lunar honey

of the earth.

[lunarhoney]

I’m working on a series of amanita mushroom mugs 🍄 I’m excited! ~~~ • • • #lunarhoney#lovepottery#mushroommug#mushroom#amanita#amanitamuscaria #ilovepottery

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I’ll be set up down at Saturday market until 5pm today! Come say hi if you’re in Eugene! :) (at Eugene Saturday Market)

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I love making jars! They’re so satisfying.

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Here’s another favorite from the last batch 🌙 yonic moon cycle mug. I’m currently working on a shop update that will include this piece 💗 • • • #lunarhoney #mooncycle #moonmug #yonic #yoni #ceramics #ceramique #handmadeceramic #handmade #pottery #clay #wheelthrown #stoneware #studiopottery #handcrafted #makersmovement #handmade #makers #instapottery #ceramicart #potterylove #pottersofinstagram #potsinaction #handmadeshop #ilovehandmade #ceramika #mugsofinstagram @moonmug

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I’m really enjoying learning more about wood firing my pottery. These five pieces are my first tests of the clay I dug up recently. They fired into a beautiful earthy red. Each one has varying amounts of grog mixed into the clay body. I used crushed terra cotta as grog with a range of 0-40%. A couple ended up with hair line cracks and all but one of them broke under the force of my hands. Through this experiment I learned that this clay seems to be strongest with 10% grog added. I’m excited to continue exploring this process. 🐌✨ • • • #lunarhoney #ceramics #ceramique #handmadeceramic #handmade #pottery #clay #handbuilt #handbuiltpottery #earthenware #localclay #woodfired #woodfiredpottery #wildclay #earthskills #primitiveskills #studiopottery #handcrafted #makersmovement #handmade #makers #instapottery #ceramicart #potterylove #pottersofinstagram #potsinaction #handmadeshop #ilovehandmade #ceramika

[lunarhoney]

Progress shot.~🍂I've decided to shift my mentality slightly when it comes to creating. For now I'm going to create because it feels good and I like building my skills. Staying present and enjoying myself is most important. Creating for those simple reasons keep my mind at ease. 🌷🐌

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My creations have turned to stone! I love this medium so much. 🖤 www.lunarhoney.com • • • #lunarhoney #ceramika #ceramicart #ceramics #stoneware #ceramicjewelry #thirdeye

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yesterday my dad told me something that I think maybe more people need to hear.

You’re allowed to just do things for fun.

He told me that in this modern society, especially the United States, we seem to have this attitude that we shouldn’t do something unless we’re aiming to be the best at it. If we can’t sing like Beyonce or Frank Sinatra or something there’s no point to singing. If we can’t make the next big breakthrough there’s no point in looking into mechanics and engineering.

But, he tells me, it took him a long time to figure out that life doesn’t have to be a race. If you want to take up the piano when you’re a teenager or later you’re not going to master it. You’re not going to be able to play to huge concert halls, but that also shouldn’t stop you. You can study a language out of curiosity and then drop the ball if you want. You can just get okay at something or even be terrible at it. You can drop it for days or years and then pick it up again and it doesn’t have to be a shameful thing.

I’m really glad he told me that because today I opened my sketchpad for the first time in months and just started drawing. And it looks terrible. But I don’t care. I don’t have the talent or patience or spacial awareness to get anywhere near good at drawing, but it’s fun. It helps me focus my mind and nobody has to see it.

And because of what he told me, I’m thinking maybe someday soon I will take up the bass guitar. And I won’t worry about how well I do, or how fast I learn, or that I haven’t played an instrument since sixth grade, or that I don’t have that much time to practice. I’m just gonna enjoy the experience. Maybe I’ll try swing dancing again and take a class because I’m not the best dancer but damn if it isn’t fun.

Yeah, you don’t have to be good at things. It’s not a requirement. Maybe that seems obvious but it had never occurred to me before. You’re allowed to just enjoy what you’re doing. For me, that feels like a life changing revelation. I don’t have to be good at something to like it. I don’t have to put 100% effort into everything I do. It’s kind of amazing.

[lunarhoney]

••Leather roll pouch I created with wild harvested couch leather from the streets of Hollywood. 🥑Features a hand carved avocado pit button and pine nut seeds from a man named Baba Dan.••I'm always carrying a bundle of drawing utensils with me so this has been super useful. 🐿

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Yoni Goddess flags 💖

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Magic

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Taking a moment to ground ✨

[letheane-deactivated20200121]

You look at trees and called them ‘trees,’ and probably you do not think twice about the word. You call a star a ‘star,’ and think nothing more of it. But you must remember that these words, ‘tree,’ ‘star,’ were (in their original forms) names given to these objects by people with very different views from yours. To you, a tree is simply a vegetable organism, and a star simply a ball of inanimate matter moving along a mathematical course. But the first men to talk of ‘trees’ and ‘stars’ saw things very differently. To them, the world was alive with mythological beings. They saw the stars as living silver, bursting into flame in answer to the eternal music. They saw the sky as a jeweled tent, and the earth as the womb whence all living things have come. To them, the whole of creation was ‘myth-woven and elf patterned’.

J.R.R. Tolkien, from ‘Mythopoeia’ (via cosmofilius)

[chasingrainbowsforever]

Poppy Seed Pod

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Nigella damascena seedpod

[thetypologist]

Typology of polyhedra.  From “Vielecke und Vielflache” by Dr. Max Bruckner, published 1900.