{"id":1322,"date":"2017-03-15T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T21:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2017-03-17T12:39:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T19:39:26","slug":"finished-pottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/2017\/03\/15\/finished-pottery\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished Pottery!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I finished\u00a0all my pottery pieces in December\u00a0and they were done firing by early January… and yes it’s March and I haven’t\u00a0shared the results yet! Well, here I am!<\/p>\n

My First Three Pieces<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Glazed and ready for the final kiln<\/p>\n

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And finally complete!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next came this pair of honey pots<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And later a trio of bowls<\/strong><\/p>\n

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which I carefully trimmed when they were exactly “leather-hard”…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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But sadly, I lost this one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It was separated from the others while drying, and I forgot to go searching for it. My best bowl \ud83d\ude41<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Oh well, here’s another.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Which I trimmed a bit, just to clean it up. But it wasn’t made to be a bowl so nothing fancy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The last three pieces glazed! Just one ugly smear from a poor glazing decision. (I knew I felt like I was missing something. I was.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Ta da!\u00a0The final set!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bottoms of bowls are so much prettier than bottoms of cylinders… but I found them much much more difficult to make!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The tallest piece turned out *almost* as big as a coffee mug.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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That was a lot of work! I had no idea pottery was such a lengthy, complicated, time-sensitive process. I’m happy with the products, but more than that, I’m very glad to\u00a0have tried\u00a0my hand at learning something entirely\u00a0new. It was an experience full of excitement, concentration, frustration, celebration, disappointment, pleasant surprises… much more than I could have expected. Thanks to the staff at Claytek and my fellow classmates for an interesting learning journey. Onward to the next sabbatical-fueled adventure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I finished\u00a0all my pottery pieces in December\u00a0and they were done firing by early January… and yes it’s March and I haven’t\u00a0shared the results yet! Well, here I am! My First Three Pieces Glazed and ready for the final kiln Continue reading Finished Pottery!<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6175,6045,4144,379],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gratitude","tag-humility","tag-novice-expert","tag-pottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}