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Let’s see, I suppose it’s technically Day 22

I choose this pot: Wood Fired Dimple Vessel

The wood kiln I bought in ‘23 to build & fire has been sold off for bricks - hope to figure out a new path to reduction firing here at my studio some day.

#potterysky #woodfire #crackleglaze #keepdreaming
Wood fired ceramic mug with heavy gray ash deposit on top, crackling a bit, fading down to a deep brick red. There is a dimple for your thumb.
February 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Some baby sweet potato slips for you - as a treat.
Partially buried sweet potato with the start of purple slips growing out of the top.
February 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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I’m missing my daily pottery posts. Maybe I could stick to one of those making challenges…
Or maybe I’d better just stick to pulling random pics off my camera roll.

Be safe out there, folks.

Day 22: Owls

#owlsky #potterysky #dailyritual #potterylife
Two tiny clay owls, one green and one red. The green one looks hopeful, or maybe just quizzical, while the red one is definitely made about something.
February 23, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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I find reading very therapeutic - usually more fantasy fiction and educational nonfiction than DIY, but I want to spend less time on The Internet.

And buying books may be the best feeling ever - I got these from a used bookstore because budgets 💵
A stack of books about growing & preserving food, using plants for dye and health, and one bread making cook book
February 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Our little bantam rooster, Alexander the Great, has taken to waiting in the coop for me to come down with food. The rest of the flock gets up with the sun, but this little dude is maxing and relaxing.
A small gray rooster with furry feet exits the coop leisurely now that breakfast is being served
February 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order…

Day 20: Welcome Home, I Guess

#potterschallenge #pottery #20pots #pottersofbluesky #tinyhouse #gardenhouse #angryfairy
Small stoneware house with an angry face, a white glazed roof, and welcome stamped above the door
February 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order…

Day 19: Home

#potterschallenge #pottery #20pots #pottersofbluesky #home #tinyhouse #hermit
Stoneware mini house posed next to a baby Japanese Maple and some pinecone, with a cute little moss yard and a pebble path to the door.
February 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order…

Day 18: Wood Fired Luminary

#potterschallenge #pottery #20pots #pottersofbluesky #woodfired #womenwhowoodfire #burnitdown
Pointer cylinder pot with carved openings, woodfired with gray and orange ash flash
February 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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This is where we are now, right??

I have good news and bad news - most of the book is blank.

#FAFO sucks, frankly, for everyone involved.

#pastfindingout
Bound art journal made using an old book called “Past Finding Out” by Dan E. L. Patch
February 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order…

Day 17: Basket

#potterschallenge #pottery #20pots #pottersofbluesky #maydaybasket #stonewarebasket I am actually a #basketcase
Stoneware speckled clay basket with rope handle, white flower underglaze transfer and white glaze, filled with dried straw flowers, sitting on vintage books
February 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order…

Day 16: Tiny House

#potterschallenge #pottery #20pots #pottersofbluesky #tinyhouse #tinypottery #buckeyes
Very small stoneware fairy house carved with faux bois patten and glazed in shino, with two buckeyes stacked next to it
February 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM