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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 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.

Pourover pals. 💙💚❤️ Cup is owner of the

Pourover pals. 💙💚❤️
Cup is owner of the Glazy Closeup from a couple posts back.
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Two photographs of a wheel thrown ceramic cup and simple pourover in green, blue and red shiny glaze, resting on an old paint splattered wooden workbench. The colours melt and merge into each other in a sort of oilspot pattern bleeding down the walls of the vessels. The base of the cup is tapered at about 45 degrees from horizontal, and left raw and unglazed. This was done to enhance the tactile quality of the vessel, as the raw clay belies the moldable stone aspect of clay. There is a thumb dimple imprinted into the wall of the handless mug.

Set of four 'shotties'. Perfect for an espresso, g

Set of four 'shotties'.
Perfect for an espresso, green tea, sake, schnapps... So many things really... 😂😊
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The first photograph shows a set of 4 handmade pinch pot shotties laying on their side along an old paint spotted wooden work bench.
The cups are made from chocolate brown clay with glazed with a mix of rich dark blues with some pale blue undertones, applied to the outside top third and the complete (not visible at this angle) insides of the cups. The lower 2/3 of the outside of the cups are left raw and unglazed; a fabric texture has been imprinted into the surface of the clay.
A small thumb divet has been impressed on the cups and each of them have a unique pattern of colours and drips within their glaze. Most have a pale blue line along the border of the glaze/drips.
The second photograph shows one cup standing upright, its outline clearly seen as wider at the top, tapered to the base in a straight line (aside from the thumb divet) creating a simple cut off conical shape.
There is one long trip of glaze running down into the thumb dimple, showing off the pale blue border line, which has created a triband appearance here. The dark blue glaze runs along the centre of the drip, and the
light blue glaze features on either side of the drips surface.

Glazy closeup. . Macro photograph of glaze on the

Glazy closeup.
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Macro photograph of glaze on the inside of a hand painted ceramic cup. The photograph has been cropped so the entire frame is taken up by the navy blue, pale blue and peachy pink colours like an abstract painting. The effect of the glaze layering is somewhat oilspot like, with the pale pink and blue being long ovoid shapes and the navy blue streaking between them.

Hand hugging cuppos with hooking tab and spoonses.

Hand hugging cuppos with hooking tab and spoonses. One even busted out the perfect drip.🤩🤩
The colours have been a little tricky to capture for these and I think they're actually not quite as vibrant/ blue, and slightly more green than this image shows (I toned down the green on account of the grass near the photograph site, but I think I overdid it, now seeing it on my phone 🤔 of course... Could be my phone🤔😂)
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Two photographs of hand built mugs in dark chocolate brown clay and blue and turquoise dripping glaze. The first photograph shows both cups and two matching spoons sitting on an old wood splattered workbench. The one on the left is laying on it's side to show the variegated colours of blue flowing down the inside of the cup. The one on the right is standing up, with the tab style handle facing the camera to show the perfectly placed drip off the edge of the tab. The shape is a basic v shape from the base, with a 'shoulder joint' angling back in. The tab handle is aligned with the angle in the form.
The second photograph shows a close up of the drip off the end of the tab, and out of focus in the background to the left a couple of the drips down the outside wall of the cup.

Turns out I do, in fact, have a thing for glaze 🤔🤷‍♀️😅 and blue glaze at that. 😅😅
"Um, I don't know, any colour really, but I probably don't really like blue" - Me, C. 2016 (when Anthony dyed my hair blue and I rolled my eyes so hard at myself I near got a concussion. 🙄🙄🙄🤭😍)
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Macro photograph of blue glaze, cropped so close the object is undefined. It's more like an abstract painting. The base/background is black clay, which has been made using a "pinch pot" technique, which has created regular indentations that the glaze has pooled and run along the peaks and valleys. Due to the nature of the glaze, where it is thicker, it has formed more opaque colours, so the background warps and changes from black, through navy blue, to almost cobalt blue, then through to turquoise, pale aqua and running sinuously down into the bottom left corner, even turning to soft peach and pale yellow.

So satisfying pulling these from the kiln last for

So satisfying pulling these from the kiln last fortnight. They turned out pretty much how I hoped they would (if not a little better tbh).
I'm finally feeling like I can have some low level expectations of how my pieces will look after their final firing, and the possibilities of what to make next are so thrilling. I'm making at about a 50% hit rate now, whereas prior to that, what I thought in my head would only come out in 3D about a tenth of the time. I'm trying to be more discerning about what I let through the kiln, but also know that some "failures" are like sketches of future works. Finding a balance is my plan for the year ahead. And making more sets of things, as I find the challenge of repetition to be satisfying at this point in time. Learning efficiencies of making the same thing has taught me a lot more about the different ways different clays behave, and how important it is for me that I enjoy the clays temperament.

I have a list several lifetimes long of what I want to make, but im trying to reign it in. I've got five or six or seven or eight weeks to decide... I'm anticipating it will feel like the longest wait to get back to clay ever.. since I actually feel like I can do it without being in tears from pain at night.
Yay. Simple things?
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Photograph series of four dark chocolate coloured clay, blue dripping glaze cups. They are set upon a wooden paint splattered workbench. The shape is straight walled at top, with a tapered base, somewhat like a geometric tulip. There is a depression for a thumb to sit snugly in. The glaze covers the inside of the cup, and is a rich blue, with tones of aqua, turquoise and navy blue mixed dribbling down the walls. The creation of the cups, by pinch pot technique, has left subtle, almost rhythmic impressions upon which the glaze breaks and flows. From straight on, the inside of the cups almost look like the iris of a blue eye, with fibrils of colour wiggly tapering down to the centre (though the centre is generally brighter, not darker). The series of photographs have the cups in varying orientations to expose the rich colours inside, and the shape of the cup from outside.

If this signature doesn't scream 2020 I don't know

If this signature doesn't scream 2020 I don't know what does... #scribbles #justgooveritbutdarker #typicaljanah
#doover #canwerubitoutandstartagain #igotrecognitionthisyearthoughsoidokindalikeitabittoo
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Photograph of the base of a handmade ceramic piece, showing the twice scribbled/overlapping signature "Janah James" with hearts as dispossessed dots of the j's. It is probably evident by the markings that the signature had to be redone, but did not trace the steps of the original, so has created a sort of shadowing effect. Also visible is the artists stamp on the sidewall of the piece, which from the lighting suggests a geometric faceted texture over the whole object. A circular stamp is on the base of the object, above the signature, in which can be barely made out "SA 2020“. The clay is a cool white, with tiny black and white speckles. At the top of the image an out of focus drip of turquoise glaze can be seen.

Talk about kiln tripping in the nick of time!! (th

Talk about kiln tripping in the nick of time!! (there were 3 others in the kiln not as lucky, whose drips made it to the kiln shelf plus some 🤔🤭)
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High key photograph of a dark chocolate brown clay and blue glaze handmade ceramic bowl, sitting on a wooden bench, with soft grey free succulents out of focus in the background. The bowls imperfect surfaces belie the pinch pot creation of this shallow one cup bowl. The blue glaze is transparent around the rim of the bowl such that it almost looks black, but as it flows down the outer top third of the bowl, it pools and gathers into a richer opaque aqua and light turquoise, and there are several dribbles of glaze that have run down the outside of the bowl, stopping just before they reach the base of the bowl.

Selfie silhouette in a triangle in a drip... 😊

Selfie silhouette in a triangle in a drip... 😊 Happy.
My life is a million times different this week from last. I'm pinching myself the surgery went so freaking well. I'm still giving it time, because I'm sure more healing must be undertaken, but the return of intersegmental lumbar range of motion without tearing pain is... Well... As indescribable as the pain apparently was. I knew it was mechanical pain, I knew it was! Mechanical, but with an organ pain overlay, something that gets so little air time. I'm still waiting to find out when exactly what the surgeon found and did, and I'll get the "results" of my surgery in a couple of months... But imo, I'm already living the results. I'm fairly certain they'll tell me that my organs were stuck to my pelvis/RSIJ in some way. I'm sure it will be downplayed as insignificant... But when someone is in touch with their body, even the small stuff is significant.
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Close up photograph of two variegated blue drops of glaze on a dark chocolate clay body. There is a silhouette of the upper half of the photographer, outlined in the triangular highlight at the bottom of the drip. There are peachy orange accents throughout the drip, and a dripping then swirling and pooling of navy, turquoise and aqua blues. It is cropped close so the object is in discernable, and it is photographed against a green background that is out of focus due to the relatively shallow depth of field of the photograph.

Then there's these baby blues 😍👌 . Two photo

Then there's these baby blues 😍👌
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Two photographs of chocolate brown and blue hand made mini tumblers resting on an old wooden paint splattered workbench. In the first, the angle is such that the inside walls of the mugs can be seen, showing off the waterfall like rivulet pattern of blue and turquoise glazes. In the second, they are photographed side on to show the drips that have run down the outside of the raw clay, and also to show off the faceting detail, and the artists stamp (which has been overrun by a glaze drip on the right hand cuppo)

Close uppppp! Love the way this glaze behaves on t

Close uppppp! Love the way this glaze behaves on this clay. #therainfallsmainlyontheplainsinspain
Another lot of pretties from the week of distraction.
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Close cropped photograph of a stack of chocolate brown and blue glazed ceramic cups. They are laying on an old paint splattered wooden workbench. Slightly out of focus on the left most cups can be seen the artists imprint along with two heart stamps. The glaze looks like a dripping blue nebula, a black blue background, with pale tiny 'star speckles' and variegated hues of blues and greens becoming more opaque throughout the gathering of glaze material within each drip (which go horizontal across the frame as the cups are stacked into each other, but laying down.

Aha!!! I figured it out!! I added tooooo oooo many

Aha!!! I figured it out!! I added tooooo oooo many pictures to the product gallery. 😂
OK. So.. Here are some beauties from my last firings.. They fit so nicely in the hand. About to put them through the dishwasher before cataloging them on the 'ready for new home' shelf. 😊
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Photograph of six white and blue tumblers on an old paint splattered wooden workbench. The cups are hand made in light, but blue grey spectrum white clay, with tiny white and black salt n pepper speckles. The sides have been carved to create a geometric effect on the external surface. There is a larger deeper concave carved facet perfect for a thumb, and several surfaces have been hammered to leave an almost metallic finish.

It's been a while since I got back to the grid. I'

It's been a while since I got back to the grid. I've been doing my bestest job to rest and recover... But I'm feeling so dang awesome today I had to celebrate with a quick photo sesh of some of my latest favrst babes.

This shot shows quite a few aspects of the hand made uniqueness of these pieces. Each panel has been cut away from the base pinch pot cup, and then burnished, and on some panels even pummeled with a rounded tool to create a hammered texture. There is a dimple carved in, perfect for a thumb, and several cut and peeled surfaces that show off the rocky yet tearable nature of this clay in its drying phase. Then that beautiful big blue and turquoise drip. Hnnng. Getting happier and happier with sets emerging from the kiln. 😊

Like a waterfall into the abyss. Nebula glaze on f

Like a waterfall into the abyss. Nebula glaze on faceted chocolate clay. #oneofakind #handpainted

I do love me a glaze macro 😍 . Macro photograph

I do love me a glaze macro 😍
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Macro photograph of melding glaze on the inside of a cup. Dripping exploding rivulets of glaze in wobbly bands of colours ranging from black to blue, turquoise, peach, purple, maroon.

Amaco weeping plum celedon over Keans cone 6 Black

Amaco weeping plum celedon over Keans cone 6 Black is definitely a combo I have warmed too. (scuse the dust 🙄) from set up to shoot can sometimes be days due to having to pace my activities.. And sometimes I don't see the dust till I'm back editing the shots. It's either use them, or possibly take another month to reshoot and edit, export and post... Today #doneisbetterthanperfect
Also, I've tagged the wrong mug, because this one actually has boobies on it and into won't lemme share them obvs... So... If you click on this pic, you'll be able to find this actual muggo, called "Subtle Conversations” – bulging funnel form mug in chocolate clay
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Cropped, top down photograph of the inside of a handmade, wheel thrown pink on chocolate coloured mug on a white background. The swirling imprint of the potters finger in the base of the cup is highlighted by the pooling of the pink glaze in the troughs of the markings left by the process of creation.

Another little bell of molded stone. 💖 . Fotogr

Another little bell of molded stone. 💖
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Fotograph of a stone/mushroom coloured handmade Bell with fabric and pinched texture. There are two red wooden beads strung on the gold faux suede cord, either side of a stone coloured flat bead above the bell, and a dark chocolate coloured bead in the mouth of the bell that has been imprinted with small alternating up and down hearts around its circumference.

Hi. I'm the maker of stuff here if ya new. 👋 L

Hi. I'm the maker of stuff here if ya new. 👋

Lipstick check had me feelin quite etherial.

So. New topic. Pelvic pain!

I have chronic pelvic pain that I talk about quite a lot in my stories. I try not to bring it into the grid, but sometimes I just need to, ya know?

It's not always easy or comfortable to talk about, but I do it because so many people who menstruate have been completely invalidated and dismissed by doctors, end up believing it's in their heads, then make their life small, so as to not have to deal with the trauma of interacting with others whilst feeling so incredibly confused within oneself. For me, it led to just being constantly angry when I'd socialise, because I was in pain, but thought it was anxiety, and thus beating myself up for saying yes to things I thought I wanted to do.. But apparently, when I got there.. I didn't. (truth was, I was exhausted and in constant pain, but had no idea, because my symptoms had been invalidated and dismissed because Dr's could find no cause for them).

On average it takes 7-11 YEARS of visiting doctors regularly, in pain, to get a diagnosis for endometriosis (only via surgery). A disorder more common in menstruators than diabetes, but woefully under acknowledged, misunderstood and lacking in research for both diagnosis and treatment.

In my opinion, this delay in diagnosis is directly related to the fact its a taboo topic... to talk about excruciating menstruation that leaves you shaking in a cold sweat and vomiting in pain on the bathroom floor because you can't even get out of the fetal position because your abdominal and pelvic floor muscles are so spasmed... Or this happening at any point
in the cycle actually.

Continued in comments*

Photograph of a white adult with shoulder length pink hair green eyes, red lips and purple glasses, looking directly at camera, back-lit with a hair halo.

Black faceted bellarinie 🖤🖤 . Photograph of

Black faceted bellarinie 🖤🖤
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Photograph of a dark chocolate coloured handmade Bell on a white background. It is strung with a faux suede gold cord, and has handmade dark chocolate clay beads, and a red wooden bead above the bell form, and one at the bottom of the cord. The clay has been pinched into a narrow bell, then the sides have been cut away to leave a geometric facetd texture. The mouth/rim of the bell has been left raw to give a contrasting soft texture to the shiny flat faceted surfaces.

Fleeting sunny moments with my favourite life wal

Fleeting sunny moments with my favourite life walker.
If you're new around here... Hi! This is me being kissed by my most best person. 🥰
I have been using art as a means of personal catharsis and growth for as long as I can remember, and pottery was a natural extension to my quest for best/most cathartic/deepest introspspective self expression. For me, it's the most beautiful combination of physics, chemistry, maths, rhythm, flow, tactile asmr, meditation, joy, patience, non attachment, and collaboration with the elements that I've discovered thus far. I'm constantly torn between getting stuck into the precision of wheel throwing (or potential for anyways 🤔😅), and the organic very tangible human-ness of pinching a piece into shape. I hope my infatuation with clay (and this human, by extension) brings you some warm tingles too.
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High key photograph of two white people embraced in love. The person on the left has pink wavy hair and is smiling widely, the person on the right has a beard and short cropped light brown hair and is kissing person on the left on their temple. There are out of focus tree branches in the background.

Love that 80s wetlook. 😍 . Black and white phot

Love that 80s wetlook. 😍
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Black and white photograph of 7 freshly hand thrown cups with thumb dimple.

This wheel thrown hand painted ditty now also on m

This wheel thrown hand painted ditty now also on my website.
Slowly slowly adding... 😂
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Photograph of a handmade mug in chocolate black clay, with white blue and yellow underglaze detailing. The blue is applied in a frenetic repeating but also morphing pattern of parralell dripping lines and watercolour esque smudges of colour. The mug sits on an old wooden paint splattered bench.

Photos absolutely do not do this little cuppo just

Photos absolutely do not do this little cuppo justice. "Covered in Hearts Sipper Mug“
Covered in hearts by total fluke (though I'm sure intentional by the muggo.. As they often have more say in their creation than I) this dear cuppo is now up on my site... ☺️ DM me if you want to do a contact less pickup from my studio and I'll send you a free shipping coupon to use... Still in hubby's work que to get the checkbox features up and running as my needs expand. 😅
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1- detail photograph of the rainbow of colours in the glaze on this mug. Predominantly turquoise, with navy, purple and mustardy yellow swirling and oozing along the surface of the glaze a small purplish heart can be seen formed by the swirling of the colours and hand application of the glaze.
2- product shot of an angular mug on a brilliant white background. The mug has been made in a buttercream coloured clay, and glazed first with black, and then layered with turquoise, red, purple, navy blue and yellow glazes that break and pool into each other. There are three large turquoise hearts formed by the glaze smattering across the surface of the mug shown, and one smaller purple heart to the side and a very feint mauve heart above it.

Little chokky brown bud vase. . Photograph of a da

Little chokky brown bud vase.
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Photograph of a dark chocolate brown clay vase. It is a slightly leaning distorted rectangular box shape with a small carved oval centre. The surface is left raw and the drag marks of the tools used to carve it, and squished corners that belie the once squishy softness of the clay when it's still essentially mud. There is a single yellow ball flower centre.

Different focus this time. . Photograph of three

Different focus this time.
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Photograph of three pink cups of different designs. All are part obscured. The cup in main focus is back right. It is wheel thrown in farcj chocolate brown clay, painted white, had a seated, long haired, curvaceous figure carved into the surface, which remains white and chocolate black, with the surrounding cup surface painted in translucent pink glaze. The cup half shown in the back left is all pale pink with dark lines carved in of a figure looking directly out at the viewer, with no facial features except a circle over their mouth, long curling hair, and two intersecting dark lines carved over the region the eyes would be, becoming one with hair strands. The throat, shoulder and elbow also have carved circles and faintly joining lines. The cup at the front is completely out of focus, but is also from the same chocolate brown clay, with pink glaze directly over top, making it a sort of chocolate pink. The base of this mug is left raw so that the dark chocolate clay is part of a feature of the mug itself.

Scrolling through old folders and found these pics

Scrolling through old folders and found these pics. Luke went to a LAN one weekend the first year I rediscovered clay, and I stayed up for 36hours wearing my fingerprints off on BRT making this fine figure 😍
Was such a crazy decision, but I just couldn't stop. 😬🤪☺️
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Photograph of a sculpture of a figure with breasts and a mons, in sandy peachy tan coloured clay. The figure has an arched back, and their left hand is resting on their hip, the right sitting lightly on their upper chest. The figure begins at mid thigh, and ends at the upper neck, below the chin.

And another close up of glaze. Spontaneous hearts

And another close up of glaze. Spontaneous hearts exploded on the surface of this muggo. Planning to get it up on the website over the weekend. 💜💚💙🖤❤️💛
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Macro photograph of glaze details. This ceramic piece (not discernable from the image as the glaze colours fill the whole frame) has a base coat of black, upon which a layering collision of colours based in blues and turquoises, but accented with purples and yellows and browns. There are four heart shapes within these glaze colours, mostly they are formed by the outlining purple and yellow surrounding a turquoise heart shape.

Little babes at @the_gooby_goose today. . Photogra

Little babes at @the_gooby_goose today.
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Photograph of handmade ceramic cups on a wooden shelf. There is a postcard in the background that reads "Functional Handcrafted Adelaide Hills ceramicware" and has a black and white photograph of a fair skinned adult throwing pottery at a pottery wheel. There are two white speckled faceted shotty cups with amorphous black, blue, purple and turquoise glaze inside, and two round wheel thrown cups in a pale pinky blue purple.

Also on my website now. DM me for a local pickup c

Also on my website now. DM me for a local pickup coupon code if you wanna drive yourself out here and save on shipping.
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Two photographs of a handmade faceted bowl sitting on an old paint splattered wooden workbench. The inside of the bowl is glazed in a melting pot of purples and turquoise.

Set of four egg cups. Cute lil things. On my websi

Set of four egg cups. Cute lil things. On my website now. DM me for a coupon code if you want to do contact less pickup from my studio. (also, just as I complain something is broken, my insanely talented hubby fixes it after I've spent days scouring the Internet trying to find help. 😅🤦‍♀️)
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Photograph of four little geometric faceted chocolate brown clay egg cups sitting on an old paint splattered wooden workbench. Three are stacked, a fourth is laying on its side to have its glazed surface directed at the camera. They have been glazed in a nebula inspired glaze with blue, green, turquoise, purple, red, peach, pale blue and mustard brown.

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