It's one of my arrows in archery. I rolled out a coil and pointed it. I pinched some little flaps and stuck them to the sides, and made a little coin thingy for the top, and just put a slit in it for the nock. I didn't have any problems with this. I aimed for kinda realistic. It's way too small, though. I like the neon green nock. Again, the light box washed it out a little.

It's a pitcher. I rolled out a slab, rolled a little pattern on it, cut it a little, pinched it together with slip, put a bottom slab on, and boom. There it is. I didn't have enough clay to make a large one, so I couldn't use a template, and it kept cracking when I bent it. I also had too much clay to wedge, so I had to get it super wet, but that was always too wet for the roller, so it would stick and I'd have to restart. It's just a pitcher. No specific style. I like the glaze, it's really pretty. You can't see it that well in the light box, and it's a little washed out, but trust me. It's really pretty.

It's a bowl. He's the smaller of the two, so I named him "Lil Man". I slab rolled clay, pressed the pattern on Pitcher into it, then cut it in a circle, put it in a little styrofoam ring, and slammed the ring against my table, and Lil Man was born. Lil Man is beautiful. I love him. He is my second son, trust me. Nothing was difficult, I didn't have any struggles with Lil Man or his brother. Lil Man is just a bowl. I love his glaze, he matches my pitcher. Lil Man, Big Man and Pitcher are a matching set.

Big Man is Lil Man's brother. He's the younger brother. They're both bowls. I slab rolled, pressed a pattern, cut a circle, put it in a ring, slammed the ring against my table, and Big Man was born. Big Man is also my son, my third son. I had no struggles with Big Man. Really, he's just a bowl, but he kinda feels more like a plate. He's flatter. I really like his glaze.

This is my little conga line of chopstick holders. They're 5 of 17, all identical. These are really fun to make. I just slab out a bunch of clay, cut off the odd edges, and then slice it into roughy equal rectangles. I take a little scoop-like tool, and prop the rectangle onto it's side, and scoop down onto the long side until it comes out the other end and I make sure the bottom is at an even depth. Then I smooth over all the edges and the inside with a wet sponge. I make some little feet with thin rectangles, scrape the underside of them, and where I want the feet to go on the holder, and smear slip all over them to stick them together. I also glaze the outside with river rock first, then the inside with tourmaline to force the glaze to mix once it's fired and create hopefully cool effects. Nothing about these was super difficult, it just takes practice to not make the bottom too thin. I really love the glaze, and how smooth they are thanks to me wiping them down so much. The light box kinda washed them out again.

The idea was we had to make a flower pot. I didn't really want to, because I only like terracotta flower pots. I put some clay at the bottom like I got told to because it was supposed to balance it, but it didn't. It kinda just made the balance worse. Then it dried, and I popped it out of the coconut bowl, and (somehow) it got chipped after drying out. I glazed the inside with tourmaline and the outside with river rock like I usually do, and I guess now I have flower pot I don't really want. 

I wanted to make a bowl, so when i was on the wheel, I made a little bowl. I first centered it, then dug a little hole in the clay with a sponge and my hands. I widened it out, thinned the walls, and flared the lip, then moved the lip further into the bowl so it was more circular and kinda looks like this (__). I took it off the wheel to dry, and then when it was more dry I trimmed it up a little. I glazed it to look like Chopstick Holders, because Bowl, Chopstick Holders and Yin-Yang are meant to be a set for chopsticks, miso soup or other kinds of soup and a sushi plate. Trimming was pretty difficult because without a spinning wheel it was really uneven and hard to cut into without trimming too far, and I wanted a foot, but I couldn't slice into the bottom even enough. It's just a bowl. My style is very simple and smooth, and I usually use the river rock glaze somewhere like on the outside of the bowl, and I always glaze right up to where the clay touches the table, because I apply my glaze super thin and it doesn't drip.

My idea was to make a bowl on the wheel, but I messed up and flared it too much, so I just made it into a plate. I left it on the wheel to dry because it was gonna fall apart otherwise, and once it was more dry, I trimmed it up. I glazed it to look like the Yin-Yang symbol, because I've always wanted to glaze pretty designs onto my dinnerware, and the circular shape was right there. It's not really symbolic of anything, I just wanted to make it look like the Yin-Yang symbol. Trimming was pretty hard, because it was hard to trim up evenly. Like I usually do, I glazed half of this with river rock, and made it super smooth and glazed right up to where it touched the table. I love how clean the symbol came out. Super cutie. :)