Our latest pootery session was…educational.  I failed to take photographs of the milk pitcher which I attempted, but it would be fair to call it “unique” and possibly “special”.  There was much giggling as I attempted to shore up the cracking walls while Anaïs built a handle, all while the clock was ticking in the last moments of the studio session.  Other projects this week included a turned bowl which I glazed and neglected to take photos of, and this elegant slabware beer stein/coffee mug hybrid, which may or may not lose its handle the instant I fill it with scalding hot liquid:

Here’s a better shot of the other pieces behind the mug.

From left to right: an experimental tray which turned out so ugly that my husband has insisted that I give it away or toss it in the garbage (Anaïs has suggested breaking it up and using the pieces in something else, which I may yet end up doing), Anaïs’ butter dish, a beautiful bunny (which I suspect has some walrus and cthulhu grandparents in the gene pool) made by my favourite 5 year old, and finally, a lovely little green and pink bowl, also Anaïs’ work.

Jesus Christ it’s a lion get in the bus!

>:3

Latest pottery project:  ridiculous espresso cups for 5 year old girls.

Well, just one 5 year old girl.

The first three are finished, and now residing with aforementioned 5 year old:

There’s a fourth one, and I intended to wait until they were all finished and together before I posted the photos, but I ended up allowing the 5 year old to act as art director for the final piece.  She made some bold choices.  Bold enough that there’s no point in considering them a matched set anymore.  Instead they will be a game of One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others.

The 5 year old in question also has some fresh and creative perspectives on overturning the draconian bourgeois dinner table laws.  Power to the proletariat, sister.  Fight the good fight.

…my personal heaven.