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I just did a video of all the clays I use ruclips.net/video/5VJaNvGbFr4/видео.htmlsi=GUlWEZNwAd_CJbuc however I really didn't show them like I do here. It's # 211 Hazelnut from Standard Ceramics, they distribute throughout the Eastern US and ship. It gives a warm reduction like look in an oxidation kiln. Nice about grandma's pitcher you'll have to make one from memory.

@ thank you for the info. I did watch the clay video after I asked. I have plans to make a pitcher like grandmas. Thanks to you. And I binge watched your spout videos. I have to wait to have any clay shipped till warmer weather everything is coming frozen and I don’t have space to treat it like reclaim so I disappointed I have to wait. Love the color of that hazelnut. I’m in Michigan.

This shashlik or kebab skewer dose have a pointy tip on the other side. It gives much better control, and I've always use it but today I found with this side you don't have to reload as often. Fun to do glad you ❤ them.

A little scary art. Many here take Halloween up many levels to the gruesome, that I do not like.

@@pottersjournal in the Netherlands we are cool and hasitant about the halloween with costumes creepy stuff and dress up your garden... that is not what halloween is about. In old old times we had joel fest, on 31 oct. The end of harvest season, the end of the year, kinda new years eve. That was celebrated with fires on the land. What i like about halloween nowadays is the carved pumpkins and pumpkins. A massive beautiful fruit.

@ Thanks, you must know by now i love uncovering this kind of cultural history for the year celebrations.

@@pottersjournal that is exactly why i like your pottery Jeffrey👍

Glad you caught that, fill and soak. Didn't do it long enough, it's been cold.

I guess some make it work, throwing to a stick always confused me.

I show the three I made this day at 15:40 not sure what one it is you think I didn't get what I was going for. My inspiration are the stars of an expanding galaxy. Looking for a more organic softer shape to the heart, symmetry brought back into play then blurred again with placement of the dots, a few large ones here balanced out with a cluster of small there. A templet may lead in quite another direction bringing in the precision of a machinist. Could include a standard spacing and placement for the dots, a stencil used to give them a controlled size. I've seen commercially purchased stamps are very popular with makers today, this way everyone's can be exact. I like mine to be different from others and different from others of mine.

@@pottersjournal Look at the time stamp i put in mu comment. You mess up the line you are making right then. It is ironic. If a person trying to copy your technique is having trouble making clean heart shapes a dot at a time, which is easy to understand since everything takes practice, using a template is a good idea. I think the marks on the clay from a template would be a drag, so I suggested drawing a heart using water to make a temporary mark because I think proposing solutions is preferable to telling people they shouldn't be trying something if they can't already do it.

@@penguinista Although I still don't see what I got wrong at or after 7:17 thanks for thought provoking comments. If using a water mark or template I'm still going to urge the idea it be irregularly shaped but that need not be the individual's way. There is many a sweet lady doing ceramic videos sorry I do try to give mine a bit of an edge.

The rim is a nice easy TRANSFORMATION ❤

Have a farm market that goes through November and 1 show in December. It's hard to get away from my Christmas tree farm those months I make up to 300 wreaths. It's Jan-March that are lacking. and I'm specially in need of some sales.

@@pottersjournal Christmas Tree Farm? Are you in Oregon?

@@connecticutaggie Once had 50 acres in cultivation outside of Pittsburgh. Now it's maybe 5, mostly wreath from stumps that grew back. I do a video every December they can be found on my playlist page.

Thanks, I'm still trying to master it.

Thanks, that's what i'm hearing all round. Small and medium, next year I'll go BIG.

Glad to hear someone is in the warm. You and a friend or two from down New Zealand way. Reminds me i need to make some yarn bowls too.

17th century English pottery technique. Don't remember you traveling that way.

You know the word, 'stop back next week' and 'see what's in the kiln today'.

Glad you liked. The countdown to Valentines in on. No worries if you don't make it, I sold most of them last year thorough the summer.

@pottersjournal Ah, nice tip! Thanks again! ❤️

Nice weather last year, way below freezing this. I try to do something a little new and different each year.

@pottersjournal how about heart shaped serviette holders?

@@CosyCeramicSheila Maybe better hand built. I'll watch to see what you do

@@pottersjournal I'm breading on the piggy bank 😂 because i WILL make him. I'm not going for the balloon method, afraid the balloon will snap. Thinking of 2 pinch pots together or slab in mold 2x.... but I've to glaze my house i grew up in first and bring other pieces to Betty and I've to work and...... iekkkks where can i find the time 😡

@@CosyCeramicSheila When the two halfs are put together it will trap the air and self support. Then you can add legs ears. Then when it starts to dry you must cut the opening or as it shrinks it will crack.

you see a lot of them in the old sgraffito pots too.

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Wet as possible. Pre-leatherhard. As i work through a board some may have become early leatherhard stage. Maybe more secrets in last years video. ruclips.net/video/WGSz7T5j5Q8/видео.htmlsi=dnV18SyCD0N-HFU3

@@pottersjournal Thank you

Stop back next week for kiln opening. Here is last years ruclips.net/video/Bnn62CR5gcI/видео.htmlsi=ujt8fpFTuyfXs2dw

I'll be watching for the hearts carved in your clay. Glazes do good stuff your way too.

O Canada.... Wish I were there. I'm in big trouble if my farm market comes to an end. People love it so much they want to show it to their out-of-town visitors. Every week I Pack up pots for people traveling back north, south, occasional Europe and I think someone did say Phippens last year. I don't expect much from the 2 coming up right outside my door this next month. Do try some ❤pots, they sold through the summer the last one in the fall.

@@pottersjournal I might try your hearts I have the centreing down now on the wheel working on coning maybe a heart bowl today, Not sure you would like Canada right now it has been -40/-50c with the windchill the last week warming up today

@@corryg6403 too cold

It's not your Alps but I get out on my hills with the XC skis every day we have snow. Love the wintertime.

Flowerpots for sure, need some? Maybe some Old Economy style redware too.

And that was my dog Ralph too. But it's mom who will appreciate your noticing her. She took care of her mother then had to settle family estates for several family members. This was such a great time for her to return to her craft and art, big and small. All the best to you, thanks.

@pottersjournal you are welcome Jeff. Oh yes i saw Ralph, good dog. At the market the little chair was instant sold. Something i would buy too but then as a plant stand.

Interesting, I looked up the famous Cedar Heights Clay. Coming from a mining company loading on train boxcars they wouldn't know how to get 3 sacks off a pallet if I were to show up there. If I were to go out to the mining field the scoop on their equipment would burry my entire truck under clay. I'm lucky too that Standard is the processer with around 100 blends for ceramics distributed by suppliers throughout the Eastern US. Another big thing I like is using right from the bag, I don't need a mixer or pug mill, I hardly need to wedge. Closest I've been to right from the ground is the clay pipe sculpture I've done at the pipe plant, Logan Clay Products. Watching the trucks come in and seeing it processed. I still have literally tons of it, fires to cone 2. If only they didn't add the extra heave grog. All said to do take interest in Gabriel Nichols' work and philosophy of the wild clay.

@@pottersjournal ah yes of course really big boys!...Sorry - as I typed the question I realised it was pretty daft as nothing is small scale there! I had in my mind Sven Bayer (a UK potter) who talks about establishing his pottery close to his clay supply and trundling off with a tractor and trailer direct to get loose clay as and when . And that method closed a few years ago for him so he then had to buy the same clay from processers 200 miles away in neat plastic bags! tut to plastic and all those clay miles. Googled Gabriel Nichols to find some similarities to you with his connection to pipe clay. Amazing.

@@nutmeg-s3h No, thanks, that was fun for me to take a quick look at. A neighbor once did give me some red clay when digging a pond but at the time, with the early path, I was on track to fire high with wood and didn't understand anything else. I am familiar with these guys but not their clay story. Was very happy once having an old friend put me on to Mary Wondrausch.

@ ah yes, my kind neighbour did the same ,infact a big trailer load when I first started. It was great and fired to 1200 c. I used it to make flower pots but oh so stony and ripped my hands to shreds!. Mary Wondrausch was quite the gal, doing slip trailing in the 70s when everyone else was going high fired. Its always good to find out about new potters. I think I may have exhausted the basic well knowns and rarely look at present day ones, I think I love reading about their stories and the history.

My apologies on your last comment and first look at your icon today, I thought you were someone else and didn't take you as sincere. So glad to hear from you, I've looked in on you a number of times. The Hazelnut really does have the nice warm tones that reacts nicely with the glazes. Their black clay doses the same but in the extreme, so I use it as a slip for decorating. Again, glad to hear from you.

@@pottersjournal I am in Maine, so I have to drive in the snow at times. They do a pretty good job plowing the roads here... yours looked deep like the plow guy wasn't even trying. I would've been petrified. Hopefully the weight in the back helped you get back up! With my luck I would've gotten stuck and had to pull the clay home on a sled to keep it from freezing. Anyway, I really like watching your videos! Thanks for sharing!

@@threelittlepotters I did question going out but roads were fine once off the mile of dirt, i do love it here only 40 minutes out of downtown. By buying a years supply and on this extra promotion day i save substantially plus i don't go crazy with glaze and gadgets. 🙂

The clay chimney flue pipe that I sometimes get unfired for sculpture fires at cone 2 and I'll do some unglazed flowerpots too. I'm guessing you do garden ware, so the absorption rate is something to think of. I do realize how lucky I am with 16 low fire and 22 mid-range clays to choose from. I couldn't do without the Hazelnut Brown. Plus, so close, no shipping and an extra discount once a month too. I knew Standard did casting slip, see now 8 kinds, French blush and stoneware too. I did have a box white porcelain on my list to sample but crossed it off, as you said it wouldn't mix for me on the tools or in the scrap bucket.

Every day this year with the skis, all seasons' tires and 4-wheel drive. Gas fire is the reduction kiln, when deprived of oxygen the fire goes for oxygen in the glaze and clay giving them rich earthy tones. The Hazelnut Brown clay body that I like gives some of the looks of that in the electric oxidation kiln.

@@pottersjournal thanks Jeff, i learn everyday more. So interesting.

Closed on Saturday except the second Saturday of each month when the give price brake to next size up. From a bag at the box rate to for me 1000 at the 2000lbs rate. Same with their glazes. I don't know about the other glazes they carry. Only the most basic of tools despite what they have online, I guess it really the processing facility. I'm 30 minutes away my farm borders Raccoon Creek State Park.

M&M in Corry has standard clays.

@@suzannewhite9777 WOW. Looks like a great place. Not just to place an order but very well stocked.

@suzannewhite9777 i usually go there!

Paying cash gets you a discount on clays at M&M​, and it's locally owned.@@pottersjournal

Slabs formed around a small ballon???

@pottersjournal i think i try 2 pinch pots with slib together.

It's been hard to get over Ralph. Who would think of a dog as an artist, a poet, dramatic actor, he moved like a dancer. He preferred to drink not from a bowl but from the edge of a pond in the days changing light. We communicated completely with a constant glance of the EYE; we were so close. Ralph could fly, soulmates, I knew there would not be another. Brutus passed the tests of responding to my wants, being a good boy and he so loved my farm I could not refuse him an adoption. He can spring, he can jump high, he is an athlete, what every dad want's except maybe the artist. He never takes his EYE off the ball; he will go out for a throw and catch it. I'm accepting this of him, having fun with him, we are good friends. For mom, providing her emotional support he has been invaluable.

@pottersjournal so good yo read about the love for your dogs. And the love and loyalty of the dog for you. Losing a dog like Ralph, such a pal, is heart breaking. Sometimes i see he dives up in your pottery. That's good. You described it so nice.

LOL A platter is for when you get 100,000 over night. Happy that my only 2000 are all quality subscribers and we have shared interests, you are a collector too, nice. I'll be watching for them in your shorts video. Very interesting, this is the first I've heard of firing with peat, very interesting and why not if that is the fuel available.

@pottersjournal haha, yes you are right. I noticed too a lot and a lot of b.sht on here too.... wondering why some get so many subscribers...... You give me the idea to make a film about my potters pots collection. And tell about that kinda remarkable things as the peat thing. I comment on your other answers later Jeff, I've to go to work now. Later. Bye 👋

making ruclips.net/video/2K4HpDbLMvE/видео.htmlsi=vhP3ucDwn7s6RClH kiln open ruclips.net/video/Bb-RGA0T16A/видео.htmlsi=s3fcXJKFu_t06vcW

@pottersjournal thank you for helping me out to sent me the links, I'm watching these vids now, the are so cute, 🐽 👍

Not easy for me eighter, even with the small bottoms I can't get lower than 15% with s-cracks in the drying greenware. Glad you like the jeweling heart mugs as that is what I have now. $33.00 and $15.00 for USPS flat rate shipping box. This link is last year's kiln opening ruclips.net/video/Bnn62CR5gcI/видео.htmlsi=9xTIzGEkuH6ZzTg2 If/when you are ready, I'll get you images for this year's available, each one is different. My RUclips home page has a link for Facebook for getting me privately in messenger or we can do Email.

In video 418 the process completely. ruclips.net/video/QGJ__kaQyuc/видео.htmlsi=ViBdh8p64KBJp59D

Hey, Heidi. Nice to hear from you a fiber artist and ceramist. Surprised too as I'm somewhat random and haphazard and your Knitters Journal on Etsy is so thought-out and structured. On seeing this video my mother noted she has a little black book with all her loom warpings over the years. More thoughtful than mine a link here to a channel with a number of videos on this so vital and personal an item. www.youtube.com/@Julie.Miette

Wishing you a very Muddy New Year.

I made the last pot of last year on October 24th, total 1,187. I will fire but with the tree farm no throwing in November or after. I made the first pots of 2025 on December 12th 2024 - 30 shots, on December 30th - 20 mugs & 3 bowls. So a head start in December of 2024 bring the count for 2025 to 55 pots. Today I hope to make 25 small cream pitchers. Understand🙂? I hope there is no questioning this 🙂? My goals are to make 1000 a year.

That's when the real fun starts. always something different.

@pottersjournal i bet it ll be 👌

In one of Simon's videos he caught his brother Johnny Leach taking a plate off the wheel. A full-size dinner plate taken off without a bat, it ovaled and figured eighted and flopped around like a fish just caught. ruclips.net/video/E6luUl14AA8/видео.htmlsi=NVUP9MWJiCX_MF_v So I imagine it's all a matter of experience. It's inspired me to do my little spoon rest size plates without a bat but that's as far as it will go, I'll never make the number pots Johnny Leach did. The cut off is tricky. Twice with a stick to get exact, then a little start with the needle so the wire has a place to grab. I did this same video slow with explanation last summer. ruclips.net/video/QGJ__kaQyuc/видео.htmlsi=mxGyvIIBaxW_SAfy I still haven't eliminated the s-crack nonmatter what I've tried.

my fist thoughts 'what are you talking about?', 30 all lined up on board, production pottery, heart soul? But yes, each year, each season, each pot when it comes out of the kiln, I look at each, divide them in groups, pick favorites. Hide some on back of a shelf pull one to come in with me. thanks nutmeg, a very happy new year to you.

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Oh, Michele, thanks so much as this is so much what makes my work happen. I use it when I can't make pots, when I need to make many fast, when lost needing a new way, when ideas are developing faster than I can work. RUclipss 'Hobby Potter' uses a ring binder all very structured, I could not do structured. What do you need and want from it, what is your style. I didn't show glaze notes, firings, sales records or a few correspondence drafts. It's the first time I taped stuff in, scrapbooking. Past years there has been more research for ideas development; by sketching instead of collecting images I've started the process of changing to make it my own. This year, now, amazingly I'm mostly advancing my own work. Drawing out all 25 mugs I hope to produce must look CRAZY but their staring boldly back at me says we need to be made fast, or we've been here so long don't forget us. Notes of what clay, weight, dimensions of maybe a lid are great if something needs remade, a starting point for next time, a starting point for something new. A couple times losing a board of pots I only counted the remakes, but my favorite question, LOL, I count them after turning, it's the only time they are all together to count. It's been great thinking this out, first time I held them all together, realizing how I've used and needed them has changed. Don't wish you had done this. Do it. Let me know how it works, hope it makes you a great 2025.

@ What an excellent response!! I need to ask myself these questions for sure. That’s a lot to think about but really great! Thanks so much. I try a lot of different glaze combinations and layer glazes on 95% of my pots so in order to keep track of those I use an index card for each piece and number them so I can keep track of what combos I like. I take a picture of the pot with the card before and after but I just keep them in a file in my phone which is really taking up a lot of space. Also when I have a glaze kiln load not all of my pots fit so I have to rifle through the cards to see which ones have been fired and then I put the card with the pot and take pictures and then the cards are all mixed up!! I start the numbers over at 50 so I don’t end up going too high with the numbers and can group them back more easily by date. Anyway… I will look at the other potters channel you mentioned. I so appreciate it. Thanks again.

To you and your family too. Think of you often and always this time of year.