Failure IS an option

The Återvinning Bucket for December

(I made six christmas tree wax melt warmers, and didn’t make enough holes for the candle flame to get enough oxygen - the tea light would not stay lit)

In English for now….

So many people ask what I do with all the pottery I’ve made over the years. The short answer is A) There really hasn’t been a lot because B) Most of it is failed experiments.

I look at You Tube videos of production potters (like Florian Gadsby - a machine) who can make 30 or more identical mugs in one day, use the same single clay type for years, or fire everything with their one “signature” glaze. I, on the other hand, can’t do the same thing twice. Part of that is poor note taking (GOT to get better at that), but the other is just uncontrolled curiosity. What if I mix this clay and that clay? Can I add my own lava chips? Can I really use glaze to “glue” the top and bottom of a cake stand together in the kiln? (Um, No.)

And then there are glazes…Glaze chemistry is a world unto itself, and I could nerd out for days discussing frits, opacifiers, oxides and fluxes. Glazy.org is God’s gift to glaze makers. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Derek Au. My workspace often looks more like a chem lab than a pottery studio.

This blog, at least for now, will probably be devoted to my latest adventures in potting…the motto being “You don’t know till you try…”