Hello! I’m not ending the mystery moulds! Just a dramatic title to express my love for finally finding my dream moulds 😂 There’s a sneak peak for the next video at the end of this one as proof 😅
My toddler saw me watching your videos while I was cross stitching. She cuddled up and watched several episodes. This morning she came to me and asked to watch the "Pottery Lady". Thank you for making content that can be shared with my whole family. Each of my girls are creative in their own way, one in art, one in sewing, and another in building. I look forward to seeing what the youngest will be creative in. Maybe it will be pottery :)
You can reduce a lot of the dribble with careful trimming of the spout. A thinner, sharp edge at the very tip of the lid helps "cut" the water flow so a bead doesn't form and then drip.
YES! Exactly what I was coming to say. Shelby, watch some wheel throwing potters on RUclips make some spouts and how they talk about how the edge of the tip of the spout has to have a sharp cut. Right now, there is a millimeter of thickness at the front edge. This causes the water to stick and dribble.
I was thinking the same thing. I’m a thrower and teapots are a favorite of mine. When I saw the spout I thought “it needs to be thinner and sharper at the pouring end. I’ve also added a little ‘tongue’ just below the spout end which catches the drip and sends it into the cup instead of down the spout.
I love this teapot! Yes, I would love to see a tea set made with this. It would be pretty painted in the colors of river pebbles too. They are all different colors.
The height of the spout mostly means that you can fill the teapot completely (you can’t fill a teapot or watering can higher than the level of the spout because the liquid inside will just flow out). How it pours is more about the shape of the “rim” of the spout than the level.
The dark crystal always scared the heck out of me when I was a kid, and would probably still scare me now 😂 the main characters were too uncanny for me, and when the bird guy melted it haunted my nightmares haha
I just wrote a comment about my mother thinking it was a great idea to show my kids at age 3 & 4 that movie. It pretty much traumatized them and as adults my one daughter is still freaked out by puppets, marionettes, and animatronics.
I would love to see one of these teapots for every season choosing a color palette that would suit the seasons. The picture in my mind is adorable! My little one and I watch your channel together and we just adore it. ❤
I love this series. The expression on your face was priceless! For me the trauma was from Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH! I read the books and watched the animated film as a kid and I have had a fear of rats ever since!
The mushroom handle was genius. The teapot wouldn’t dribble if you had shaved the spout tip so it is thinner and sharp edged to ‘cut’ the stream of liquid as you tip back. The Hobbit is nice to read or listen to as an audio book. No jump scare that way.
Yes, please, make the tea set with this teapot. 🥺 I'd love to see it and it can go so many different ways. As for childhood nightmares, for me it's the Moomins. When I was little it was a good night cartoon. I was so scared I'd rather skip it than watch it.
In the 1970s in the United States there were a lot of ceramic shops where people could go every week and paint in the next week and to it like if we were having a piece fired to stain instead of glaze it and it was so much fun and I did I made so many wonderful things and then kind of died off and I wish it was around I miss it. You bring back fond memories. I love watching your videos.
Yes please make a cute tea set to go with the tea pot. Love how you added a mushroom to the lid. Maybe a future one you could add tiny cute mushrooms among the grass around the cottage. 🍄 ❤️
When I was a baby my parents took me to Jurassic Park, when the T-Rex yelled I LOST IT!!! Soon after they took me to the museum and taught me about dinosaurs and fell in love with them~! Love from Oregon!!!
I hid under the theater seat most of that movie when I was little. I had nightmares about dinosaurs for years after that. As an adult I love those movies and have not had a dinosaur nightmare in a long time.
I was two years old when that movie came out and my family had rented it out to watch it. I had been put down in my bed. I did not stay there. When the t rex ate the lawyer , they realized I was there because I burst out laughing. 😂 Still actually adore the movies. Edit spelling mistakes
80s movies were absolutely wild. The Dark Crystal, The Labyrinth, ET, The Neverending Story etc. I think the feel of those was also part of the inspo for Stranger Things.
@@niagara6015 That scene in the back of the house at night where Elliott shines his flashlight onto E.T.'s face and it lets out an otherworldly scream. Ugh...[shudder]
Hey, Shelby! Fun video and I love the tea pot! My late sister gifted me a one person tea pot/cup for Christmas a few years back. She said it reminded her of something a Hobbit would have. She was the one who turned me onto the books and I've read the LORT and Hobbit nearly every year since So roughly 56 time!! I love your videos and wish I lived closer so I could make something at your shop. But we're on the other side of the world from each other. 😘💚
That’s fantastic - replacing the handle on the lid was a brilliant idea, the mushroom looks so good. A whole set would is a great idea, just about any of your cottage type cups would work in the same colour scheme.
The pot spout dribbles because of the shape of the edge of it. It needs to have a pointed spot where the liquid pours over. The edge cannot be that wide either. Picture more of a v shape rather than a U shape.
I've said this before, but your mystery molds helped me through the worst mental health crisis of my life. I hope you never stop surprising us with your work. ❤❤❤❤
My uncle thought that my cousin might enjoy watching this cheesy old shark movie, Jaws! She was only 5! It scared her so badly that she couldn’t get in a pool or the ocean for decades, or finish the movie… or watch scary movies. 😂😢 He was so bummed too because he was an avid diver and boater. Sadly he passed away when she was 19. And after she graduated from college she went to get dive certified and now swims in the ocean, in his honor. ❤ She overcame her fear, and so can you!
The teapot is so adorable 😍😍😍😍 but the roof reminds me of ginko leaves! And in the fall, they turn a vibrant yellow! All the ❤ from Pittsburgh, PA USA!!!
I got a huge fright going through a car wash as a toddler. I still remember it vividly and have never gone through one since. So not a film or book but definitely long-lasting!
Same, especially when they are threatening to take hers too. Luckily i liked so many other parts of the movie, I'd watch it and just cover my eyes with a pillow during that part lol.
My daughters watched Hitchcock's 'The Birds" while at my parents house, my mother loved that movie. They (35 and 37 years later) absolutely freak if a bird gets near them. There are occasionally magpies in their garage and it's utter mayhem. I have not seen "The game of Thrones", I read the books each the year as it came out and it could not equal my imagination!
I didn't watch The Prince of Egypt until I was 26- that might not seem like a big deal but as a Christian kid, there weren't a lot of movies to show us during Sunday school holidays, and the Prince of Egypt was a major part of ALL my friends childhoods. I just couldn't get past the start, it's full on!
I haven't seen the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series because I was almost kidnapped by pirates at age 3. We have a July 4th parade on Main Street every year in my hometown (which is a suburb of Seattle) My dad was an employee of a paint company that was also on Main St, so he drove a company van in the parade, with my sister and I dressed in paint coveralls and company hats. The parade also had the Seafair Pirates from the annual Seafair Days Festival in Seattle, on their pirate ship, with their guns blasting SO LOUD, and the pirates running into the crowd to "scare" the kids and throw candy. Well, one of these pirates pretended to kidnap 3 years old me from the paint van, and it scared me to pieces! Luckily, we also lived further up Main St, so my mom was able to walk us home the 10 blocks or so to our house. Most years after that (until we were older, that is) we just watched the parade from our front yard, as all those in the parade lined up prior to and in front of our house before the parade began... minus the Seafair Pirates, that is, since their massive ship met the parade further along the route. Most of the floats and those in the parade would throw candy to us in our yard, and we didn't even have to run into the street and fight a bunch of other kids for it! 🍬🍭 One of the perks of cheering for those in the parade before it even began. Plus, my parents didn't have to walk 2 small children 10 blocks while fighting other attendees and the chairs and other items of those that had "claimed" their spot the day prior. It was a massive parade for such a small town, and attendees came from many surrounding towns/cities, so roped off groups of chairs, along with poorly parked flatbeds began to appear in the parking lots along the route on July 2 each year. So anyway, i haven't watched the series, which I joke to my family is because the pirates almost got me years ago!
I was so excited when you said the words woody and earthy because that's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the tea pot. Now I really hope you might find cups that Match the estatic of the pot. Also in childhood trauma: As a German kid growing up I have a shared trauma thing with people in my peer group. It was around easter over 30 years ago when they aired that specific animation of watership down for the first time in German TV. It feels like every parent/grandparent at the time saw the planned program, thought 'oh, animation, rabbits, nice, let's let the Kids watch unsupervised' and that's how a whole generation developed a fear of black rabbits.😅
I totally get it! I’m a huge horror fan but I can’t watch The Witches (1990) because my cousin made me watch it at 8… any other horror is totally fine, but I have never been able to watch that one or the remake.
I love the customization with the mushroom handle--would be nice to add a few smaller mushrooms around the base. With the talk about The Hobbit, I was thinking it would be very cool to retrofit a round hobbit-hole door (but that's a BIG change!)
The Wizard of Oz when the Wicked Witch releases The Flying Goblin Monkey beasts scared the shit out of me when I was little...The Wizard Of Oz was shown on TV on Thanksgiving and I would go an hide and cry every year til I was 10 years old.🤣 Also the scary Child Catcher!
Absolutely you should make a set to go with! If I had a chance to paint that teapot, I'd have made it a very earthy fairy cottage. I likely would have added too many mushrooms and rendered the poor thing useless though. If you saw my art, you'd know what I mean about liking to overdo things lol. (I have two of my pieces from my current _Wondrous Women With Their Treasured Things_ in my yt shorts if you're interested) Anyway, I'd probably make flower cups to go with the cottage if I were the one painting it, but something with birds may suit yours more. Regardless, you did such beautiful work on this.
Shelob is terrifying! Many parts of The Hobbit are scary and when my parents took me to see the cartoon version in the theater, the fire scene scared me so much we had to leave. Shelby, I’m surprised you haven’t seen any LOTR films when it fits your aesthetic so well; have you read any of the books?
Love the grungy look! I live in a small black house and know how I would paint this up.. birch trees and bright green leaves, loads of grass and shrooms and perhaps a raven on the roof, just like my house has. Congrats on the find. But do not stop the mystery molds!!!!
Hi Shelby. I also am a potter and I read somewhere that putting a little LINISHING COMPOUND under the lip of the spout should stop the drip. LINISHING compound is used by metal workers to get a high polish. Hope this helps, Barbara
So, so cute! The colors are not "grungy" at all! The blue stones worked better than I thought it would! For me, would have tried to paint each stone a different color grey then put a dark grey wash over all. Changing out the little handle on the lid was smart. I think an acorn would be cute if you had a mold the Igor size. I understand your excitement when you opened it!
Oh my word! What a stunning job you did on the teapot!! And I love that, not only did you step outside of your norm to make it a bit grungy ( which is GORGEOUSLY DONE, btw), but you also added your own pastel style to the window! I love that! And the grunge really makes your pastel window just pop beautifully! What a beautiful job you did! I would LOVE to see you make a whole set like this! It’s absolutely stunning!
My eldest was traumatized when she was 4 yrs old when my mother thought it would be a great idea for her to watch the Dark Crystal movie. She had to sleep with the lights on for almost a week. I won’t even tell you what her younger sister (3yrs old) thought of it. Suffice it to say 19 yrs later she still is creeped out by puppets, animatronics, and marionettes.
I am always amazed at how the colours just pop once the pieces have been fired. The teapot is adorable. Love the mushroom handle. Love the blues of the cobble stones and the orange cat. I would love to see a tea set to match the pot. Wouldn't it be cute to have the orange cat show up on the sugar bowl or the creamer. Would the cups have saucers?
Looks really nice! you should have put a sliver of clay and dimpled it and put welcome home on the mat have it as a doormat would it be nice. If you get something like a 10 mm drill bit with the smooth end make an indentation right at the top right to the tip! that should prevent it dribbling you don't need a big indentation a couple of minutes, as long as it's bigger width wise than the hole spout, is the secret
My brother was terrified of the Never Ending Story. It was the giant turtle that made him scream and run. For me it was Beetlejuice. Still frightens me to this day and I'm old! XD
OMG I'm an Aussie and was also taken to see the Hobbit puppet show as a kid! I only have great memories of it though, so I think I'll avoid looking up videos to keep my childhood recollections intact :P My family still pronounce the dragon's name in a super high-pitched voice the way I remember them doing in the show. Your colour choices for this tea pot are so unique and beautiful. Really well done! If you do end up doing a hobbit hole inspired version I'd be on it immediately. I promise the first Lord of the Rings movie has no spiders if you were curious enough to face your childhood trauma a little.
I would buy the teapot in a heartbeat ❤ lol its gorgeous. Brought back memories of me and my grandma having afternoon tea as a child. We both traveled to many countries and this was one of the traditions we picked up and loved to do together. She would make us tea biscuits and scones to have as well. I have two other teapots now a patient gave me years ago and that one would be a beautiful addition. I have a butterfly and a bird for handles on my two. Tea cups shaped like flowers go with the butterfly and two traditional porcelain to go with bird 😊ty for invoking my lovely memories
You definitely need to see Lord Of The Rings. The scary parts are well within an adult's ability to cope with it all, and the rest of the series is just stunning, thrilling, fun adventure. A lot of kids will have nightmarish memories of Return To Oz, but for me it was a TV show from the 70s called Children Of The Stones.
I was sceptical about the mushroom. I stand corrected. This is MY FAVOURITE TEAPOT EVER!!!❤ Also I'm pretty sure we saw the same Hobbit play 😂. The puppets were wild!! I think it did the rounds of all of Australia.
If you have a teapot with a spout that drips, you can buy little things to insert that stops that. My grandma had some, they are tiny metal loops with lots of bristles and you put it in like if you were sticking a folded up umbrella into the spout. The bristles hold it in place and the loop guides the tea out correctly. Grandma also had tiny sponges with elastic bands that she thread onto the spout, so as to catch any drips that ran after putting the tea pot back down.
What a beautiful tea pot! I love all of the details and images on it. You did a great job on painting it and replacing the top handle with the little mushroom.
A lovely teapot! But i think I would give the mushroom another colour to match the rest, or possible put a few mushrooms on the pot itself to match the pieces better. Lovely work!
Hello! I’m not ending the mystery moulds! Just a dramatic title to express my love for finally finding my dream moulds 😂
There’s a sneak peak for the next video at the end of this one as proof 😅
Thank goodness
I'm collecting tea. Pots lol I see you are too lol
Im thrifting
I like the idea that you'd just put the mould on your mantle, and never make pottery again, just contented with finding one mould.
When is the next video coming 😢
Miss them
My toddler saw me watching your videos while I was cross stitching. She cuddled up and watched several episodes. This morning she came to me and asked to watch the "Pottery Lady". Thank you for making content that can be shared with my whole family. Each of my girls are creative in their own way, one in art, one in sewing, and another in building. I look forward to seeing what the youngest will be creative in. Maybe it will be pottery :)
You can reduce a lot of the dribble with careful trimming of the spout. A thinner, sharp edge at the very tip of the lid helps "cut" the water flow so a bead doesn't form and then drip.
YES! Exactly what I was coming to say. Shelby, watch some wheel throwing potters on RUclips make some spouts and how they talk about how the edge of the tip of the spout has to have a sharp cut. Right now, there is a millimeter of thickness at the front edge. This causes the water to stick and dribble.
I was thinking the same thing. I’m a thrower and teapots are a favorite of mine. When I saw the spout I thought “it needs to be thinner and sharper at the pouring end. I’ve also added a little ‘tongue’ just below the spout end which catches the drip and sends it into the cup instead of down the spout.
Oh good, you all wrote was I was going to write! 😄👍
Yes. I was thinking a light pinch, thinner and slightly raised tip.
Yes, you should absolutely make a full tea set. Although I would check with your assistants to see if they found any matching teacups and saucers.
Please don't stop the mystery molds! They are my favorite! I love seeing what sort of creative spins you put on the pottery.
We need to find the lid for the canister books!!!
Don’t worry, she said she was kidding. She has so many molds she doesn’t know what’s in them yet!
I love this teapot! Yes, I would love to see a tea set made with this. It would be pretty painted in the colors of river pebbles too. They are all different colors.
I would love a tan/toupe stone and pastel flower version!! And yes of course to the matching set ❤❤❤
A little acorn as the lids handle would be even cuter.
Yes!! Or a little frog. Or, since there is a kitty on the pot, a curled up sleeping kitty for the knob would be cute. So many different options!!
Yes! I did love the mushroom too. It was very good size for the teapot.
But acorn...oooh...perfect!
And I think it will not be less delicate!
Or a bunch of different sized mushrooms. Or a combo of stuff ❤❤❤ so many good ideas (acorn with a tiny frog on top 😮)
Or a leaf!
The height of the spout mostly means that you can fill the teapot completely (you can’t fill a teapot or watering can higher than the level of the spout because the liquid inside will just flow out). How it pours is more about the shape of the “rim” of the spout than the level.
The worm from the labyrinth, scary??? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 he’s the friendliest thing ever created 😂😂😂😂
I'm so glad you found a dream mould!!!! That will be a BLAST to paint. So much work!! Go crazy! Enjoy!
ET scared me to tears. My older sister loved it and would hide her ET doll in my bed. It's still a family joke and she gives me ET gifts periodically.
Came to say ET scared me so much as a child. I still can watch it.
ET is my trauma movie, too. 😢
ET was terrifying. And my parents always made me go on the ride in Universal Studios. Cried each time
I absolutely feel this 🫣 especially the scene of him looking like a dead boiled chicken in the ravine like ??? This is a children's movie????
My childhood trauma film was Wizard of Oz. Those winged monkey absolutely terrified me.
The dark crystal always scared the heck out of me when I was a kid, and would probably still scare me now 😂 the main characters were too uncanny for me, and when the bird guy melted it haunted my nightmares haha
The Dark Crystal scared me as well but not as much as Something Wicked this way Comes.
I just wrote a comment about my mother thinking it was a great idea to show my kids at age 3 & 4 that movie. It pretty much traumatized them and as adults my one daughter is still freaked out by puppets, marionettes, and animatronics.
i loved the t.v. show as an adult but yes the movie as a kid scared the dickens out of me lol
Dark Crystal was the first movie I thought of, too. Nightmare Before Christmas was a close second, though.
Same. The skecksies bird things are my nightmare fuel. ❤
Going through a rough, rough, time, Shelby. Thank you for bringing some sunshine to my day for 15:20 minutes.
I hope things improve for you soon. 💐
Wishing you that you'll get better soon ❤
I would love to see one of these teapots for every season choosing a color palette that would suit the seasons. The picture in my mind is adorable!
My little one and I watch your channel together and we just adore it. ❤
I love this series. The expression on your face was priceless! For me the trauma was from Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH! I read the books and watched the animated film as a kid and I have had a fear of rats ever since!
The mushroom handle was genius. The teapot wouldn’t dribble if you had shaved the spout tip so it is thinner and sharp edged to ‘cut’ the stream of liquid as you tip back.
The Hobbit is nice to read or listen to as an audio book. No jump scare that way.
I've been following you for a few years now. This teapot is the epitome of cuteness!
Yes, please, make the tea set with this teapot. 🥺 I'd love to see it and it can go so many different ways. As for childhood nightmares, for me it's the Moomins. When I was little it was a good night cartoon. I was so scared I'd rather skip it than watch it.
NEED to see a whole little tea set to go with this piece!! So do cute!!!
In the 1970s in the United States there were a lot of ceramic shops where people could go every week and paint in the next week and to it like if we were having a piece fired to stain instead of glaze it and it was so much fun and I did I made so many wonderful things and then kind of died off and I wish it was around I miss it. You bring back fond memories. I love watching your videos.
Time for flower tea cups with leaf saucers!!! Or gourd looking tea cups.
Omg, The Labyrinth. Will NEVER watch again. Gave me nightmares as a kid lol So glad you found your dream mold! Wheeee! 🎉
I love everything about this teapot! Yes, please make a set. I think that would be sweet!
Love the change of handle, the mushroom looks like a chimney!
there's so much detail, that's crazy!! 🥰
Yes please make a cute tea set to go with the tea pot. Love how you added a mushroom to the lid. Maybe a future one you could add tiny cute mushrooms among the grass around the cottage. 🍄 ❤️
Good choice on the mushroom 🍄!! I love it. I would absolutely make a tea set to match!!! Bravo!!!!
When I was a baby my parents took me to Jurassic Park, when the T-Rex yelled I LOST IT!!! Soon after they took me to the museum and taught me about dinosaurs and fell in love with them~! Love from Oregon!!!
I hid under the theater seat most of that movie when I was little. I had nightmares about dinosaurs for years after that. As an adult I love those movies and have not had a dinosaur nightmare in a long time.
I was two years old when that movie came out and my family had rented it out to watch it. I had been put down in my bed. I did not stay there. When the t rex ate the lawyer , they realized I was there because I burst out laughing. 😂 Still actually adore the movies. Edit spelling mistakes
I love Tea pots. This is small enough to be a pot for one if you couple it with one of your Tea mugs ❤
80's fantasy movies where on another level, seriously. Heck I even got traumatized as a little kid by... E.T.!
E.T. traumatised me too, I had nightmares for years and I only saw the movie once as a toddler.
80s movies were absolutely wild. The Dark Crystal, The Labyrinth, ET, The Neverending Story etc. I think the feel of those was also part of the inspo for Stranger Things.
@@niagara6015 That scene in the back of the house at night where Elliott shines his flashlight onto E.T.'s face and it lets out an otherworldly scream. Ugh...[shudder]
I need that teapot! ❤
With the way you painted the roof, it looks like it was made out of pine cones! Love it!
i thought this too! It's so cute!
Hey, Shelby! Fun video and I love the tea pot! My late sister gifted me a one person tea pot/cup for Christmas a few years back. She said it reminded her of something a Hobbit would have. She was the one who turned me onto the books and I've read the LORT and Hobbit nearly every year since So roughly 56 time!! I love your videos and wish I lived closer so I could make something at your shop. But we're on the other side of the world from each other. 😘💚
I have read them for 46 years! Got mine for a graduation gift. Can't finish a year without them!
That’s fantastic - replacing the handle on the lid was a brilliant idea, the mushroom looks so good. A whole set would is a great idea, just about any of your cottage type cups would work in the same colour scheme.
The pot spout dribbles because of the shape of the edge of it. It needs to have a pointed spot where the liquid pours over. The edge cannot be that wide either. Picture more of a v shape rather than a U shape.
I love it with the new lie handle, it looks like a chimney. So cute well done. ❤❤❤
Great results, I would call it weathered rather than grungy. Glad you found more treasure in the moulds.
Pan's Labyrinth! I was like...16? and still got nightmares from the pale man! 😂
I've said this before, but your mystery molds helped me through the worst mental health crisis of my life. I hope you never stop surprising us with your work. ❤❤❤❤
Love this so much. I think making the tree into a wisteria would be cool. Like an old english cottage.
This is the absolute cutest piece you've done. I love it.
My uncle thought that my cousin might enjoy watching this cheesy old shark movie, Jaws! She was only 5! It scared her so badly that she couldn’t get in a pool or the ocean for decades, or finish the movie… or watch scary movies. 😂😢 He was so bummed too because he was an avid diver and boater. Sadly he passed away when she was 19. And after she graduated from college she went to get dive certified and now swims in the ocean, in his honor. ❤ She overcame her fear, and so can you!
The teapot is so adorable 😍😍😍😍 but the roof reminds me of ginko leaves! And in the fall, they turn a vibrant yellow! All the ❤ from Pittsburgh, PA USA!!!
I got a huge fright going through a car wash as a toddler. I still remember it vividly and have never gone through one since. So not a film or book but definitely long-lasting!
The lid looks like straw thatching. I would love to see a yellow/brown roof!
The creatures that pulled off their heads in the Labrinth freaked me out.
Same, especially when they are threatening to take hers too. Luckily i liked so many other parts of the movie, I'd watch it and just cover my eyes with a pillow during that part lol.
I absolutely loved the blue on this piece, a whole tea set would be adorable!💕
My daughters watched Hitchcock's 'The Birds" while at my parents house, my mother loved that movie. They (35 and 37 years later) absolutely freak if a bird gets near them. There are occasionally magpies in their garage and it's utter mayhem. I have not seen "The game of Thrones", I read the books each the year as it came out and it could not equal my imagination!
I didn't watch The Prince of Egypt until I was 26- that might not seem like a big deal but as a Christian kid, there weren't a lot of movies to show us during Sunday school holidays, and the Prince of Egypt was a major part of ALL my friends childhoods. I just couldn't get past the start, it's full on!
I love your energy and excitement of seeing each of the molds. You are so fun to watch.
I absolutely love the teapot !! omgosh im so happy for you 😁
I haven't seen the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series because I was almost kidnapped by pirates at age 3.
We have a July 4th parade on Main Street every year in my hometown (which is a suburb of Seattle) My dad was an employee of a paint company that was also on Main St, so he drove a company van in the parade, with my sister and I dressed in paint coveralls and company hats. The parade also had the Seafair Pirates from the annual Seafair Days Festival in Seattle, on their pirate ship, with their guns blasting SO LOUD, and the pirates running into the crowd to "scare" the kids and throw candy. Well, one of these pirates pretended to kidnap 3 years old me from the paint van, and it scared me to pieces! Luckily, we also lived further up Main St, so my mom was able to walk us home the 10 blocks or so to our house. Most years after that (until we were older, that is) we just watched the parade from our front yard, as all those in the parade lined up prior to and in front of our house before the parade began... minus the Seafair Pirates, that is, since their massive ship met the parade further along the route. Most of the floats and those in the parade would throw candy to us in our yard, and we didn't even have to run into the street and fight a bunch of other kids for it! 🍬🍭 One of the perks of cheering for those in the parade before it even began. Plus, my parents didn't have to walk 2 small children 10 blocks while fighting other attendees and the chairs and other items of those that had "claimed" their spot the day prior. It was a massive parade for such a small town, and attendees came from many surrounding towns/cities, so roped off groups of chairs, along with poorly parked flatbeds began to appear in the parking lots along the route on July 2 each year.
So anyway, i haven't watched the series, which I joke to my family is because the pirates almost got me years ago!
I love that you mentioned Labyrinth! That's one of my favorite movies from my childhood! 💚
I was so excited when you said the words woody and earthy because that's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the tea pot. Now I really hope you might find cups that Match the estatic of the pot.
Also in childhood trauma:
As a German kid growing up I have a shared trauma thing with people in my peer group. It was around easter over 30 years ago when they aired that specific animation of watership down for the first time in German TV. It feels like every parent/grandparent at the time saw the planned program, thought 'oh, animation, rabbits, nice, let's let the Kids watch unsupervised' and that's how a whole generation developed a fear of black rabbits.😅
Watership Down
omg yes, that book and movie are both traumatizing. I'll never watch/read them again.
I totally get it! I’m a huge horror fan but I can’t watch The Witches (1990) because my cousin made me watch it at 8… any other horror is totally fine, but I have never been able to watch that one or the remake.
That is a lovely mould, i think i would have done a golden yellow roof though
I love the customization with the mushroom handle--would be nice to add a few smaller mushrooms around the base. With the talk about The Hobbit, I was thinking it would be very cool to retrofit a round hobbit-hole door (but that's a BIG change!)
I love your mystery mold series!! I appreciate you take the time to finish the pieces and share your art ❤
I honestly thought that cutting off the top branch would look off, but that mushroom was absolutely perfect!
Oh my goodness!! It’s so beautiful tea pot. Your artwork is amazing on it! Good job! 👏🏻 😊
The Wizard of Oz when the Wicked Witch releases The Flying Goblin Monkey beasts scared the shit out of me when I was little...The Wizard Of Oz was shown on TV on Thanksgiving and I would go an hide and cry every year til I was 10 years old.🤣 Also the scary Child Catcher!
Absolutely you should make a set to go with! If I had a chance to paint that teapot, I'd have made it a very earthy fairy cottage. I likely would have added too many mushrooms and rendered the poor thing useless though. If you saw my art, you'd know what I mean about liking to overdo things lol. (I have two of my pieces from my current _Wondrous Women With Their Treasured Things_ in my yt shorts if you're interested)
Anyway, I'd probably make flower cups to go with the cottage if I were the one painting it, but something with birds may suit yours more. Regardless, you did such beautiful work on this.
The teapot is as adorable as you are!
So fun watching these mysteries unfold!
It is so cute❤
Shelob is terrifying! Many parts of The Hobbit are scary and when my parents took me to see the cartoon version in the theater, the fire scene scared me so much we had to leave. Shelby, I’m surprised you haven’t seen any LOTR films when it fits your aesthetic so well; have you read any of the books?
Don't stop this series
I love the mushroom handle. So much sturdier and easier to use without sacrificing asthetic.
Shelby Sherritt, awesome content you deserve more views
Jaws made me phobic of the ocean and sharks.
David Bowie in Labarinth scared the living heck out of me as a kid 😂😂
Love the grungy look! I live in a small black house and know how I would paint this up.. birch trees and bright green leaves, loads of grass and shrooms and perhaps a raven on the roof, just like my house has. Congrats on the find. But do not stop the mystery molds!!!!
Hi Shelby. I also am a potter and I read somewhere that putting a little LINISHING COMPOUND under the lip of the spout should stop the drip. LINISHING compound is used by metal workers to get a high polish. Hope this helps, Barbara
So, so cute! The colors are not "grungy" at all! The blue stones worked better than I thought it would! For me, would have tried to paint each stone a different color grey then put a dark grey wash over all. Changing out the little handle on the lid was smart. I think an acorn would be cute if you had a mold the Igor size. I understand your excitement when you opened it!
Oh my word! What a stunning job you did on the teapot!! And I love that, not only did you step outside of your norm to make it a bit grungy ( which is GORGEOUSLY DONE, btw), but you also added your own pastel style to the window! I love that! And the grunge really makes your pastel window just pop beautifully! What a beautiful job you did! I would LOVE to see you make a whole set like this! It’s absolutely stunning!
My eldest was traumatized when she was 4 yrs old when my mother thought it would be a great idea for her to watch the Dark Crystal movie. She had to sleep with the lights on for almost a week. I won’t even tell you what her younger sister (3yrs old) thought of it. Suffice it to say 19 yrs later she still is creeped out by puppets, animatronics, and marionettes.
Oh Dark Crystal did me in as a kid
What a wonderful find! (I am glad you are not really stopping the series!)
Yes to a full to a full set. You are amazing ❤
I'd DIE to paint that cute teapot! 😍😍
Omg how stinking cute is that tea pot. Also yes you absolutely should do a full set of them.
I am always amazed at how the colours just pop once the pieces have been fired. The teapot is adorable. Love the mushroom handle. Love the blues of the cobble stones and the orange cat. I would love to see a tea set to match the pot. Wouldn't it be cute to have the orange cat show up on the sugar bowl or the creamer. Would the cups have saucers?
so cute, I love the details on it. Love the window with the cat!
Looks really nice! you should have put a sliver of clay and dimpled it and put welcome home on the mat have it as a doormat would it be nice. If you get something like a 10 mm drill bit with the smooth end make an indentation right at the top right to the tip! that should prevent it dribbling you don't need a big indentation a couple of minutes, as long as it's bigger width wise than the hole spout, is the secret
My brother was terrified of the Never Ending Story. It was the giant turtle that made him scream and run.
For me it was Beetlejuice. Still frightens me to this day and I'm old! XD
OMG I'm an Aussie and was also taken to see the Hobbit puppet show as a kid! I only have great memories of it though, so I think I'll avoid looking up videos to keep my childhood recollections intact :P My family still pronounce the dragon's name in a super high-pitched voice the way I remember them doing in the show.
Your colour choices for this tea pot are so unique and beautiful. Really well done! If you do end up doing a hobbit hole inspired version I'd be on it immediately. I promise the first Lord of the Rings movie has no spiders if you were curious enough to face your childhood trauma a little.
I love the darker colors with the orange max! Its perfect for fall!
I would buy the teapot in a heartbeat ❤ lol its gorgeous. Brought back memories of me and my grandma having afternoon tea as a child. We both traveled to many countries and this was one of the traditions we picked up and loved to do together. She would make us tea biscuits and scones to have as well. I have two other teapots now a patient gave me years ago and that one would be a beautiful addition. I have a butterfly and a bird for handles on my two. Tea cups shaped like flowers go with the butterfly and two traditional porcelain to go with bird 😊ty for invoking my lovely memories
You definitely need to see Lord Of The Rings. The scary parts are well within an adult's ability to cope with it all, and the rest of the series is just stunning, thrilling, fun adventure.
A lot of kids will have nightmarish memories of Return To Oz, but for me it was a TV show from the 70s called Children Of The Stones.
Nope. Definitely the stuff od nightmares for the sensitive heart.
Each of your work is like a piece of art. Thank you for doing such a wonderful work 🎉 and I love your video for sure 😊
The colours you picked for that are amazing. Really love the teapot and the spice books ❤
I'm obsessed!! ❤
I was sceptical about the mushroom. I stand corrected. This is MY FAVOURITE TEAPOT EVER!!!❤ Also I'm pretty sure we saw the same Hobbit play 😂. The puppets were wild!! I think it did the rounds of all of Australia.
That is the most amazing teapot!
Oh my gosh! I love it so much! I would love to see a whole tea set!!
If you have a teapot with a spout that drips, you can buy little things to insert that stops that. My grandma had some, they are tiny metal loops with lots of bristles and you put it in like if you were sticking a folded up umbrella into the spout. The bristles hold it in place and the loop guides the tea out correctly. Grandma also had tiny sponges with elastic bands that she thread onto the spout, so as to catch any drips that ran after putting the tea pot back down.
It turned out absolutely darling.
Fun to see you enjoy it so much!
What a beautiful tea pot! I love all of the details and images on it. You did a great job on painting it and replacing the top handle with the little mushroom.
A lovely teapot! But i think I would give the mushroom another colour to match the rest, or possible put a few mushrooms on the pot itself to match the pieces better.
Lovely work!
Love you and love this series! I always look forward to it:)