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~from my heart to yours~

Hand made pieces created with love, perfect for daily self care rituals.

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Gratefully on Kaurna land
She/her they/them
Inspired by mother nature. Obsessed with mud & heat. Probs part reptile.🦎🐊🐍🦕🐉 Endometriosister 💛

😭😭😭 These ALMOST turned out perfect... Bu

😭😭😭 These ALMOST turned out perfect... But I didn't get their bums as flat as I thought I had. 😭😭😭 I've tried sanding them down, but without access to a belt sander, I still end up with a slightly uneven bum 😭😭😭
So... I'm selling these for just $15 each... a.k.a 70% off!!!
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Shipping is also $15.. Or we can organise contact less pickup from Happy Valley.
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If you're curious to see how wobbly, DM me and ill send you a vid of me poking it. 😉😅
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Photograph of a chocolate brown clay tumbler with extremely drippy turquoise and blue glaze. The cup is held by a white adult hand, with a bright yellow out of focus background.

No idea how I got that ghosting artefact around th

No idea how I got that ghosting artefact around the buds in the background back in July... But I love it.
#blossoms
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Photograph of a branch of white and pale pink almond blossoms. The shadows the petals cast upon themselves show the frilly delicate petals of the blooms.

I've just uploaded 19 combination stud sets to my

I've just uploaded 19 combination stud sets to my website. They are $20 per set of three, with a flat $5 postage Australia wide, or we can organise contact less pickup from Happy Valley. They're still in review, but should be click able through this post by end of day, otherwise a link to my website is in my bio, you can navigate from there and search "Teeny Studs"
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If you would like to have them separated out onto individual cards so you can give them to three separate people as gifts, I can do that for you, just leave a comment in your order, or email me and let me know and I'll sort it out for you. 🙃
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Series of photographs of 3 sets of tiny round ceramic studs on white "Janah James" branded card.
They are photographed against a green background, being held by a white adult hand. The first image has light pink, medium pink and pale blue studs, the second has a dark pink pair, a kimchi red grey green pair and a black pair. The third image has an aqua, a medium pink and a cobalt blue pair, the fourth image has a set imprinted with a pink heart and three pink dots on white porcelain, a textured medium pink set, and a medium pink on grey speckled clay pair. The fifth image has a pale pink on grey speckled clay, a vibrant violet on grey speckled clay and a dark green on grey speckled clay pair. The fifth image shows the back of the card with six silver stud findings and butterfly clasps.

Spying some decorations in the pittosporum... I've

Spying some decorations in the pittosporum... I've made about 70?? I'll be dropping some off at Back in Balance, 225 Main Rd, Blackwood later this morning. Small are $5, medium for $7 and large ones are $9.
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Photograph of three ceramic heart decorations hanging amongst the curly lush green leaves and black branches of a pittosporum tree. The top heart is a large size with pale pink glaze, the middle left is a medium size with aqua blue and the bottom right is a medium size heart with dark metallic green glaze. All have been imprinted with a crochet design, creating texture for the glazes to pool within, thus creating varied intensity and transparency of the colours of their glazes.

Took a pic of these littles a few weeks back but n

Took a pic of these littles a few weeks back but never got around to posting them. Putting the next batch together, but I've run out of faux suede cord and wood beads so it's convinient that spotlight will be open again tomorrow and I won't have to bother the postie.
. Photograph of three handmade ceramic bells on an old paint splattered wooden workbench. The bells are a mixture of pink, black, green and raw.

A pretty thing to come out of a shitty year. . . P

A pretty thing to come out of a shitty year.
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Photograph of 5 mostly pink handmade teacups. The rims have been glazed in drippy inky blue and handles black with blue and maroon ozes. Some cups are stacked, some barely cropped into the shot, but the main one centre right is upside down showing the white raw clay base, and signature of the artist "Janah James" inscribed above the year "2020“. They are photographed from above, creating a background of out of focus yellow and white splattered old wooden workbench.

More little 🥰's ~from my heart to yours~ . Seri

More little 🥰's
~from my heart to yours~
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Series of photographs of a pink and black teacup. The photos show the details of the cup. It has a half sphere shape bowl and petal shaped tab type single finger handle. A white adult hand holds the cup. The shiny glaze is mostly transluscent pale pink, allowing the black and white speckled clay body to show through. There is a band of blue black around the rim of the cup, which runs and pools almost like inky watercolour, in a beautiful cool blue black glaze. The handle is solid black with swirls of red blue and pale green intermingled and pooling on the surface of the handle. There are three staggered small heart indents on the surface of the cup near the handle. The foot and base of the cup has been left raw and unglazed for textural enjoyment (it feels like tumbled river stone 😊) but has the rhythmic undulations belieing its creation as a hand pinched ceramic teacup.

I also got 'special requested' to make chrissy dec

Then there's this little prototype milk + cookie..

Then there's this little prototype milk + cookie... or gin + cucumber number. 😊👍
Will defs make siblings for this one. (side note, won't be using THOSE kiln props again!! I don't think I'm using them right 🤔🤷‍♀️ Remaking my own from bead wire next round. I definitely prefer the metal prong to the ceramic one)

And some classic black and white. 🖤🤍🖤 . P

And some classic black and white. 🖤🤍🖤
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Photograph of a long rectangular white bell with black details. It has a large chunky ceramic bead dongle, and is strung on black faux suede cord, with black beads in clusters along the cord.

So glad I switched clay. 😊 The black and white

So glad I switched clay. 😊 The black and white speckles have grown on me "something fierce" as my cousin Lee-Anne used to say back in the 90's. 😊😊
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Macro close cropped detail photograph of a band of inky dark blue black glaze trickling down the walls of a pale pink unidentifiable clay object. The glazes are both translucent, allowing the tiny black and white sand sized speckles shine through. The glaze is a shiny glaze, as indicated by the blown out highlight overcast sky reflection along the undulating surfaces of the clay at the bottom of the image.

Five little teacups, 120ml in volume. One is a lit

Five little teacups, 120ml in volume. One is a little warped 😅🖐️😍 so I'm selling it for $20 because other than having a slightly oval opening, it's still darn functional and gorgeous. The others are $35 each. 🖤💕
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I'm not putting these up on my website, just offering sale via DM here before I take them to display/sell courtesy of the wonderful Dr. Paije at Back In Balance, Blackwood.
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Photograph of a stack of 5 pink and black glazed ceramic cups. It is photographed on an old paint splattered wooden workbench.
The cool white clay with its salt and pepper speckles can be seen through the glaze, and the rhythmic imprints of the pinch pot process of creation is highlighted by the pooling of the translucent pale pink glaze and the dribbles of dark blue and black into the undulating surfaces of the clay. Each cup has a black one finger handle.

I... I should learn to pace my posts.. I mean, I'v

I... I should learn to pace my posts.. I mean, I've {almost} learnt it for the making aspect of my clay bits... But by the time I get to edited photographs I just want to share!!! 😅😊😉
I'm not putting these up on my website, just offering sale via DM here before I take them to display/sell courtesy of the wonderful Dr. Paije at Back In Balance, Blackwood later in the week.
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Photograph of a white adult hand holding a pink and black and green glazed ceramic cup. It is photographed against an out of focus green foilage background.
The cool white clay with its salt and pepper speckles can be seen through the glaze, and the rhythmic imprints of the pinch pot process of creation is highlighted by the pooling of the translucent pale pink glaze and the dribbles of smokey dark blue into the undulating surfaces of the clay. There are three small heart imprints alongside the handle of the cup, again accentuated by the pooling of the pink glaze. The cups upside down loop tab type handle is black with swirling blue and red over its surface.

Bottoms up. . Photograph of a handmade ceramic ves

Bottoms up.
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Photograph of a handmade ceramic vessel upended on an old paint splattered wooden workbench. The centre is left raw and unglazed showing the cool white clay and salt and pepper speckles. The signature "Janah James" is carved into the base with two small love hearts as accents on the "J's". Below the signature is carved "SA 2020“
The cup has then been glazed in a clear pale pink band then black band of equal thickness, then the pale pink outside of that before the edges fade out of focus.

Details of some new works. . Cropped close up phot

Details of some new works.
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Cropped close up photograph of pale pink with dark blue dripping rim glaze handmade ceramic teacups. The focus is on the undulations of the dark blue dribbles coalescing with the pale pink glaze below. Both glazes are translucent, allowing the tiny white and black speckles within the clay body to show through.

Here's a geranium while I wait for the kiln to coo

Here's a geranium while I wait for the kiln to cool down. #waitingimpatiently
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A macro photograph of two open, one opening and one bud bloom of fleuro Fuschia geranium flowers. They are photographed against a pale background. The most open flower central to the image shows the darker pink veins of the petals surrounded by an orange to Fuschia ombre.

When you review your delicious macro shots and spo

When you review your delicious macro shots and spot a teeny tiny fricken cat hair 🥴💩 actually... Now I zoom in, I think its actually a reflection of my cream coloured patio beam.. Cos I see a few more... And they are more consistent with undulating surfaces of shiny glaze reflecting the environment, than repeated, equally sized cat hairs... 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️ I really should invest more time into a shiny subjects light box. 😩 One day maybe. But I'll probably just make more clay bits instead... 🤷‍♀️
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Macro abstract photograph of glaze detail on an unidentifiable object. The glaze falls in pale blue swirls down the dark blue background, meandering like mountain spring tributaries amongst swirls of pale green and peach patches of less in focus glaze.

A delightful shape to hold, and some pink, green a

A delightful shape to hold, and some pink, green and chocolate cos the last load was so blue (/I didn't photograph the bells or the pink plate I made)
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(click cherry windswept mug to navigate to my shop page, then find this love under associated products-- can't put it in my insta shop directly because... Tits 🙄)
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Photograph of a dark chocolate coloured clay wheel thrown cup. It is funnel shaped, with a bulbous bottom third. The top of the cup to the 'hip' is glazed transparent pink, with a thin green line around the circumference. The bottom third is left unglazed, and though hardly pictured here due to the angles, has subtle inscribed line drawings of pairs of breasts facing each other in sets as if in casual conversation.

I've always been a collector. "Anything there's mo

I've always been a collector.
"Anything there's more than two of, Janah collects".. The standard mutterance after a holiday with me as a child.... And now I've found my absolute favourite way to make stuff... Anything there's even one of... 🙄 😅 😅
These little vases serve a way to welcome the changes on my local environment, largely of the walk to our local duck pond (convinient that it's a poke stop 🤔😅)
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Photograph of a dark chocolate clay bud vase on an old paint splattered wooden workbench. It is a rough rectangular cube that has been squished slightly and thus has a gentle curve. The surfaces are left raw unglazed, highlighting the original wet pliable almost buttercream like qualities of clay. It holds a straw coloured frond of fluffy grass seeds, a black to grey ombre feather, a sprig of pink peppercorn seeds and a slender pink gum leaf.

Welp. They're listed. ☺️💖 . Series of ten p

Welp.
They're listed. ☺️💖
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Series of ten photographs of a pair of handmade ceramic breakfast ware sets. They are made from cool white with white and black speckled clay which can be seen left raw and unglazed on the bottom ledges of the pieces. They are roughly circular, but are clearly handmade and organic with their undulating and lightly cracked surfaces and rims, and finger dimpled texture from being pinched into shape. Their glaze is a combination of light blue in large moon shaped splashes (one big moon per piece in varying waxing and waning shapes) over a dark blue base. The glazes both have a mixture of blue tones heading toward aqua, that dribble and run over the surface of the clay.

Still trying to decide 😅😅😅 I'm thinking $

Still trying to decide 😅😅😅
I'm thinking $65 for the perfect set (cup, bowl, plate and two spoons) and $25 for the 'imperfect set'.. Or rather, $90 for all 10 pieces. Plus free postage if you get the whole crew. Home this afternoon to list and post, or you can DM me now and I'll put them aside.
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Photograph of a white adult hand holding a small blue handmade ceramic bowl. The blue glazes range from dark navy blue, to teal, to soft baby blue, all melting and drifting into each other as they traverse the topography of the pinched out bowl. (hand markings can be identified in the clay as rhythmic indents and complementary bulges which carry less glaze and thus become more on the green end of the blue spectrum, and slightly transparent to show the light speckled clay underneath.

Glaze drip love. . Two close up photographs of mul

Glaze drip love.
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Two close up photographs of multitonal blue glaze. In the first photograph, the border between glaze and raw clay is created by a bulbous undulating thick line of glaze, with a half semicircle drip in bottom third, centre of frame. The clay is cool white with small white and black 'salt and pepper' flecks in the clay body, and a cloth texture imprinted on its surface. The second photograph is so close to the glaze it has become totally abstract; a pale blue base with thin tendrils of dark navy blue meandering organically through the base colour.

Gums. . Sunset silhouette photograph of gum tree t

Gums.
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Sunset silhouette photograph of gum tree tops and dense tree foliage along the bottom with a pale blue sky atop, and vibrant orange lines marking the bases of dark pastel purple clouds, fading to yellow glow on the horizon.

Testing. Colours and shape perfect for another us

Testing.
Colours and shape perfect for another use...
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Cropped photograph of an olive grean, turquoise and dark seablue glazed handmade wheel thrown bowl.

<< ~SOLD~ >> #supportlocalart There's been far too

<< ~SOLD~ >> #supportlocalart There's been far too much blue and not enough pink bits in my feed lately 🤔😂😉
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Photograph of a white adult hand holding a small handmade teacup. It is slightly fluted in shape, though rather wonky in a cute way and has a thumb dimple. The top rim of the cup has a dark green/blue almost black glaze, which has dribbled down into the transluscent pink glaze below. There is an extremely faint yellow line at the intersection of colours. The clay body can be seen through the pink glaze, with loosely vertical lines inscribed into the clay, in which the pink glaze pools, creating a slightly darker shade, which in turn shows off the design by the contrast in colour density. The pink glaze stops short of the bottom of the cup in sort of magical cartoonesque cloud shaped lashings of glaze, showing even more clearly the beauty of the cool white clay with tiny white and black speckles in.

Such pretty babies. . Photo series of two half sph

Such pretty babies.
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Photo series of two half sphere shaped bowls in dark chocolate brown clay and navy blue through turquoise glaze.

I seriously cannot even with this glaze. #doyousee

I seriously cannot even with this glaze. #doyouseethefuckingloveheartrightnow?!
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I'll be back in a few hours to write proper descriptions.
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Four photographs of up close detail shots of blue green turquoise and pale orange glazed bowls made from dark chocolate brown coloured clay.

Last week I sold this pretty ditty via DMs and Pay

Last week I sold this pretty ditty via DMs and PayPal. 🎉 So glad they'll be making coffee love with a beautiful soul really soon!!
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If you want some videos of items I've shared but haven't made it to my webshop yet, you can DM me and we'll do a lil video viewing to see if it's what you were thinking, then all I'll need is your email to send you a PayPal invoice.
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Photograph of handmade, wheel thrown, blue green and red glaze ceramic pourover being held by a mostly cropped off camera white adult hand.

That turquoise tho! 😍 These perfectly hand hug

That turquoise tho! 😍

These perfectly hand hugging tumblers have little textural surprises hidden on their facets. 😊
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Each mug has spent 2 hours in my hands, in 10-20 min increments over 6 weeks, and over 50 hours in a kiln to achieve their completion.
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Two photographs of turquoise and off white clay faceted cups. In the first photograph they are all standing upright, on an old paint splattered wooden workbench. Dribbles of glaze can be seen running down the sides of the mostly raw outside walls. The cups have been hand carved in facets to accentuate the idea that they are a precious stone to me, their creator.
The second photograph shows them on the same old paint splattered wooden workbench, this time 5 are laying down to highlight the faceting, and one remains standing to show an accentuated pattern of three closely cut and torn edges of clay. On one of the cups on its side shows a large cut concave surface that makes a perfect thumb rest.

One off black, brown and red coiled pourover and p

One off black, brown and red coiled pourover and pinchy black brown red and blue cup set for $35.
Insta/facebook/woo commerce keep trolling me. If you wish to has, head to my website via my bio and you'll find them listed in my online shop. 👍

These beautiful chonky bois back on my website aga

These beautiful chonky bois back on my website again. 😄 But 😩
So many feels.
Basically, go grab a takeaway from @the_gooby_goose currently set up inside Happy Valley Foodland. ☕☕💓💓

They're currently displaced due to a complex fire. 😓Don't know when they'll be back in their old digs and these chonkies will eventually be in the way when restorations happen. 😔

Dark Rainbow Drippy Suppers. 100ml cuppos for hand

Dark Rainbow Drippy Suppers. 100ml cuppos for hand snuggling drinkies. $45 each. On my website now. ☺️
These cups, and all my pottery, has helped heal me. My hope is that it becomes part of a daily ritual that helps heal you. From my heart to yours . 💕

Two photographs showing 4 blue green base colour glazed wheel thrown ceramic cups. Their base colours are olive green, muddy turquoise and navy blue, with pale blue, red, pink, yellow making their way drippily through the base glaze layers.

More oozing glaze 💙🧡 Macro abstract photogra

More oozing glaze
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Macro abstract photograph of running and pooling navy blue glaze over a peach, moss green and green grey glaze.

You know when you take a kid for a walk around the

You know when you take a kid for a walk around the neighborhood to wear them out and get fresh air.. and they end up collecting wild flowers (sometimes weed flowers) interesting rocks, pretty feathers or special sticks and seeds? (or you're still a kid at heart and do this yourself when you take yourself for a walk #guilty)
Well, that's what these little window sill finger vases are perfect for! Tiny sprigs of local treasures, remnants and reminders of the special gifts from nature that our modern world is often way too fast paced to appreciate.
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Photograph showing three ceramic vases on a wooden workbench. They are made from dark chocolate brown clay, and have been roughly hewn from their original clay block, leaving the garotte marks, finger imprints and torn clay edging along their walls. They have been filled with found objects from a South Australian spring duck pond : hay coloured fluffy straw/grass seed sprigs, pink peppercorn pods, rosey gum leafs and grey and white duck feathers. The vase in the middle is much larger than the side two, and has three water wells, whereas the two in the sides are both single well vessels.

Unintentionally looking good together. 👀 Two di

Unintentionally looking good together. 👀
Two dimpled cuppos and a titty pour over. 😍😊😍 Mmmm. Cups n cups n coffeeeeee.
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Photograph of two wheel thrown ceramic cups with black glaze and raw white clay around the base, sitting on an old wooden paint splattered workbench, either side of a pink coffee pourover that has a black inscribed band around its top rim. The sgraffito design is of pairs of line drawn breasts facing each other, as if in casual comfortable conversation.

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