#raku

[moldspace]

biiiig raku snail

[mcromwell]

Echo was experimenting with making ocarinas and whistles, and this early prototype I turned into a little fat bird! It makes a delightful, single note toot-toot. Mostly I am still giggling at the tiny little bird feet.

Fat little toot-toot bird is available.

[unfamiliarsculptures]

The shop update is tonight! Here’s another raku fired critter for it, a little goat. The blue crackle glaze is so pretty, I wish I could use it all the time!

This piece and more will be available tonight, July 25th at 8pm Eastern time!

[calendae-creations]

I'm still going through an extremely rough time. My parents both died in September 2025, only a month after I lost my car to a bad crash. My parents left debts, no liquid assets, and a house in bad condition and with high HOA fees. I'm renting the house out for this year to a neighbor who was in a similarly bad state, but she caught covid and is 2 moths behind on rent.

I'm staying with a friend still for the rest of this month, and have a plan that might get me housed at least intermittently until I can sell my parents' house at the start of next year.

In the meantime however, I'm trying to scrape enough money together to afford: -$260 a month for my storage units -$500 for property tax on the car I inherited -brake repairs, tires, inspections, and registration for said car -$100 a month for groceries, as my food stamps seem to have not been renewed -$70 a month for my student loan payments

I have a massive amount of inventory in my shop – home decor, shawls, pottery, jewelry, Judaica, knitting patterns, pride wear, and more – as well as my fundraiser. If you’re on a tight budget, check out my discount section!

I'm also happy to take commissions! If there's a custom piece you'd be interested in having me make, I always welcome messages here. In addition, I have some order forms in my ko-fi for customizable commissions -- hats, kippot, leg warmers, and more!

Shipping outside the USA is not currently available through the store, but I can and do ship internationally – just message me about it and pay me directly through paypal or venmo or with a card through my ko-fi, once I can get you a shipping estimate. Online orders of 2 or more items come with a free watercolour bookmark!

Any purchases, commissions, donations, or even just reblogs, would be greatly appreciated!

[bokutshi-hitachi]

The ending we should’ve gotten

#FuckHitoshi 💜💜

[w33d000]

Nothing much but a show-off on facial expression improvements

On a Yangire

And a yandere

[claypigeonpottery]

Thoughts on raku? And horse hair raku? Have you done any personal pit fires?

I plan on doing the horse hair technique soon on a vase for my dog’s grave, and using her hair instead of horse hair.

I personally hate the texture of raku, and I prefer to stick with low-fire or mid-fire glazes, depending on what clay and studio I’m working with :D

I have done two raku workshops, both quite early on in my time as a potter. my first and second years, I think. so the things I made aren’t as uh…polished, as I’d like lol

I both really enjoyed raku firing and was a little terrified of it. I have a few burn scars from my time as a baker and a dumbass, so opening the glowing hot kiln and setting things on fire, even with gloves and metal tongs and such, made me a little nervous. (but I’m a baby lol)

despite it being somewhat terrifying, I’d like to do a raku firing again.

and I’d love to try a pit firing, but I think my landlady might not like me digging up the yard so…it’ll have to wait until I can join someone else’s pit firing

I agree with you about the texture of the horsehair raku! it’s more similar to bisqueware and I don’t like touching it. but it’s not food safe, so at least it isn’t handled all that often.

I don’t mind the feeling of the metallic or crackle raku though, it’s somewhat smoother.

here’s some of my raku work. (I finally found the pictures I took during the firing. I’d thought they were gone forever!)

here’s a couple metallic pieces

some crackle pieces (they’re a bit clunky lol)

and this one is similar to the horsehair, but made with feathers instead.

I think I used pheasant feathers. this bowl cracked, unfortunately. the horsehair or feather raku can be especially prone to thermal shock, since they aren’t immediately placed in a sealed container full of flammable stuff after being pulled from the hot kiln

and here’s the horsehair raku

these pictures are from just after adding the horsehair, you can see the burnt hair all around it

and these were taken today

I used horsehair from this beautiful moose of a horse, Jehna.

the sculpture was made to remember her time with us.

I think this kind of raku is a perfect art form for pet memorial pieces

I hope your firing goes well and your vase turns out beautifully! (and I’d love to see pictures of the finished piece, but no pressure)

[besidebloomingirises]