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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

This one took a while to fire because it was a bit of glaze on the bottom, so the studio wouldn’t fire it (ooops…) but it’s finished now! #pottery #sliptrail

Stroke n coat wonderglaze bottles next to a ceramic pot with some color already applied

Red ceramic pot decorated with the outline of a protea flower sliptrailed with white slip.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Slurp bowls! I gotta make more of these, I love them so much. (Even with the colors running under too thick clear…) #pottery

Tan and dark neon marbled ceramic bowls with cherry blossom decoration on one area. The bowl edges have been folded down twice for chopsticks to rest on, forming an area to slurp from between

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

A couple more sippy cups. Does everyone else love to drink from these? Or is it just me? #pottery #sgraffito

Ceramic cup with sipping top. Decorated with blue snd black underglaze carved into a fish scale pattern

Ceramic cup with sipping top. Decorated with blue snd black underglaze carved into a geometric wave pattern

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

On a “off” throwing day, I had to really fight to not waste some clay I had wedged together. This planter originally had a saucer attached… until I over-trimmed it. oops. #pottery

Dark brown and cream clay ceramic pot with green monstera leaves added to the surface with details carved in.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

This was so easy and quick! I should have left the juicyfruit glaze off the top, but I see more of these in my future! #pottery #fauxbois

Brown ceramic plant pot carved on a faux bois design.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I made two raised kitty bowls, but we dropped one and broke it. And then dropped and broke the other! So I made three more… but with HANDLES. We’ll see how long they survive… #pottery

A ceramic bowl with stabd, with two tabs on the sides. The inside is light blue and the outside is glazed with cream colored glaze. Two other bowls are in the background.

A ceramic bowl with stabd, with two tabs on the sides. The inside is pink and the outside is glazed with cream colored glaze. Two other bowls are in the background.

A ceramic bowl with stabd, with two tabs on the sides. The inside is blue and the outside is glazed with cream colored glaze. Two other bowls are in the background.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

A new little favorite! A sippy cup with a honeycomb pattern carved into underglaze. #pottery #sgraffito

A ceramic cup with a sip top. Honeycomb pattern is carved into the Yellow, orange and pink colors painted on randomly, revealing tan clay.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I made some self-watering pots! Only… I fired it normally to cone 6 ish, so this Ironstone clay is pretty much vitrified, and not porous. Ooops #pottery

Round Black clay pot with brown to tan drippy glaze on top half of the top Pot and the enclosed.

Angular Black clay pot with brown to tan drippy glaze on top half of the top Pot and the enclosed.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

A bowl to match the mug! I like the green colors of the mug better, but the bowl also turned out nicely. #pottery #sgraffito

Ceramic bowl with mountains carved in blue underglaze revealing cream clay beneath

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I like this little mug to be donated to a meals on wheels fundraiser. It was a bunch of different green underglazes brushed on randomly, then carved. I like the bright green colors.. #pottery #sgraffito

Bulbous mug with a mountain scene carved into green colors randomly applied.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

My wife said this looked “rustic”, which is not what I was going for.. ooops… still figuring out glaze techniques! #pottery #sliptrail

A hummingbird flying up to a flower painted on a reddish brown clay bowl.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A black capped Chicago! This bowl is part of my peacock experiment, but the outside was decorated with Mishima and Amaco Semi-moist underglazes. #pottery #mishima

A light tan bowl decorated with a Black capped chickadee.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

An experiment! The bowl on the left (darker clay) was glazed with the peacock method using V’s of flux. The light bowl on the right was glazed with W’s of flux. Same three rows of flux, same colors of Stroke n Coat in each, same Sandstone top coat. The V’s are sharper! #pottery #peacock

Two bowls with flowing glaze in blue, tan and yellow colors. The bowl on the left is darker and has thinner drips and the bowl on the right has more flowery drips.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

It had to be fired twice (apparently the clear glaze was too thick, so it needed a re-melt to clarify the cloudiness in areas…) but I think it’s finished! #pottery #sgraffito

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

My sliptrailed poppy bowl is done! It may seem obvious, but I just found out that thinner slip is much easier to use… ha! #pottery #sliptrail

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

My bookend pots survived the bisque, and the glaze firing!! I’ll have to remember that 1 coat zinc free clear turns out with expected results! #pottery #sliptrail

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Here it is finished! You can’t see the inside, but honestly, it’s not super exciting: it’s kind of a red-ish brown… #pottery #sgrafitto #origami

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I like this black clay. I got it pretty smooth while trimming, but I’m excited to see the roughness contrasting with the white clay origami after it gets fired. What should I glaze the inside with? #pottery #origami

A black pot with white origami cranes painted and carved on it with a big bag of jelly beans behind it.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

At the end of the night, I decided to throw big. It’s walls are thicker than I’d hope, but this bowl currently weighs 10lbs. #throwbigorgohone #pottery

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Ii think I like throwing things because it’s quicker and a more even surface for decoration. Drawings just look so good on clay! #pottery #sliptrail

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

A set of book end planter pots are ready for the bisque firing. One had a crack in the side so crossing my fingers it survives the firing. #pottery #sliptrailing

Two red clay pots with prickly pear cactus drawn on them in white slip

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I made a set of taco stands. I hope they dry without cracking: they’re supposed to be a gift for my sister, and I have two weeks to get them done. Ha! #pottery

Four clay taco stands lined up together.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This pot is the tiniest little thing! The inlaid design looks super intricate, but it was MUCH bigger originally. And the snake’s tail disguises the side of the lid that doesn’t fit… #pottery #mishima #lemonstolemonade

Tan lidded pot with plant designs inlaid, with a grey 3d mouse at the bottom, and a red 3d snake coiled on the lid

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The dog knocked a ceramic kitty bowl out of my hand and it broke on the floor. So I made a pair of kitty bowls. I should have made the ridges a bit deeper… @ao-pottery.bsky.social I’ll get it right next time! #pottery

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I love the feel of unglazed clay after the glaze fire! This ceramic sippy cup for my sister feels so nice to hold. #pottery #sgrafitto

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I love this brown bear clay. It’s so smooth, and I love the way the raw clay looks after the glaze firing! Not sure what to do with this shower, but I like the way it turned out. #pottery

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Here’s the finished spoon rest. A little glaze crawling, but the underglaze didn’t run under the clear glaze, so I’ll take it! #pottery

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Another clay test, this time with New Mexico Clay’s Ironstone. Nice groggy texture, even when smoothed at each step. And it didn’t seem to bloat or off-gas, even when glazed on both sides!#pottery

Dark grey vase with vertical texture carved into it

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A spoon rest for my mama! The glaze is a bit of an experiment…(as all my glazing is… ha!) it’s dipped in a blue glaze, wipes off and then stroke n coat painted on. #pottery #strokencoat

Bottles of underglaze and a spoon rest with a frog painted on it.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Done carving a small lidded jar. Hopefully the underglaze doesn’t run in the glaze firing! #pottery #otomi

Round pot with lid, with a deer and bird and floral designs carved through blue to reveal brown clay.

Round pot with lid, with an armadillo and floral designs carved through blue to reveal brown clay.

Lid of a round pot, with bird and floral designs carved through blue to reveal brown clay.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

A cute lidded jar with goldfish! Stroke n Coat (so far) has always turned out how I picture it in my head. And I love this color of clay. Unfortunately, it’s recycled clay, so I have very little idea what is in it. #pottery

Light tab pot and lid with goldfish carved into it and painted with orange, yellow, black and white.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

One of my faves! A pot made for a friend, with a play on words… ha! #pottery

Green ceramic pot with lid with a brown faux wooden plaque that says Tony’s Pot

White clay pot with lid with a faux wooden plaque that says Tony’s Pot

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I love the idea of marble clay! I’m not super good at it yet, but still love it! #pottery

Round pot with grey glaze on the outside and horizontal bands of marbeled clay on the inside

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

My crane bowl is finished! Turned out almost exactly what I was picturing! It’s a little heavier than I wanted, but not much! #happypotter #pottery

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Testing new Sandia Red Clay. I used about the same amount of clay, same slip, same Stroke n Coat colors, and same floating green glaze. The round one was fired at cone 5/6, the straight walled one fired higher at 6/7. The difference is pretty minimal… both fired darker than hoped.

Round red clay bowl with white slip-trailed leaf vines with colorful leaves.

Straight-walled red clay bowl with white slip-trailed leaf vines with colorful leaves.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Our little kitty eats too fast sometimes and pukes. So I made this slow feeder for her. Being full of sass and attitude, she does NOT appreciate being slowed down. (Or maybe she doesn’t like the potential to chomp on ceramic with her teeth?) It may be a perfect and useless piece. #pottery

Pink bowl with raised ridges in the bottom forming three rings for food to settle in.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

My set of lidded bowls are finished! One of the stroke n coat colors (I’m thinking it was the Salsa color…) fired white, but pretty pleased! #pottery #peacockglaze

Bowl decorated with a fish design, and a lid hanging off the side of the bowl

Bowl decorated with a dragon design, and a lid hanging off the side of the bowl

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

While I keep an eye on our dog, (she had surgery on her tail…) I’m keeping myself busy with at-home pottery! She’s not impressed my my efforts and fell asleep… #pottery #sliptrailing #underglaze

Brown clay planter pot and attached saucer with Otomi designs.

Brown clay spoon rest with a frog painted on it in black underglaze

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Unfortunately, the underglaze on thus delicate Mishima design ran in the glaze firing! I’ve read slip avoid this issue, so I’ll try agin with slip sometine… #pottery #mishina

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

If all my mug handles came out crackless and nicely attached like this one, I might make more mugs. Of course, if I made more mugs, maybe I’d get better at handles… #pottery

Ceramic mug with shiny dark blue glaze on the top half and raw white clay on the bottom half

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I’m into lidded bowls lately. Not sure why; I eat so fast, a lid is fairly useless. These got glazed this weekend! #pottery #sgrafitto

Two dark clay bowls with lids. Each has a band of white clay, with fish carved on one bowl, and dragons carved on the other.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Close up of a bowl I glazed entirely with Juicy Fruit, the fluxey glaze that probably “texturized” my lidded whale pot. It’s an amazing glaze and contains entire galaxies in its depths! (But the sharp cracks in it make this bowl not food safe, and risky to touch… ha!) #pottery #lookdontouch

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This pot was gonna be great! But it was ruined in the glaze firing. Or maybe it just added a bunch of unexpected texture… My theory is the fluxy glaze I used on the insides needed to offgas… Lesson learned! #pottery #ooops

A blue pot with waves carved in the surface. The lid has a cartoon whale as a handle.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

It may be overdone, but I love me some peacock glazing. This will get a Cenote top glaze, then into the kiln!

Blue and white glaze dripped along the inside of a bowl.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Still love this little slab-built planter. Mayco Stroke n Coat colors always turn out how I expect! #pottery

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Martha Rich Art Projects @martharichart.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

A poster for the economic blackout on February 28. It is a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

One more bowl to carve in this set of two Donburi (or maybe Chawan bowls?) I do better when I have a clear theme: the desert Otomi carving is turning out better than the random-turned-wetlands themed set. Ha! #pottery #sgrafitto

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I’m pretty happy with how this origami bowl is turning out. Can’t wait until it’s bisqued! #pottery #sgrafitto #wip

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I’d like to blame this on en experiment gone wrong, or a kiln issue, or even throwing error (uneven walls, too thick of foot, etc…) but nope. Was excited to bring it over to the table and dropped it on the floor… So maybe it WAS a throwing error. Ha! #pottery #bowlstoryshort

large pieces of a broken ceramic bowl with shards showing filled abstract wave carvings on the outside edge and float drippy glaze effect on the inside.

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Elainerope @elainerope.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days in no particular order. Day 20: 15lb starting weight planter pot #20pots #20days #pottery

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