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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

1. Cactus Wren 2. Not in my neighborhood (I'm in the city), but I see them just outside the city limits in the desert while hiking.

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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

A Mandaic curse bowl in the Royal Ontario Museum. It has a spiraling Mandaic text that leads to an encircled x at the center.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Mars Rover Jewelry coming this Wednesday Dec 10th, 12pm PT ✨ A collaboration with my good friend @sciencesocks.bsky.social who turned the pendants into jewelry! To join our mailing list for this project: sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra...

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I appreciate the compliment. I loooove playing with clay.

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MagDo @trematomus.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

#Fishmas day 7: Sternoptychidae berry bowl. It works way better than I would have thought. #Ceramics, #pottery, #SciArt

Left edge of a glazed, footed strainer ceramic bowl. There are small holes in the front, a larger hole for the thumb in the back. A double band of fish in opposite orientation go around the bowl.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

This deep sea fish bowl is so cool.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

My last pottery restock of the year is live. This porcelain skeleton embedded in a mossy rock outcrop was such a fun mug to sculpt. #ceramics #pottery #womensart #skeleton #ceramicmug #porcelain #art #handmademug #coffeemug #ceramicart #ceramicsofbluesky #pottersofbluesky #potteryofbluesky

A porcelain mug with a sculpted skeleton (skull, hand and arm) embedded in a mossy, rocky landscape. Held by my hand. Primarily off white clay color with turquoise and green glazes in spots.

A porcelain mug with a sculpted skeleton (skull, hand and arm) embedded in a mossy, rocky landscape. I'm holding it by the handle, which is sculpted to resemble precariously stacked rocks. Primarily off white clay color with turquoise and green glazes in spots.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

They're plagioclase feldspar crystals. They are embedded into the clay during the greenware stage.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Here's a porcelain Anthropocene mug embedded with stones that I recently made for a long time customer. One of these days I'm going to keep one for myself. #ceramicart #porcelain #pottery #pottersofbluesky #womensart #skull #skeleton #geology #mug #handmade #clay #ceramics

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Thank you!!💗 I make a version with colors that are more true to the desert, but this color combo makes me happy

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

My landscapes always look like they're at risk of collapsing. Want a little precariousness with your favorite beverage? There's a band of igneous stones embedded and fired into the porcelain. #ceramicart #ceramics #pottery #pottersofbluesky #ceramicsofbluesky #porcelain #geological #cacti #desert

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Meet my Sky Islands clear glaze! The recipe consists of 90% locally scavenged calcium carb, quartz, and feldspar (1st photo). 2nd photo shows earlier attempts at making a clear desert mineral/rock glaze. #geology #rocks #minerals #ceramics #ceramicglaze #glazenerd #pottersofbluesky #artprocess

A porcelain test tiles showing a clear glaze made from the minerals and rock just behind the tile.

Three porcelain test tiles in the foreground. Left to right: The left tile is a gritty primitive attempt at making a rock glaze using local materials. The middle tile is another attempt using local materials that created a tan, cracking glaze. The right tile is finally looking like a clear glaze! Yay!

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Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Stunning: A pair of emerging stars in Lynds 483 have sculpted this radiant, hourglass-shaped cloud of gas and dust. In a few million years, each star could grow to match the Sun’s mass, leaving behind only a thin disk where planets might eventually take shape (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

You look a little down, have a bowl of cosmos #sciart

Bowl featuring star resembling CW Leonis and surrounding galaxies. (Side).

Bowl featuring star resembling CW Leonis and surrounding galaxies.

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MagDo @trematomus.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

For the fifth day of #Invertefest a minoan mashup cup, kamares ware outside, marine (and invertebrate) style inside. #pottery, #ceramics

Black clay cup with a white and red waves and circles pattern outside, marine creature with shell and tentacles inside

Inside of a black clay cup with two white marine creatures with shell and tentacles on the two sides.

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Today I want to share with you all one of my favorite #MacroPhotos I have ever taken. On July 18th, 2014 I had a magical encounter with this #dragonfly, the Great Blue Skimmer, #Libellula vibrans and I was able to capture this focus stack. #invertefest #insects #Photography #MacroPhotography

A photo of the face of a dragonfly with intense blue eyes from the front. The large blue eyes mottled with black spots surround the roundly rectangular pale blue central face area. There is a small black triangle at the top of the face between the eyes where there are three small oceli, small primitive eyes.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

My mom used to make those kinds of mugs, with a surprise at the bottom, but with something cuter like a lil frog. A roach mug definitely appeals to a person's ridiculous, mischievous inner kid. Harmless fun, until the mug gets thrown against the wall.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I have yet to hear from any customers about their piece meeting a violent end. Not yet...

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

That's a real concern! I kept one of my roach bowls (it had a glaze flaw) and I use it to scoop packing peanuts into packages. Every now and then, I get that automatic recoil when I first open the bag of peanuts and catch a glance of the ceramic roach 😂 It's such an instinctual response.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

The only scarab I have made is a dung beetle, with ball of dung of course. I have added gold luster, but have not tried any colorful metallics. That would look beautiful though!

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Happy to hear you like it :) This mug sold a few years ago. I haven't made roach mugs for over a year. Perhaps I should make a few for my next batch...

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

An older design to share for #InverteFest. Very few people enjoy seeing a #cockroach on a mug they're drinking from, which is why I just had to make these. Only a customer with a particular sense of humor brings this into their home. #potteryofbluesky #ceramicmug #ceramics #wheelthrown #bugs #roach

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Oh wow that is stunning! I bet you're brimming with new ideas...

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Thank you! It was fun trying to figure out how to depict those fragile legs/antennae.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I can imagine, they don't understand that you're just trying to relocate them. I've always used a twig to help them flip back onto their legs when they get stuck on their backs. They just grab onto the twig.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I agree 👍 Beetle bodies are so beautiful, so much fun to try to sculpt.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Thanks for the compliment and for sharing the link! I'll check it out...

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Another post for #InverteFest The Palo Verde Beetle, one of my favorite local invertebrates. They emerge during the monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert and freak people out due to their size and clumsy flying style. They're harmless and I love them. #beetle #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #pottery

Four wheel thrown stoneware mugs, each decorated with one Palo Verde Beetle that I sculpted and glazed with a black-brown glaze. The top exterior is glazed in sky blue and the bottom is left unglazed.

This sweetie is a Palo Verde Beetle clinging to a branch on a Sweet Acacia tree in my yard. They're notoriously clumsy and when they emerge I'm on the lookout for any that need help after accidentally landing onto their backs and need to be flipped over.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Sharing for #InverteFest (Reposted bc I got the hashtag wrong the first time!) I used to make tarantula mugs, this one was testing a neodymium glaze on the tarantula. Usually I glazed them in browns/blacks to resemble my local tarantulas. #tarantula #arachnid #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery

Wheel thrown porcelain mug with a tarantula I sculpted, glazed in a light purple neodymium glaze.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

A hike on Mars!

Yarn bowl featuring three hikers on a Martian landscape at sunset.

Yarn bowl featuring three hikers on a Martian landscape at sunset. (Left)

Yarn bowl featuring three hikers on a Martian landscape at sunset. (Right)

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

If you click on each photo you'll find more info, such as temperatures. It's been such an interesting side project.

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BERGΛMΛX @bergamax.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Pufferfish skeleton. 🐡 These bones expand when the fish puffs up, creating a near-impossible-to-swallow defense against predators. Fun Fact: pufferfish carry deadly toxins, even more dangerous than cyanide! ☠️ #nature #fish #skeleton

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