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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I posted a little story about a guy I just met showing me a photo of a pot - and it was something I made!!! And that story led to someone else saying she wanted to buy it!! I’m tickled.

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

#pottery There’s a certain joy in unloading a kiln and realizing you don’t have any shelves to clean up!!(ok just one little drop but it came right off!)

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

No kidding!!! No wonder the name of your shop!! 😊

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

It’s wonderful!! Thank you so much! Can’t leave a review till tomorrow but it will be done! Thanks so much!!

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

My husband is hard to buy gifts for. But he loves 🦕, & it was so awesome to discover @tannedtrilobite.bsky.social here, who makes leather wallets with dinosaurs. The wallet just arrived & his wallet items transferred to new wallet in minutes! Thanks Neil!! 👍 The perfect birthday gift!!!

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Was off SM for two weeks on a river trip. So nice to have been unplugged for a while. Now I have to get caught up! Got these 14 oz travel cups listed finally. Thinking of calling this glaze combo “moody blue”…

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

#pottery #ceramicbowls I sold out of my hole-y bowls, which was exciting because now I can make more of them! Looking to explore some fun patterning with the cutouts. I love the shadow play it creates.

Close up of a blue bowl that has round cut outs in various sizes at the rim, creating disparate patterns that allow light to go through and make interesting shadows.

Large bowl glazed in a seafoam green with a brown drippy rim. The interior has black brush strokes and red and yellow dot accents for contrast. The rim has round cutouts of various sizes in three parts of the bowl, creating an interesting negative space pattern.

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Finally finished the commissioned teapot/mug/infuser/drip plate set. Now I just hope it arrives safely!!! 🤞🤞

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Wish we could, maybe we’ll make the next one! Thanks for the info

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Just ordered one for the spouse who loves all things Dino!!!

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

#birds We have a pair of red tail hawks nesting nearby. I just saw one swoop right by our house- landed on our fence with his breakfast catch - a rabbit! I managed to get a photo out the window but also was able to get in the yard and capture more shots. Feeling excited and lucky I got to see this

Red tail hawk with a rabbit catch, landing on our fence.

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I’ve always said I wouldn’t do any commission work. I lied, as I agreed to make this tea set! The tea steeper fits in the mug as well as the teapot. And the drip plate can be used over the steeper to keep things warm, either in the mug/teapot. hope the glaze firing works out. 🤞 #pottery #teaset

WIP: teapot with matching tea mug. Matching infuser and drip plate next to the tea mug. Freshly trimmed and drying.

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

#pottery #rakuware #rakufiring I did a raku firing with my class last week. There was enough space for me to get these round vases in, a white crackle glaze. I wish I’d got darker crackle lines. The small dark spots are actually micro crackles.

Three round raku white crackle vases with a green rim. The crackles are varied in size, with some dark black spots that are actually micro crackles in the glaze.

Close up of a white crackle raku fired pot. The small dark splotches are actually micro crackles.

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

#pottery #lightplay I was using a small herb stripper one night for a whole bunch of herbs. Got sick of it filling up so quickly. So I made larger ones but also decided to play with patterns the holes make. Could also be a nice unique fruit bowl. Now to get them listed. Like my hole-y bowls?

Teal green shallow bowl with holes cut out on three sides. Black brush strokes on the inside with red/yellow dot accents on the inside for an abstract aesthetic.

Ocean blue bowl with holes cut out on three sides. Black brush strokes on the inside with red/yellow dot accents on the inside for an abstract aesthetic.
Places on a wood table in the sunshine , letting the light go through the punched hole patterns

Bowl with holes cut out on the rim creating a fun pattern, with mandarin oranges inside, a nice contrast to the ocean blue glaze.

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Yes, you’re right. “The porosity of earthenware also means that the clay… does not hold liquids well …the addition of a properly fired glaze will make a vessel water-tight.” From ceramic.school/understandin... Maybe the sealant will help. But wonder about the glaze you’re using?

ceramic.school

Understanding Clay Bodies Part 1: Earthenware - The Ceramic School

In Part 1 of our Understanding Clay Bodies series, we’re taking a close look at earthenware. Join us as we explore its fascinating history and unique traits.

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I posted this photo on my FB page. A FB friend (my hairdresser) messaged & asked if I have it in purple. Erm..not in the photo, so no. Then says she wants one. Please send pics of what I have. Done. Then she says : do you have it in purple? 🙄 ???!!!!???? #pottery #teamug

Mugs with matching tea strainers sit on a drip plate. A hand holds a blue mug above matching tea strainer on a matching drip plate. Mugs and strainers are partially glazed with scalloped edges on the mugs, in blue, green and brown.

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Oh that is a great idea!! I’m going to have to try that! Thank you for the inspiration!

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I lost my cat years ago and never got another as we travel quite a bit. I hated having to leave him, although we always had cat sitters. Last night, we had dinner with a friend who just got these two cuties. So nice to get a kitty fix! This is Poppy and Oliver. #cats #cuties

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Happy pride month! Some Ramen bowls with a rainbow colored design and mugs. (Close outs, available at link in bio) #pottery #soupbowls #largemugs

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Thanks so much, I really appreciate the comments! 😊

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Enjoy! if you have time the Ute Mountain Tribal Park is close by. You can make arrangements to take a tour there - various ones available- and cliff ruins there too. The difference is that they still have pot cherts there & stuff down there. Been there twice, loved it.

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Yeah there is one site they let you in at mesa verde, but not all. Always makes me want to go up and wander around her a sense of what it was like back then!

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

It’d be so great to be able to get up inside and explore that!

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Ermm… is that a good or bad thing for you? 😬

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Got out to Sequoia NP this last weekend. It was so impressive to see the General Sherman & Grant trees. But what hit me was that right now, it seems like it’s going to be such a long 4 years 😖 and yet these trees have stood for so very much longer, surviving. It felt hopeful. #resilience

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I happened to come across these photos from a few years back. Made some bottles and punched a hole through them & joined the edges. Put them in an anagram wood firing. And they actually pour fine! The holes make a nice handle! #pottery #anagamafiring #woodfiredpottery

A wheel thrown bottle with a hole right through it below the neck. Slip decorated with some red splatters and white slip. Bone dry piece

Two wood fired bottles, with holes right through them just below the neck. Fired in an anagama kiln, they came out toasty with slip decorated splatters.

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Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics @ttanceramics.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

berry bowls, with a drip plate. The first time I made these, I wasn’t sure what pattern to put in for the drainage holes. But I seem to gravitate always to a trio of dots and that’s what these became. I think they’re pretty sweet, what do you think? #berrybowls #pottery #kitchenware

A hand holding a small berry bowl to show the inside and the drainage hole patterns in clusters of three. A matching drip plate sits below it. Glazed in a rich ocean blue.

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