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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I saw the artist post these little bone stakes out of context the other day and thought they were cool then, but I’m completely obsessed now that I’m seeing them in use! Amazing.

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

These are so sweet, what a nice idea 🤍

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

They are LIVE! Follow the L!ňķ in my bï0 to check them out. My page recently reached 2,222 followers (on Instagram), to honor this milestone you can use code BCD2222 at checkout for 22% most items (coffins excluded). Tell your friends! #deathpositive #coffinart #pottersofbluesky #porcelain #nola

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

WIP from last week. I’m inspired by the work ethic of fellow studio members starting their holiday production, so I’m starting too! Coffin vase concept, group of coffin wall pockets, bolo ties, lace impressions. Have you checked out my online shop? I Just added some items! bonechinadesigns.com

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Summer is for slow livin’ Markets have come to a halt and sales are happening at a snails pace. I’m making an effort to take this season as a blessing in disguise, a time to stock up for the fall and winter. I have a new WEBSITE: bonechinadesigns.com #mementomori #southerngothic #nolaart #porcelain

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I’m playing music when I’m not playing with clay

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Five hours of work on botanical impression dishes in 1:25. Thankfully I was able to find another bag, but the studio I work at hasn’t been able to get the porcelain I use so I was really trying to get the most out of that slab. Nasturtium, fig, oak, and pomegranate. #southernart #porcelain #NOLA

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My market display at The Music Box Village in New Orleans over the weekend. My “fruit salad” collection is growing, introducing lemons and watermelon slices. #porcelain #charmbar #porcelaincharms #weirdclay #ceramicsofbluesky #neworleansartist #nola #neworleans

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Jackpot of doll part molds from the 80’s at one of the studios I work at. Look out for these being incorporated into the line up this year! #dollparts #porcelain #weirdclay #ceramicsofbluesky #neworleansartist

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Fresh picked strawberry charms! These were extremely popular at Gay Easter this weekend. I feel like I’m never able to make enough 🍓 #charms #charmbar #porcelaincharm #strawberry #porcelain #weirdclay #gayeaster #nolaclay #neworleansartist #NOLA #ceramics #pottery #handmade

A bowl of strawberries being held by the artist’s left hand over a blue and white background. Mixed with the fresh strawberries in the bowl is 10 hand sculpted, hand painted face charms with strawberries painted on them.

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Charm batch coming through for Gay Easter this weekend. Underglazed and bisqued, they’re cooling from their glaze fire right now. Who else lives in fear in the shadow of potential failure when firing a lot at once? Fingies crossed! #porcelain #weirdclay #neworleans #nolaartist #ceramics #charms

67 hand sculpted porcelain charms in their bisque stage. The charms are in the shape of faces, hands, coffins, butts, strawberries, and skulls on a round plate. Each charm is painted with designs of masks, clowns, art deco woman’s faces, and strawberries over their basic shapes.

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day. Day 16 - Porcelain bird skull wall pocket, February 2025 #deathpositive #mementomori #birdskull #ceramics #weirdclay #porcelain #memorialart #bonechinadesigns

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

04 bisque -> ^6 How they shrink! The struggle I have with charms is that I feel like I need at least 100 to make a good display. How I love making them! Here’s the latest batch for my upcoming Mardi Gras events.

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day. Day 15 - Porcelain broadleaf maple dish with gold luster, 2018 #porcelain #ceramics #weirdclay #nolaartist #botanicalart #botanicalillustration #nature #botanicalimpression #neworleans

Botanical impression of a broadleaf maple leaf in porcelain. The dish is the shape of the leaf of a broadleaf maple. The leaf dish is white in color with the veins of the leaf stained antique black, with gold accents.

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Second ornate wall pocket of the year. I’m about to make a larger version of this as a custom commission for a friend who wants to be able to have a live plant inside the pocket. I’m excited to go even bigger! #mementomori #wallpocket #handbuiltceramics #wallart #porcelain #weirdclay #ceramics

Porcelain sculptural wall pocket in the greenware stage of porcelain. The shape of the wall pocket is long oval, with the “pocket” covering a little less than the bottom half. The pocket is big enough to put a few fresh or dried flowers in. There are sculpted flowers, a bird skull, and ornate scrolls decorating the piece.

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day. Day 14 - Porcelain deer skull impression dishes, 2018. Do y’all think I should bring these back? #deerskull #porcelain #weirdclay #ceramics #20pots #handbuilding #neworleansartist #nola #clayart #taxidermy #bones #skull

Aerial view of four round porcelain dishes nestled on top of each other. Each dish is the impression of the top of a deer skull, showing the texture of the jigsaw-esque interlocking plates on top of a skull. The dishes are mostly white with the details stained an antiqued blackish brown. Each dish has a clear semi-glossy glaze making them slightly shiny.

Three round porcelain dishes. Each dish is the impression of the top of a deer skull, showing the texture of the jigsaw-esque interlocking plates on top of a skull. The dishes are mostly white with the details stained an antiqued blackish brown. Each dish has a clear semi-glossy glaze making them slightly shiny. Inside two of the three dishes are small pieces of jewelry, four rings and two earrings. This shows that the dishes are functional, and can be used to put your rings and things in while you’re not wearing them.

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day. Day 13 - Stoneware skull tea cup, made pre pandemic. #handbuiltmug #teacup #mementomori #skullart #weirdclay #ceramics #pottery #neworleans #handbuiltceramics

A single ceramic tea cup. The tea cup is made from a light colored clay body, glazed with a glossy white glaze. There are four skulls decorating the tea cup, so no matter which way the cup is facing there is always a visible skull. This is a small teacup without a handle and is designed to fit comfortably in one hand.

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day. Day 12 - Now for something lighter! Botanical impression dishes from 2024 and my booth display for Crafty Wonderland in PDX last year. Fern, daisy & forget-me-not. #botanicalart #porcelain #handbuilding #botanical #ceramics #clayart

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day. Day 11 - First attempt at lidded vessels, 2023. I’d just been turned down for production assistant at a ceramic urn business, I was bummed! The lids needed work but this was my first go at a keepsake urn. #deathpositive #urn #porcelain

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day for 20 days Day 10 - Sgraffito poppy tile, 2020. My mom bought this piece from my shop the moment I listed it online. I love that she has it, because I get to see it from time to time. #botanicalart #porcelain #ceramics #sgraffito

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The harvest (finished pieces) from Friday. I’m going to try to make another platter or plates this week, and keep the ball rolling on mini vases. My goal is to have a good batch at the Pharmacy Museum next month! #porcelain #mementomori #skullart #nola #neworleans #handbuilding #weirdclay #ceramics

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day for 20 days Day 9 - Finished wall pocket, for those following along! The first I’ve done with this particular flower and scroll motif. Alligator MC 299 Porcelain, cone 5. #weirdclay #handbuiltclay #ceramics #porcelain #nola #mementomori

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Every day I'm making my pots and feeling so good in the studio, and then checking the news and feeling absolutely horrified, then resuming my day...enjoying chats and jokes with my kids, trying not to show them the depths of my growing existential dread. Surreal. Ok more pottery pics🫠

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day for 20 days Day 8 - Skull platter! I sculpted this in 2020, but only finished it last spring because I didn’t have access to a large kiln. I have a similar one in the works at clay center of NOLA! #skullart #ceramics #art #mementomori

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day for 20 days Day 7 - Porcelain skull moths with gold luster from years past. Similar to the evil eye moths posted earlier in this challenge, but with gold! #mementomori #deathsheadmoth #porcelain #ceramics #neworleans #nolaart

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I love slab roller, I love heat gun, I love @claycenternola.bsky.social! Here’s some snippets from my day yesterday at the clay center making a skull-y platter. Excited to see it finished. #mementomori #skullart #porcelain #ceramics #nolaartist #neworleans #weirdclay

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day for 20 days Day 6 - 2023 holiday wall pocket batch. I’m currently working on another grouping of similar pieces and look forward to sharing them with y’all! #mementomori #coffin #skullart #skullpture #neworleansartist #ceramics #nola

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Caitlin Rose @caitlinrosesweet.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Some more of my functional work. Love making these witchy trays

A collection of handmade witchy ceramic trays filled with slices of dragon fruit and crystals

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Progress on some vases at the clay center yesterday! Firing at a group studio feels like having a saving account, but for ceramics instead of money. In my little kiln at home I can push through production quickly but this is nice for markets a little farther out - like the Pharmacy Museum in March!

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day for 20 days Day 5 - I’ve been slacking! I made this piece in 2018 after a trip to Venice, inspired by a painting on a crypt wall. #mementomori #venice #porcelain #skeletonart #skullpture #ceramics #deathpositive #neworleans

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Monitoring a very empty studio at Clay Center of New Orleans today. It’s slab time

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I’ve been struggling to pick current content to post, so here’s little Faith (me) wearing some of her early creations. I’m vending at the NOLA Jazz Museum tomorrow from 3-7pm for St. Brigid’s Day. Come say hi! I’ll have fresh pieces ✨

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day for 20 days Day 4 - Porcelain vase featuring five coffin faces. This was the first piece I made in my last home studio in Milwaukie, Oregon in 2022. #porcelain #ceramics #handbuilt #NOLA #mementomori #coffinart #coffin #coffinvase

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

First florals of the year coming through! After the historic snowfall and freezing temperatures last week most of the flora in N’awlins is looking pretty sad. Thankfully Harold’s plants was there to save the day with some early bloomers. Spring is on its way! #botanicalimpressions #flora #springtime

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Fresh bisque wall pocket! I’m going to try my best to hang onto it for awhile so I can continue the series. Maybe I’ll bring it out to markets as advertisement for things to come? More soon! ✨🌹🥀💀🪦🕊️✨ #mementomori #deathpositive #ceramics #pottery #wallpocket #porcelain #neworleans #NOLAart #skull

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Fresh bisque! Trying to stay on top of bird skull production while peppering in some pieces for Mardi Gras markets. #skullart #skullpture #ceramics #pottery #porcelain #neworleansartist #mementomori

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Choose 20 ceramic pieces that you have made. One piece per day for 20 days Day 3 - Porcelain ring box I made in early January (2024) which held wife’s engagement ring for my proposal to her. I couldn’t find box I liked, so of course had to make my own. #porcelain #ceramics #neworleans #handbuilt

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Had my first studio monitor shift at Clay Center of New Orleans today! Wonderful people and such a great space. If you have some basic clay knowledge, drop in on Tuesday from 1-5 and say hello. Slab roller!!! #handbuilding #slabbuilding #neworleansartist #pottery #ceramics #nolaclay

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One per day for 20 days Day 2 - Starting back in time and working up to present. A pair of porcelain evil eye moths with skull motifs. I believe I made these in 2017 and have been meaning to make more ever since! #ceramics #pottery #porcelain

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Baking is a big hobby of mine when I’m not sculpting. I have some kind of block on cooking and my wife thinks baking works for me because it’s like firing the kiln. Here’s a satsuma cake I made last night. I need to make a fun set of dessert plates!

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days. Day 1 - A commissioned set of porcelain and stoneware wishbone ornaments. I can’t remember exactly when I made these, it’s been some years now! Could be as early as 2014. #ceramics #mementomori #skullart #NewOrleans

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I absolutely love this piece! Something I’ve really been enjoying about this platform is how I’ve been constantly served up tons of fellow AMAZING ceramicists.

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A wall pocket I finished sculpting last night. This year I have the goal of making a series of larger work to be shown together. I love vending, but I’m feeling inspired to make some pieces without the purpose of filling out my table display. #mementomori #neworleasartist #ceramics #deathpositive

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Bone China Designs @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Piecing our studio back together after moving everything away from the wall to use our gas heater during New Orleans’ historic and snow last week. Charlotte has been building our gallery wall with works of our friends Violet Aveline, Rhea Adri, Reed Grossnicklaus (my dad) and my grandmother.

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Roselit Bone @roselitbone.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

New Orleans is thawing and it's finally warm enough in our house to get out of bed. Yesterday I (Charlotte) spent 8 hours recording bodhran and flute parts, today I'm finally finishing some leather belt and strap orders while Faith @bonechinadesigns.bsky.social sculpts porcelain wall art.

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Bell Pine Art Farm @bellpineartfarm.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I've been doing this for a long, long time from start to finish, from bags and bags and BAGS of clay, all the way through to the finished goddess sitting on your altar or shelf. www.bellpineartfarm.com

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Faith Noël McCaslin-Grossnicklaus @faithgrossnicklaus.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Looking to this basil, named Lily, for inspiration in these uncertain times. Found floating in my bowl at Lily’s Pho, tucked into a napkin, now sprouting roots in nothing but 9th Ward tap water during historic snowfall, in an bottle from a broken dump cap in Dead Horse Bay. #propagation #newgrowth

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