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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 18/09/2026

A little something special in the works for this holiday season! 😂 #Jimothy #makersmarket #holidaysale #pottersofbluesky

Getting closer to the proportions I think!

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 31/08/2026

#summer is a great time to look for fresh inspiration, maybe the colors of these suilis make it onto a pot one day! #blueskyartshow #inspiration #nature #freshideas

Suilis boletes don't usually grow in a clump like this, with wintergreen leaves sprouting through them. I love the way the deep terracotta kind of red breaks to reveal an intense yellow through the cracks, I think it would look lovely as a dinner plate, or big serving bowl!

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 31/08/2026

youtube.com/shorts/qfeve... Grabbed some goodies from my first trip to the supply store in years! #pottery #freshclay #marketprep #upcoming #sale #pottersofbluesky

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Fresh haul from the supply store!

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Beastie and Bone @beastieandbone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If this sound wakes you like a sleeper agent of nature nerdiness, my art is for you. #natureart #sciart #artsky #steam #womeninsteam #paperart #papercraft #paleoart #entomolgy #eyewitness #naturedocumentary

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕘𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕥🌴🐦𝕊𝕜𝕪𝕓𝕚𝕣𝕕 ℍ𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕟🦋 @margaretsiegien.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When the bird becomes the artwork. This is what happens when you stop chasing the shot and let the moment find you. 🌿📸 little blue heron 💙 #birdphotography #wildlife #birds #nature #photography

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Red-headed Bunting 18cm a migratory songbird Breed in Central Asia and wintering in South Asia. Eat insects during the breeding season then seeds and grains. Female builds the nest, incubates Once they hatch both parents feed the chicks. After they fledge on the female feeds for 2-3 more weeks.

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greytdog @greytdog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The GOP has always cheated...and harmed Americans in order to gain and hold power.

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Leg Spinner🏏 @judeet44.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the Dolly Parton hybrid tea rose.

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 08/08/2026

The #Blueskyartshow theme for this week is #Water so I thought I'd share this solar powered fountain I made a few years ago! This is my Minnows pattern, and one of the first that inspired my current line of work. #pottersofbluesky #fountain #solar #porcelain #handmade

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 16/08/2026

Can't be more on-topic for this week's #blueskyartshow inspiration than a wall hanging piece made from the #Earth itself! Porcelain, minerals, even precious metals brought together and joined by fire. #pottersofbluesky #porcelain #luster #clay

A wall plate, done in my Beach Rocks pattern, but with a base of pearl grey rather than the warm grey. This is my favorite design, and includes flashes of 18k gold luster.

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 16/08/2026

And since I couldn't pick just one, here is the pit fired mama bear sculpture from my Throw Along challenge for #blueskyartshow #Earth inspiration too! I'm pretty happy with her lovely smoke effects. #pottersofbluesky #pitfire #bear #sculpture

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 23/08/2026

One can always count on pets to bring an extra level of #Chaos to anything, like this already chaotic pit fired sphere shown here for the #blueskyartshow It is from the same firing as the bear sculpture! #pottersofbluesky #pitfire #smoke #sphere

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yellow Bittern 36cm belongs to the heron family, it blends into its marshy and reed-filled habitats, making it a master of camouflage Live in the mashy rice paddies, reed beds across Asia, India and Japan, Indonesia Diet: small fish, frogs aquatic insects Large feet allows it to walk on plants

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 30/07/2026

I can't believe I managed to get decent shots of last night's beautiful moon from my phone! #moonshine #lunar #phonecamera #absolutelynoideawhatthesettingwas

Despite the brightness and golden hue, this is actually the moon!

As with any exposure longer than half a second, there's some natural camera movement making things seem fuzzy, but the overall effect actually captures the ethereal vibes pretty well in this case I think.

I still can't believe I managed to get this out of my phone!!! The only other moon shot I've been able to capture like this was with my very first digital camera, that I literally put up to a telescope when I was a kid. I should dig my dSLR out of whatever box in my office it's been packed away into since I moved.

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 02/08/2026

The tagine I made as part of my Great Pottery Throwdown make-along challenge was almost too #big to fit in my oven! #blueskyartshow #tagine #cooking #cornishhen #fromscratch #handmade #pottersofbluesky

Watching the 2026 season of Great Pottery Throwdown, and for the first time I was able to glaze the pieces I made! This is a tagine, in a pattern called Dalton's Brookie, named for a dear friend. It's one of the largest pieces I've made, and I'm incredibly proud of how it turned out!

On the show, they made a brazier to cook over, but porcelain does not like that at all, so I made something more like a trivet, to keep the tagine off the table straight out of the oven. I use these same colors in other work as my Beach Rocks pattern. I sculpted the trivet to actually look like stones to give it the feel of a brook trout in a riverbed.

It was almost too big to fit in the oven! Luckily I was able to lower the rack a little bit, and it was perfect!

The first time I've ever cooked in a tagine, I roasted a Cornish hen with lemon, onion, carrot, and sweet peppers. Seasoned with cinnamon and ginger. It was absolutely delicious, and the fact that I made something big enough to literally roast a hen was incredibly awesome!

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 19/07/2026

I am not the type of ADHD that keeps a ton of plants, but this little succulent has been #growing in one of my early attempts at a bell for a couple years now! This is the second time it's flowered! #blueskyartshow #notafailurejustaplanter #apparentlyaprettygoodone #succulents #flower

This is the second time I've seen this little guy flower, it's planted into an early attempt at a bell that warped in the glaze firing.

The flower stalk reached up over the top of the window pane in just a couple weeks!

The flowers don't even look real, it's like they're made of that ultra-thin shipping foam stuff.

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 25/07/2026

Doing some experiments with wild clay this week! #pottersofbluesky #wildclay #testing #experimental #jimothy

Bits and bobs of some experimental clay!

Bars are a great way to test out the properties of different clay bodies. Cut to 10cm, once fired it's an easy way to calculate shrinking and absorbance for glaze.

A few pendants, beads, worry stone type things from scrap bits of a new clay I'm testing out

I have no idea what color this clay is actually going to fire to, but hopefully Jimothy is able to keep things under control in there!

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 26/07/2026

I'm playing around with thrifted #glass lampshades, hopefully with some interesting results in this round of firings! #blueskyartshow #pottersofbluesky #lamp #thrifting #wheelthrown #porcelain

I had put this globe on a bottle form at first, but I think I like it on this little pedestal base better. It almost feels like a crystal ball, I'm going to look for a color changing LED to fit!

This style shade was my original plan for lamps, on a bottle kind of shape, but I ended up liking it on this SUPER narrow form even better!

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 28/07/2026

Such a hot, humid summer season, I'm designing a nice pitcher for lemonade! Still not entirely sure about the spout though 🤔 #pottersofbluesky #porcelain #pitcher #lemonade #icedtea #wip #refresher

I'm trying to go with a similar body shape as my teapots, but I'm still not sure it really works with a pitcher style spout 🤔

Finally found my signature stamp, and it feels good to be getting back to business!!!

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 11/07/2026

Nothing beats a #quiet morning with a cup of good coffee, especially in one of your own mugs. #BlueskyArtShow #pottersofbluesky #coffee #slowmornings #handmade #mug

Good coffee in a small mug I made, in my Beach Rocks pattern, with a dock cleat handle. I like to imagine the kind of world where all mornings could start like this.

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The Muttshroom @themuttshroom.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I haven't seen a Clearwing Hummingbird Moth in years! What a great day! Red Breasted Grosbeaks too, which is another new one for me! #hummingbird #moth #nature #rarefind #clearwinghummingbirdmoth #themuttshroomchronicles #MaineAdventure

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 03/07/2026

Trying to get things done while also not completely melting in this disgusting, suffocating humidity 🥵 #heatstroke #pottery #tiles #handmade #pottersofbluesky #porcelain #workinprogress

Starting with the smallest pieces, I'm incredibly excited for this new project! I've got to get a LOT of these done by the end of the month!

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 04/07/2026

The prompt for #blueskyartshow this week is #wide so I thought I'd share a photo from the lovely day out on the river, with water smooth as glass reflecting wide open skies. #nature #river #MaineAdventure

The water was so smooth on the river it looked like a perfect mirror. All around gorgeous day out!

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Jim @jims55.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Got an unusual visitor at the feeder this evening. The crows seem unconcerned though. (The second clip is from an upstairs window)

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 05/07/2026

I'm not sure whether this marks the end of an era, or the beginnings of a new Revolution, but it was hands down the greatest fireworks show I have ever seen. #twohundredfifty #outwithabang #revolution #iscoming

Fireworks are one of my favorite things to photograph, trying to get the right kind of shot without knowing precisely where to look is such a fun challenge

The pyro in me is always thrilled with pretty fire, which is at war with the environmentalist who wants to protect all the animals.

I'm interested to see where things are heading as drone shows seem to really be taking off. They don't have the same kind of magic as fireworks, but that seems a small price to pay for animal's welfare.

Whether to mark the end of an era, or the beginnings of a new Revolution, this was the greatest fireworks show I have ever seen!

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The Muttshroom @themuttshroom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What a gorgeous day for a paddle! Saw a giant snapping turtle, found some wild onion, and even my first porcini! #nature #summertime #themuttshroomchronicles #foraging #sunshine #wildlife #MaineAdventure

The river was smooth as glass, hardly even seems real!

This is apparently some kind of wintergreen? The leaves don't look right to me, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 05/06/2026

While I appreciate how full and lush celandine looks, it is invasive, toxic, and yellow so out it goes! Replacing it with sweet fern, which is native, whimsical and delicious! The roses were too perfect to resist while at the garden center trying to find a scythe 😆 #landscape #garden #nativeplants

The flowers are celandine poppies, which produce a bright orange latex when broken which is really cool. As wonderfully luscious and full as it looks, they're also invasive, toxic, and yellow so I'm ripping them all out. Pretty shallow root systems so it was actually pretty easy.

This is Sweet Fern. The leaves and the weird little nutlet spiky things are edible, and quite tasty. It is native to my area and will hopefully fill out the border in place of the celandine I ripped out. I'll add some hostas and fiddleheads into the mix back there too, making the whole back border garden edible 😁

I absolutely love sweet fern. It smells amazing, it tastes good, and the way I describe it's looks; The result of a Fern's one night stand with marijuana.

The sweet fern I intended to buy, I'm excited to replace the invasive flowers taking over the edges of the property with delicious natives. These roses on the other hand, were just too stunning to pass up! This is without any sort of filter or enhancement and they look unreal! The color is more of lilac's purple in person, my phone wants to make them an intense pink for some reason.

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 16/06/2026

The bookends I made with Throwdown have color, and now the perfect spot to display them! I am SO HAPPY with how they turned out! #bookends #literature #handcrafted #pottersofbluesky #pottery #throwdown #booknerd #slabbuilt #mushrooms #blacktrumpet #foraging

I finally bought another cabinet and reorganized all my books, lol. Love the way these fit on top!

A close up of the bookends, the one on the right was broken, and it leaned a little too far trying to glaze it back together. I haven't decided if it's worth risking one more kiln to see if I can get it to level out.

This is the bookend on the left side, LOVE how it came out! The colors are spectacular. This set was based on Black Trumpet mushrooms and I think the colors came out spectacularly.

This is the one that leans forward a little too much, other than that I think the colors came out amazing!

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 21/06/2026

Apparently I wasn't actually following the #blueskyartshow feed, but today's theme is #curve so I thought I'd share the wall hanging version of my wreath vase! I'll be keeping better tabs on the fun going forward, lol #pottersofbluesky #porcelain #wreath #vase #wallart #flowers #ceramic #pottery

I had the idea to throw a donut shape as a vase a few years ago, but didn't have the means to fire it for a long time. My kiln is up and running, I was part of a gallery show in March and finally got to see my idea with actual flowers in it!! Those are real. Long and thin stems fit down either side of the circle, which is hollow so it can actually hold water for them.

Similar inspiration to the vase my cat so graciously modeled for me back in the spring, this one actually hangs on a wall! It does hold water, and thin, long stems fit into holes along the top and down the sides.

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The Muttshroom @themuttshroom.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Forcing people to spend the better part of a day like this inside generating shareholder value should be criminalized. Gorgeous sunshine, not hot, with saffron honeyed strawberries for breakfast and people have to go to a JOB when days like this exist? Bullshit. #hobbitlife #capitalismisascam #relax

Sliced strawberries, with orange blossom honey and saffron. 1000/10 highly recommend, best eaten on a lounge chair wearing a big hat and sipping mimosas.

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Carmen Harris🇿🇦 @carmenharris.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

🤩American Kestrel deep dive. Toronto, Canada, April 17th 2026. Sony A1 I| 300GM 1/4000s, F/5.6 ISO 1600

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 23/04/2026

Playing around with some lamp forms! The base is too short for both of these, but I feel like it's a good direction. After some more experiments I'll probably put it to a Patreon vote one day for which goes into production. #pottersofbluesky #lamp #thrifted #vintageglass #handmade #porcelain #ideas

The porcelain bottle body of this shade is too short, and I think this style of glass will look better on an extremely narrow body, more like a vintage lamp post.

Too short for this globe style shade as well, but I actually really like the way it transitions into the shade, it has a nice and solid presence about it. Another 3-4 inches in height, and a little wider at the base and I think it's there.

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 30/04/2026

Not really anything in the way of colors, but I did get some lovely smoke effects! #pitfiredpottery #peek #results

Just some browns mixed in with grey and black, but the copper scrubby mesh did leave patches of texture on a couple pieces, and the smoke textures are nice. I'll be posting the individual works later on.

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 30/04/2026

I forgot to tag the original apparently, but #pottersofbluesky #pitfire #chaos #pottery #alternative #nokiln #fire #art

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 15/04/2026

I forgot to post more of the photos of the show pieces from a couple weeks ago! I love any opportunity to use fresh flowers. #pottersofbluesky #bloomscroll #floral #show #newwork #artshow #freshcutflowers #display

A small bottle vase that was in the March show

A large bottle with hyacinths, featuring my newest design Rain!

A bottle vase I made back in college, but I was particularly pleased with this arrangement with the leftover flowers from the March show

The smaller of the wreath vases I had in the March show, this one hangs on the wall

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Kristin Wilkinson 🍁 @silentkw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Happy Birthday David Attenborough! #art #drawing

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SoundOfTheForest @soundoftheforest.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Here’s a little sneak peek of the largest insect painting I have done so far! I just got it photographed so print will be available in a few weeks. I am so excited to show everyone the entire thing!

A close-up of a corner of a painting with a large variety of insects placed on a white background

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 15/05/2026

Went the opposite direction and made a very low base for this globe shade, and I kinda like it! Definitely going to find a flickering flame, or maybe even color changing bulb! What sort of place would you put it? #pottersofbluesky #lamp #light #glow #wip #porcelain #wheelthrown #vintageglass

The globe lampshade actually looks nice on a very short base, I'm picturing it tucked into a nice bookshelf for a quiet ambiance.

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 07/05/2026

I was intending to do this lamp in two parts, with a top more like the initial bottle form I made, but I think I actually like this idea even better, just pull a bit more height out of it now that it doesn't have to support more weight. #pottersofbluesky #lamp #progress #testform #porcelain

I was intending to put a second piece on this, about the same shape just the other way around, but I think I actually like how the glass follows that line to complete the curve on its own.

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Foxtail Studio @foxtailfcs.com · 21/04/2026

So glad I have someone to proofread my application for a teaching position with the local charter school 🤣

Fennel takes her proofreading duties very seriously, her summer adventure plans are on the line here!

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