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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Julian and I, celebrating Valentine's day at a local mocktail bar ❤️

My gorgeous fiancé Julian, and me. We are leaning against each other in a fancy mocktail bar. Neon lights are highlighting the shape of Julian's face, and it has a dreamy smile.

Two fancy mocktails sit on a bar decorated in an 80's vapour wave kind of aesthetic. A neon sign reads "SPLIT".

Two fancy mocktails sit on a bar decorated in an 80's vapour wave kind of aesthetic.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I finally made it back into the studio after a little break, it feels good to play with mud! I surprised myself by knocking out three nice little pots, intentionally sisters but not twins. I want to experiment more with shapes and proportions specifically in this family.

Three freshly thrown clay forms sit on a ware board covered in newspaper. They are slightly angular at the hips, with an emphasis on sweeping concave shapes. The background is a busy pottery studio.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

You're so close, Georgie!!!! I'm excited for you to meet your goal and get a service dog! I would love to see you draw Clover, if you've got the time ♥️

My mini schnauzer Clover, she has a phantom patterned coat in black with silver accents, she is looking quizzically at the camera while sitting in a yard full of clover (the plant).

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

It's a beautiful autumn day, and I'm grateful for the return of sweater weather.

Arlo, a white non-binary trans man with dark hair, a beard, and glasses stands in a park. He is wearing a fawn coloured sweater and a dark green plaid wool coat.

A photo of a park taken during my lunchtime walk. The leaves are turning yellow on the sprawling branches of the trees overhanging the walking path, and the sky is a beautiful clear blue.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The love of my life came to visit me in Edmonton for a month. We saw a lot of excellent live music, ate gourmet ice cream, and got engaged! Julian went back to California yesterday, and I'm already missing it terribly. ♥️

Two hands in the sunshine, wearing matching silver engagement rings. Both rings have a flat face set with a diamond and a garnet. An apple tree and raspberry bushes are in the background.

Julian and I, two white, masculine non-binary gays. Julian looks like a cool goth and I look like an old teddy bear from the 70's. We are standing in front of a starry mural outside a curio shop.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I spent the last four days at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival with my dad, and I had a fantastic time!

Me and my dad, we're smiling on a crowded hill full of other people, attending the folk festival.

Willi Carlisle performing on a stage outdoors, with people crowding to watch and listen to him sing.

Rainbow Kitten Surprise performing on the main stage at night, the lights from the stage are streaking into the dark sky.

Me, waiting for the train at the station after a full day of folk fest activities.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I sold the best mug of the batch to a young woman who was absolutely thrilled with it. She picked it up and held it to her chest while talking to her friend about how it was her soulmate mug, her soulmug, before passing me the cash for it. I was so happy she liked it, I hope the mug brings her joy!

A shapely mug, almost gourd-like, reflecting the human form. It has an upside down ear-shaped handle. The exterior is my homemade spearmint glaze, and the interior is dandelion yellow stroke-and-coat.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I've had a lot going on so I forgot to post about it, but I was a vendor at my first ever pottery sale a couple weeks back! I got to table with my pal Brim, which was a fun experience. I sold more pots than I expected and got to chat with a lot of cool people!

A 6' long table set up with pottery, in a community hall. My work is on the right-hand side, an assortment of different coloured mugs.

An assortment of mugs I made and had for sale at a pop-up pottery sale, after several of them had sold. A couple of these guys ended up selling, as well!

Me, a white trans man with curly dark hair and a short beard. I'm wearing aviator style glasses, a stripey white t-shirt, and am winking at the camera

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

LOL. LMAO even. I tripped over my dog Clover when we were playing yesterday evening, fell badly and fractured a bone in my foot. the crime vs. the criminal

$My leg, I am wearing an air boot. I fractured a bone in my foot.$ My sweet dog Clover, peeking through stair rails as if she's put herself in jail. She's a black and white mini schnauzer.

My sweet dog Clover, peeking through stair rails as if she's put herself in jail. She's a black and white mini schnauzer.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It might be hard to distinguish them, but these are two separate cups. They were thrown thick, and then carved into with different tools while leather-hard, an experiment with the pottery technique Kurinuki. I love how the spearmint breaks over the texture of these cups!

A Kurinuki carved cup, glazed in my self-mixed spearmint. It has a rocky and craggy surface reminiscent of mountains. I am holding it in my hand outside, where the sun can hit the glaze, revealing the matte crystals inside the glossy surface.

The same Kurinuki carved cup, from a slightly different angle, showcasing the glaze breaking on the inside of the rim into beautiful mint crystals.

A second Kurinuki carved cup, glazed in the same spearmint.

A slightly different angle of the second Kurinuki carved cup, glazed in the same spearmint.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Here's yesterday's green ashtray again, now pictured with its purple twin. These two pieces of pottery were commissioned by a dear friend in Illinois, and will be sent out in the mail shortly!

A tall ashtray with three joint rests, glazed in my self-mixed spearmint with a dandelion stroke and coat interior. I am holding it in my hand outside, where the sun can hit the glaze, revealing the matte crystals inside the glossy surface.

The same green ashtray, tipped to show the interior and the tops of the joint rests.

A tall ashtray with three joint rests, glazed in ravenscrag purple, splattered with linette's opal. The glaze breaks over the edges of the pot into a beautiful periwinkle blue. I am holding it in my hand outside, where the sun can hit the glaze.

The same purple ashtray, tipped to show off the glaze breaking on the rim and the tops of the joint rests.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Rushing outside to catch a little mid-morning sunshine, here's some better pictures of the pottery I got out of the kiln yesterday!

A curvy mug with an upside-down ear shaped handle. It's glazed in my self-mixed spearmint, with a dandelion stroke and coat interior. The separation between the exterior and the interior is knife-sharp. I am holding it in my hand outside, where the sun can hit the glaze, revealing the matte crystals inside the glossy surface.

Turned to show off how the glaze breaks in the handle, the same curvy mug.

Tipped so you can see how sharp the separation between the interior and exterior glazes are, the same curvy mug.

Tipped further to show off the interior, with my finger mark on the inside. Yet again, the same mug.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I need to take better photos, but please view how well my spearmint glaze turned out on these pots! Each time I use it, I'm happier with the results. I took these photos in the back alley behind the pottery studio, in a desperate attempt to catch some sunshine on a cloudy, rainy day.

A tall ashtray with three joint rests, being held in my hand. It's glazed with a semi-matte spearmint glaze, 4% copper carbonate and 6% rutile, it is a glossy warm green with cool mint matte crystals in it, especially where it breaks over the rim. The interior is dandelion "stroke and coat". Tipped so you can see the inside!

Another view of a tall ashtray with three joint rests, being held in my hand. It's glazed with a semi-matte spearmint glaze, 4% copper carbonate and 6% rutile, it is a glossy warm green with cool mint matte crystals in it, especially where it breaks over the rim. The interior is dandelion "stroke and coat".

An attempt at Kurinuki, a small cup made from marbled reclaimed clay cut into a landscape of textures. It's glazed in the same semi-matte spearmint glaze, 4% copper carbonate and 6% rutile. It breaks beautifully over the texture of the cup. I am holding it in my hand.

A different view of the samen
attempt at Kurinuki, a small cup made from marbled reclaimed clay cut into a landscape of textures. It's glazed in the same semi-matte spearmint glaze, 4% copper carbonate and 6% rutile. It breaks beautifully over the texture of the cup. I am tipping the cup to show the interior.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Sometimes a test tile isn't big enough, I'm taking my spearmint for a serious trial run. Both of these pots have dandelion stroke n' coat on the inside, and spearmint on the exterior, with an apricot underglaze runner. I have no idea how these will turn out, but we'll see!

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

They turned out... fine, lol, I've decided I'm happy with the base recipe! The first line is with added cobalt carbonate, 0.05% to 0.5%, and the bottom line is 1% to 4% lithium carbonate. It came out too grey for my tastes! Turns out I'd rather have a warm green 💚

Top cup is my base spearmint glaze, the first line is 0.05% to 0.5% added cobalt carbonate, and the bottom line is 1% to 4% lithium carbonate.

The original base recipe vs. 0.5% cobalt carbonate.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Busy weekend in the pottery studio! I made a bunch of test tiles for my glaze experiments, trimmed and handled a good amount of mugs, and even managed to throw a few more. I wish I had more time on the wheel, but it is what it is!

A bunch of extruded test tiles made of reclaimed clay, and painted with white slip. They have a few ridges on them to show how glazes will break over texture. The backs are smooth, which will show how glazes run.

Three leather hard mugs made of white clay, with fresh handles on them. They sit on a table in a busy pottery studio.

Four more leather hard mugs made of white clay, with fresh handles on them. They sit on a table in a busy pottery studio.

Two wet, freshly thrown pots that will later become mugs. One is curvy and the other has straight sides that taper towards the mouth before opening up, like a tankard. They sit on a ware board in a busy pottery studio.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I did a big test tile (AKA old bisque ware I'd never bothered to glaze) of my 10L batch (split with a friend) of the spearmint. It turned out nice, but the green is a little warmer than what I expected! I'm going to try adding a little cobalt carbonate to see if that suits me better (maybe 0.5%)

A small cup held in my hand in the sunlight. The glaze is an olive green, translucent and glossy with tiny light crystals throughout. The glaze breaks into a minty matte crystalline finish and pools dark at the bottom of the pot.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I had a nice run of pots come out of the kiln, and then heard a little tinkling noise coming from the shelf I placed them on... I checked for crazing and instead found one of my handles had broken! What was once an intact pot is now going into my smash bin. The joys and the misery of pottery, haha

$A wheel-thrown mug, fully fired and glazed in a nice glossy cloudy pink, with a matte yellow/buff glaze over the top 1/3rd. The handle has a little stress fracture on the interior, where it curves onto the body of the mug.$

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Testing testing testing glazes... I've just started putting what I've learned with regard to mixing glaze into practice, and I'm enjoying myself, but waiting for the kiln to fire and cool before I can see the results is going to be the end of me!

Two test tiles of a poorly measured crystalline spearmint glaze. The tile on the left is a decent representation of ~6% rutile, the tile on the right has much too much rutile in it.

Test tiles for a much more carefully measured line test of variegated slate blue, 3, 4, 5, and 6% rutile, respectively.

A test tile with raw glaze on it, from a fresh batch of spearmint I really hope I measured correctly because I made 10L and gave 5L of it to a friend. Only time will tell!

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I got to try my hand at mixing test batches of glaze at the studio. A surprisingly enjoyable process, I'm sure I messed up my first batch but am confident the other two will be good representations of the recipes I used! It was very tempting to drink the forbidden milkshake.... but I resisted.

A messy table, covered with the detritus of mixing glaze tests. There's a scale, notebook, immersion blender, and a collection of glazed test tiles among other things.

I am holding a cup labeled "chun celadon" in my hand.

Showing the contents of the chun celadon cup. A viscous, lightly mint and milky looking slurry. Delicious.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Just came out of the kiln yesterday, possibly my best mug to date? I'm so pleased with the handle, and while the glazes didn't interact the way I expected, the results are gorgeous!

A decently sized mug, thrown from white stoneware. It has an upside-down ear-shaped handle, made through a combination of extruding and hand-pulling. The base glaze is a cloudy pink, with a matte yellow opalescent glaze over the top half.

The same mug as the previous photo, but turned to show how the glaze breaks on the handle.

The same mug again, turned to show the pink interior and the intentional swirl of my fingermark at the bottom of the mug.

Once again the same mug, but close-up so we can see the way the glazes play together on the surface.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is, I think, the best piece of pottery I've made so far, and it was a throw-away experiment with reclaimed clay "just to see what would happen"

A small moon jar shaped vase, that has been alerted. A circle near the collar was cut out, inverted, and put back into the piece, so it has a round convex plane that catches the light differently. It's coated in AMACO's crystalline Mars glaze, which shows up surprisingly dark and silver on the reclaimed clay body of the piece. The interior and foot are unglazed.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Y'all wanna see some of my favorite photos of my boyfriend @nexusrasp.bsky.social and I, taken during my visit to California?

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A few pots I've made recently. I haven't spent as much time in the pottery studio as I'd like lately, but I'm trying to get back into the rhythm of things.

A freshly trimmed moon jar made of leather-hard white clay, held in my hand. The background is a pottery studio, including my messy workstation.

A purposefully collapsed thrown cylinder, made of soft leather-hard brown reclaimed clay. The folds look like the shaft of a well-worn, tall leather boot. It's untrimmed and sitting on a plaster bat in a busy pottery studio.

An altered moon jar made of leather-hard brown reclaimed clay. It has a traditional moon-jar shape, except for a round section that has been cut out, flipped, and reinserted to make a concave plane. It's held in my hand in the backroom of a pottery studio.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I've been working away on new pots but don't have much to show for it, yet. I've been making an effort to throw things that Aren't Just Mugs, so here's a recent moon jar, trimmed and ready for the greenware shelf.

Held in my hand, a leather hard stage vase shaped like a moon jar, round with a little lift. It has a small foot, and a narrow collar around its wide neck. In the background is a damp box filled with handled mugs and another little moon jar.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

I DO make non-mug pottery, sometimes. This is a yarn bowl for a very dear friend of mine

A good sized yarn bowl, sitting in the sunshine on the rail of my backyard deck. It's glazed in obsidian and opalescent.

The same yarn bowl, now held in my hand and titled to show the interior. The spiral at the bottom is mostly disguised by the glaze, but it's there!

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

Some additional pottery mug shots, I've had so many good pieces come out of the kiln recently!

A tall tulip shaped mug with an emerald-ish green celadon, with cun celadon over the top 2/3rds. It has a small amount of crazing in the glaze, and blue sparkles where the glaze pooled on the surface. I am holding it in my hand in my sunny backyard.

A different mug with the same glaze combination as the previous image. The mug is tilted to show off the spiral at the bottom of the pot. I am holding it in my hand in my sunny backyard.

A short tulip shaped mug with cloudy pink celadon, with cun celadon over the top 2/3rds. It has a small amount of crazing in the glaze, and lilac sparkles where the glaze pooled on the surface. I am holding it in my hand in my sunny backyard.

A different mug with the same glaze combinations as in the previous image. It's tilted so you can see how the glaze mimics the look of subsurface scattering, like sunlight is caught in the mouth of the pot. I am holding it in my hand in my sunny backyard.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

I think this is the best mug I've made in pottery class, to date

A mug with a round belly and a slightly flared neck. It has a small little foot. The glaze on the exterior is a stormy celadon. I'm holding it in my hand in my sunny backyard.

The same mug as the previous image, but tilted to show off the interior, which is glazed in floating blue. There is a spiral at the bottom. I'm holding it in my hand in my sunny backyard.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Here are my instructor's test tiles for these specific glaze combinations, for visual reference!

Two testing tiles, presented in my hand. The tile on the left is emerald-ish green with chun celadon over the top 1/2, the tile on the right is cloudy pink with chun celadon over the top 3/4ths.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

These lil' bastards have been bisque fired and glazed--very excited to see how they turn out. Most of them were glazed with a combination of cloudy pink or emerald-ish green (a new experiment by my pottery instructor) with chun celadon overtop.

8 pots, 7 of which are mugs, one of which is a bowl, stand on a messy glazing table in a busy pottery studio. The pots are a variety of different shapes and are covered in powdery pastel glaze which will turn glassy and rich after firing.

A closeup of a freshly glazed mug being held carefully in my hand, the glaze is still a little wet

A closeup of a freshly glazed mug being held carefully in my hand

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

It's been a bit since I posted pottery! Here are a handful of pots I handled, ready to go on the greenware shelf to dry out, and some freshly thrown pots. I feel like I've made a lot of progress lately and my work is headed in a direction I'm happy with!

A collection of 7 differently shaped mugs made of a white stoneware clay, which haven't been fired in the kiln yet. They sit on a work table in a pottery studio, my toolbag sits behind them.

A collection of freshly thrown pots made out if white stoneware clay, including one decently large bowl and 8 future mugs of different sizes and shapes. The pots sit on ware boards, on-top of a messy shared work table in a busy pottery studio.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Mugs from my pottery class' last kiln load of the year! I'm pretty pleased with the progress I've made since picking up pottery for the first time in March, and am very eager to take more classes when the studio reopens in January 2024.

A curvy mug made of a blended white/speckle clay. It's been glazed in two layers of floating blue, which has broken into a beautiful gold at the lip of the mug and around the side edges of the handle.

The same curvy mug from the previous image. This time I've turned it so the camera can catch a metallic palladium patch where the two layers of floating blue glaze meet. I'm not sure if this is from the glaze I used, or if it's a flash from a piece that was sitting next to it in the studio's community kiln.

A slightly convex curved mug made of a blended white/speckle clay. It's been glazed in a solid white and a hazy opalescent sage. The middle third where the glazes overlap is a hazy pink. The speckles from the clay body show through the glazes.

A close-up view of a mug with straight sides. It's made of a blended white/speckled clay. I glazed most of it in white, and then the bottom half in floating blue. The floating blue glaze has incredible depth, and the speckles from the clay body interact nicely with the two glazes.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Some more photos of the pieces I made in my "throwing large" pottery workshop! I'm really pleased with how these turned out, and I'm looking forward to making more large pieces in the new year.

A large hand-thrown vase (15 pounds of clay, 16.5 inches of height) stands next to two sizable hand-thrown bowls. The pieces are made of a smooth white clay and have dried to leather hard and have been trimmed, tool marks remain on their exteriors.

A large hand-thrown vase (15 pounds of clay, 16.5 inches of height) stands next to a sizable hand-thrown bowl. The pieces are made of a smooth white clay and have dried to leather hard and have been trimmed, tool marks remain on their exteriors.

A large hand-thrown platter made of white clay. It's still wet to the touch in this photo, because I forgot to take a photo of it, post-trimming. My hand is in the frame for size reference.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

I had a lot of fun in a "throwing large" pottery workshop this weekend and made several large bowls and a platter, but the highlight was using a combination of wheel throwing and coil building to produce this monster. 16.5" tall and nearly 20 pounds of clay! Please forgive the blurry photo.

A comically large vase with a pronounced shoulder and a wide flared collar stands on a stationary potter's wheel in a messy studio.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Only one of the mugs I glazed the week before fit into the last kiln load at the pottery studio--it's the one I anticipated liking the least, but it's now my favourite mug. The shape is SO pleasant to hold, and I really love how the glazes interacted with the clay body!!

An oddly shaped short mug with an indent around its middle. It's been glazed in floating blue with the rim dipped in opalescent. The speckles in the clay body have reacted with the glaze and added some browns and yellows into the mix. It is being held in my hand in front of a backdrop of houseplants

The same oddly shaped short mug, at a slightly different angle.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

I keep forgetting to post on bluesky!! Some trimmed pots from last weekend's pottery class, one handled mug, and baby's first four pound vase (ended up closer to three when I was done, lol)

Six trimmed leather hard pots of various shapes sit in disarray on a table in a messy pottery studio.

A freshly trimmed and handled mug, ready to be placed on the greenware rack.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Good news: I'm getting much faster at making pottery Bad news: I'm getting much faster at making pottery

Eight (8) bisque fired pots stand on a table in a messy pottery studio. They are mostly mugs, with one tumbler and one bowl in the mix.

The same pots from the previous image, but now they've been glazed. They are standing on a different table in the same pottery studio, this one covered in reminders about mixing and handling glazes. They will look very different after their next firing in the kiln.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Absolutely thrilled with how this oatmeal opalescent/white mug turned out, and satisfied with the teal mug. I trimmed and handled a few pots that I forgot to photograph, but all in all I think it was a productive day in the pottery studio!

A side view of a hand-thrown mug, made with speckled clay that shows through a glossy white glazed surface. The top half of the mug has glazed with an opalescent oatmeal colour that hazes purple and green. It's being held in my hand, in front of a backdrop of houseplants.

A top-down view of the same hand-thrown mug, made with speckled clay that shows through a glossy white glazed surface. The top half of the mug has glazed with an opalescent oatmeal colour that hazes purple and green. It's being held in my hand, in front of a backdrop of houseplants.

A close-up of the side and handle of the same hand-thrown mug, made with speckled clay that shows through a glossy white glazed surface. The top half of the mug has glazed with an opalescent oatmeal colour that hazes purple and green. It's being held in my hand, in front of a backdrop of houseplants.

A side view of a hand-thrown mug, made with speckled clay that shows through a glossy teal glazed surface. It's being held in my hand, in front of a backdrop of houseplants.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

And a few shots from Astotin lake in Elk Island National Park.

A shot close to Astotin lake in Elk Island National Park, a staircase rises on the left hand side of the image and the shore is to the right. It's autumn and the greenery has turned all kinds of beautiful colours.

Astotin lake, small islands are visible in the distance. The clouds have parted and blue sky is visible, reflecting on the lake's surface.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Some pics from Monday's hike in Elk Island National Park, these were taken on Moss Lake trail.

A wet and mossy little lake, bordered on both sides by scrubby brush and aspen trees that have dropped most of their leaves. The water is dark and muddy and full of life, and the sky is overcast.

Shot from a trail, with a little bench made by the park rangers in the foreground. A wet and mossy little lake, bordered on all sides by scrubby brush and aspen trees that have dropped most of their leaves. The water is dark and muddy and full of life, and the sky is overcast.

A beaver's ambitious project. A thick tree stands in front of a lake, a beaver has obviously been working at the base of it, trying to claim it for building resources.

Walking through a thickly wooded trail, my dad and his mini poodle Huckle walk together over a fresh layer of leafy hummus.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

They were so cute, and I got to see em really close up!

A swimming beaver headed straight towards the camera!

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

I went to Elk Island with my dad yesterday and we saw lots of bison! I didn't get pictures of all of them, but here are a few I got to see close up (from the safety of our vehicle, of course). Also: a very rare "wet bison".

A big plains bison (scientific name: bison bison bison) grazing on prairie grass, in front of a backdrop of aspen trees.

Three big plains bison (scientific name: bison bison bison) resting together on a field of prairie grass, in front of a backdrop of aspen trees.

A big plains bison (scientific name: bison bison bison) grazing on prairie grass, in front of a backdrop of aspen trees. It's on the side of a highway, absolutely not giving a fuck.

A wet bison (otherwise known as: a beaver) grazing on reeds emerging from the algae covered surface of Astotin lake.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

I trimmed and handled a lot of pots in my last pottery class, but somehow managed not to trim and handle *every* pot that I'd planned to finish? What a time consuming process, haha

Five trimmed pots, four of which have handles on them, stand on a table in a messy pottery studio. Three pots stand on a ware board in the background, not quite the level of leather hard I'd like for trimming.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

I'm still throwing pottery on the wheel, I just keep forgetting to post about it! Here are some pieces I've thrown recently that will become tumblers/mugs depending on how I feel about them after trimming, and a bisque fired mug that I'm exceptionally pleased with.

Four wheel thrown pots stand on a ware board in a messy pottery studio. Three of them are upside down because I was trying to encourage them to become leather hard. A diner mug shaped pot, wet and freshly thrown, stands front and centre.

Two boards with eight wet ware pots standing on them. The board in the back is the same board from the previous image. I'm not sure how to describe these shapes, but I've been trying to be more intentional with the forms I throw. Yet again, the pottery studio in the background is messy.

A bisque fired egg shaped mug stands on a table. I'm exceptionally pleased with it.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Trinket dishes I made in pottery class! I'm really happy with how these turned out, I mixed a speckled clay with a white clay 1:1. The last dish is a gift for my boyfriend, @nexusrasp.bsky.social

Various trinket dishes made out of speckled clay rest on a wooden chest.

A trinket dish with emerald green glaze that breaks sapphire blue, held in my hand in front of house plants. The speckles from the clay show through the slightly translucent glaze.

A trinket dish with a brown underglaze transfer of an owl layered over green underglaze transfers of leaves and berries, held in my hand in front of house plants. The speckles show clearly under the clear glaze.

A trinket dish with a black slip circle in the middle, sgraffito'd with a symbol from the band Coil. It is held in my hand in front of house plants. The speckles show clearly under the clear glaze, but are fully obscured by the black slip.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

I'm drinking coffee in this mug I made in pottery class and pulled out of the kiln yesterday, and an enjoying some apple crisp made from the last apples on my backyard macintosh tree. The last couple of weeks have been very busy, so it's nice to take some time for myself and slow down a little.

A large, straight-sided mug with a small handle, made out of red clay. It has green underglaze transfers in woodland botanical designs that have turned dark brown under an opal rust glaze. It's being held in my hand, viewed from the side. My backyard is in the background.

A large, straight-sided mug with a small handle, made out of red clay. The interior is a mix of cloudy and glossy textures, from the opal rust glaze I used on it. It's being held in my hand, I'm tipping it towards the camera to show off the inside of the mug. My backyard is in the background.

A large bowl of freshly picked macintosh apples. The bowl is resting on a deck railing, and my backyard is visible in the background.

A plate of apple crisp, held in front of the rest of the freshly made apple crisp. It's still hot and ready to eat.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

The best present I've ever received is this steam juicer from my mom, I get crystal clear jelly as a result! I've previously made jelly by cooking the apples and a stovetop and then straining the results, which is how my grandpa taught me, but the resulting juice is always a little cloudy.

A 3 tiered steam juicer viewed slightly from above. The lid is off and it's full to the top with quartered apples. It sits on the stovetop, heating up.

A 3 tiered steam juicer viewed from the side. The lid is off and it's full to the top with quartered apples. It sits on the stovetop, heating up.

A 3 tiered steam juicer viewed from the side. The lid is now on, and the tube the juice is going to come from is pinned to one of the handles. It sits on the stovetop, heating up.

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Arlo Everett🐰 @jackrabbit.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

I used up all of my previously picked apples for cobblers, pie filling, etc. This batch is going to become jelly.

A ridiculous amount of fresh-picked red and green apples, in two large rectangular plastic baskets. These are from my backyard macintosh tree. Maybe 80 pounds of apples, all together?

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