Ceramic gifts

As I said, I gave out my pottery left and right this Christmas as gifts to those I thought would appreciate. 

Here are some of them

This ring dish went to my niece. I am hoping she

liked it and didn't find it lame as teenagers can.  Or anyone really.

But she's an artist herself, so hoping she enjoys it. 

Another tiny dish that went to my friend Sarah.  I loved the colors on this one. 

It took me awhile to figure out how the colors work b/c the glazes look nothing like the final 

product, it was alway kind of a gamble what it would look like. This was towards the end of class, 

when I was finally figuring out what was what with the color!

The went to my friend Ashely, and is one of my favorites, it was a crazy messy pinch 

pot, that made a cool shape. I then covered with the big flower and leaves all around.

And this little covered jewelry box went to my sister Erin. 

I realize I don't have a photo of the inside now, but it's a nice red on the inside-a surprise. 

More I made, for myself and mostly for others. More to come!

Ceramic mobile

Working with clay a lot lately. 

Here is a work in progress, for a mobile.

This is low fire clay, so when fired it is lighter and a bit too fragile for outdoors, 

so this will hang in a window inside when finished.

The clay will be white when fired as well, I plan to keep the pieces white but use 

a black glaze wash to fill in all the details in the lines, and then clear glaze.

I am still not sure exactly what string I will use to connect it all together. 

Thinking on that still, but here is the basic layout.

UPDATE:

Here is the fired and glazed pieces, ready to be strung into a mobile.