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Shaya
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In LA 🌴writer/editor 🧿 شقایق 🖤 fueled by breakfast burritos 🌯 potter #shayclay 🏺tahdig enthusiast and culinary dabbler 🥘 opinions here are mine and usually mine alone
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I got obsessed with closed forms recently too—such a satisfying process!! And the handles are definitely a crapshoot sometimes but i love how expressive they can be
June 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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My financial bellwether is how many states lainey and troy can buy two coffees and cigarettes in for five dollars because it was true the first time i saw this movie. In California no less.
Stills from the movie Reality Bites and the quote from the film: Troy: You see, Lainie, this is all we need. . .couple of smokes, a cup of coffee. . .and a little bit of conversation. You and me and five bucks.
March 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Imagine a DC press corps that stands up for press freedom like this 🥲
March 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Spotted in the Valley, a rather unique rug #mydayinLA
A handwoven rug hangs on a wall, depicting a map of afghanistan and weapons
March 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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New pitcher just in time for iced tea season. This glaze is called Sun Valley and it is so wild and reactive to the Rod’s Bod clay (which always gives speckles). Fired at cone 10 #pottery #shayclay
February 25, 2025 at 10:09 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 20: another piece of #shayclay from the Zaftig collection, which i use as a vase

#pottery #ceramics #art #handmade #clay
February 21, 2025 at 12:00 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 14: fresh from the kiln, a #shayclay lidded jar that is slightly spooky 👻 glazed in teadust

#pottery #ceramics #art #handmade #clay
February 19, 2025 at 7:42 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 13: a #shayclay trio of tri-colored bowls, made by combining two glazes

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February 18, 2025 at 7:44 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 12: a #shayclay mug that I call my Monday mug because it holds a bucket’s worth of coffee

#pottery #ceramics #art #handmade #clay
February 17, 2025 at 8:38 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 11: a #shayclay vase from my Zaftig collection with “slimming” vertical lines on a lovely curvy form 😏

#pottery #ceramics #art #handmade #clay
February 16, 2025 at 1:08 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 10: a #shayclay lidded jar, two perfectly matched pieces that fit just so 🥰 hewn from one closed form of handmade pottery

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A #shayclay lidded jar with a rounded handle and rutile glaze, two pieces cut from one throw of a closed form A #shayclay lidded jar with a rounded handle and rutile glaze, two pieces cut from one throw of a closed form. Matching plate and cannister alongside it
February 14, 2025 at 10:55 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 9: On my birthday I’m sharing my all-time fave piece of #shayclay pottery: a pickle jar! 4 pieces of stoneware attached and glazed w/ Bringle yellow

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A #shayclay pickle jar that has a moat built into the top to help build a water-air barrier, just like ancient potters did A #shayclay pickle jar that has a moat built into the top to help build a water-air barrier, just like ancient potters did Work in progress: A #shayclay pickle jar that has a moat built into the top to help build a water-air barrier, just like ancient potters did
February 14, 2025 at 2:02 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 8: my rutile-glazed cannister holds my granola bars and my mug; this is how breakfast is served when i wake up and just wanna write #shayclay

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A white stoneware mug next to a rutile-glazed canister of granola bars
February 12, 2025 at 8:32 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 7: friendly reminder that we all start somewhere 🤗 here’s the first mug I built in high school. Probably big enough for a double espresso at most!

#pottery #ceramics #art #handmade #clay
February 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Google maps and Apple maps have already changed it 🧐
February 11, 2025 at 10:47 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 6: in honor of LA and Kendrick’s superbowl performance, here are a couple of blue and white cutie patootie mugs!

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Two #shayclay mugs, stacked, striped blue and white
February 10, 2025 at 9:17 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 5: since it’s a big sportsball day, here are two #shayclay super bowls. I love throwing big 🤗

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February 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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The smoked kanpachi tostada at Holbox is one of LA’s best bites, I wish I had ordered three of them
February 9, 2025 at 7:53 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 4: the #shayclay planter I built from three forms, eyeballed to fit, and now use to grow my date palm (from the seed of a Hadleys date 🌴!)

#pottery #ceramics #art #handmade #clay
Three rounded pottery forms, two on a bench and one still on the wheel, that will be attached to build a #shayclay planter The #shayclay planter composed of three rounded forms that are melded together A #shayclay planter glazed in various blues
February 9, 2025 at 5:44 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 3: one of my first #shayclay lidded jars, which I made by throwing one closed form and then cutting and trimming it into two pieces, jar and lid.

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A closed clay form, small and round, with an indentation to guide where the cut will go to turn it into a lidded jar #shayclay The closed form has now been cut to be two separate pieces, and serve as a jar, with an added handle #shayclay Glazed little pumpkin jar #shayclay
February 8, 2025 at 6:53 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 2: my #shayclay lamp, with a teardrop shaped form on top of a round form. I call it Cry Baby.

#pottery #ceramics #art #ArtYear #handmade #lamp #clay #ceramiclove #practical
A #shayclay lamp that is a compound form with a round form topped by a tear-shaped form #shayclay lamp that is a compound form with a round form topped by a tear-shaped form
February 6, 2025 at 11:20 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 1: my #shayclay planter for my aloe, which I named Space Oddity

#pottery #ceramics #art #ArtYear #handmade #plantsky #clay #ceramiclove #whimsical #plantlove
A #shayclay planter called Space Oddity that is a compound form, with a rounded bowl topping a cylinder, all of it on legs that are reminiscent of the landing apparatus of early spacecraft. An aloe plant grows out of it with long leaves.
February 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Been really into putting lil legs on wonky bowls #pottery
February 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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When adult trauma meets childhood trauma
A king size Cadbury caramello bar
January 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Judging from my experience as a professor, an alarming number of people don’t know the news tab exists, so I am adding that you can also limit your search by time range to find the most recent updates
January 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM