picky about pitchers ... and piggies....

BTW, I just ran the wife down to the bus so that she can spend the day in NY city...and GOOD GOLLY the radio said it was 24 degrees....we had a few things yesterday that looked like "snowflakes"...all quite normal, of course, for us, but SIGH....

I am picky about pottery.  I like useful items, sure, but my list of what I like to make is short:  other than sculpture, I make bowls, cups, teapots and pitchers, sometimes vases and bottles.  That is a short list, as any potter who has gone to a craft fair knows:  people ask for all kinds of crazy sh!t--the French butter keepers, the French onion soup bowls, the French mustard pots....whatever.  I have made a few such items in my life, like toothbrush holders and butter keepers (if you asked me to make things like that for you I would have to like you A LOT, otherwise it would be a polite no), but I really like to make what I like to make, which is usually teapots, as you know, and people are always asking for my piggy banks, but generally, I do NOT like items that have a very specific use, like berry bowls.  I prefer BOWLS.  That is how I operate in my kitchen, and I do not like to make things I do not use (we use a coffee cup for the toothbrushes).  Anyway, I am picky, and I do not know why.

I do not show them here much, but I LOOOOOOVE pitchers, which have a lot of uses, as creamers, ice tea, or for flowers (sure, toothbrush holders too, right?).  Here are a few, large and small, just out of the kiln....you can see I am enjoying the underglaze scheme with the swirls!


 You probably need a piggy bank, right?  For sale now at my etsy shoppe!