DogwoodPottery

05/17/2017

I am starting to work on some toad houses and cookie jars. More will follow...

05/17/2017

Birdbath, brightens the garden and hopefully makes the birds happy. It is on a stand but can be hung with chains added using the holes. I haven't figured out a way to mail it. Postage will be expensive but I can deliver it locally.

03/30/2017

New colors for ikebana vases, Click on the picture to see them all.

An Ikebana vase is a wonderful way to display blooms from your garden. Ikebana is a Japanese floral art form emphasising blooms, stems and leaves. You can follow the rules or add flowers to please yourself. It will hold tall or short stems by pushing the stems into the floral frog or pin holder that...

10/21/2016

Lots of glazing to do. Getting ready for the Appalachian Christmas Craft Show: December 10, 2016 at Lake Junaluska.

08/30/2016

New to my Etsy store. Dogwoodpottery Etsy store link https://www.etsy.com/shop/DogwoodPottery

07/29/2016

Another new style for a berry bowl

I threw this bowl on the potters wheel then carved the holes to make it a berry bowl or small colander. There is an matching saucer to catch the drips after you rinse your fruit. It has white flowers formed from a wax resist of the glaze. The flowers are the stoneware clay without glaze and this giv...

07/29/2016

Dramatic berry bowl

I threw this bowl on the potters wheel then carved the holes to make it a berry bowl or small colander. There is an matching saucer to catch the drips after you rinse your fruit. The bowl has a satin finish beige glaze with a cascade of green with brown accents. The brown has an almost metallic shin...

06/18/2016

Making berry bowls. Start with a thrown bowl. Use food coloring to make guidelines. Drill holes with a drill and then a lot of cleanup is necessary.

03/23/2016

The only flowers blooming right now are daffodils and forsythia. The daffodils have hollow stems that won't stay upright on the pins of my Ikebana vase. I put a wooden skewer (see one in the picture) into the hollow stem, broke it off to length and the flower stays upright on the pins. Hooray!!

This Ikebana vase and one other are on sale at my Etsy shop at:

www.etsy.com/listing/233529231/ikebana-style-vase-in-green-brown-shino

02/02/2016

Picture 1 - The finish yarn bowl that I just put on Etsy. Here is how it was made. Pic 2 - After the pot had been fired one time, I loosely drew the flowers in pencil then used underglaze to add the yellow center with black dots around it. Pic 3 - I have added the pink dots around the black ones using the squeeze bottle in the picture. Pic 4 - I added the turquoise dot in the center from the bucket of glaze. Pic 5 - When everything dried, I painted the flowers with blue colored wax. After the wax dried I dipped the pot in the turquoise glaze bucket. The wax resists the glaze which covers everywhere else. The wax and the pencil marks look ugly now but they will burn out in the firing leaving a white flower (the color of the clay) with a decorative center. The bowl is ready for the second firing.

01/17/2016

New yarn bowl listing on my shop on Etsy.com. I am starting with yarn bowls as I build up my inventory after Christmas. I was completely out of yarn bowls! I have several available now.

I threw this white stoneware bowl on the wheel and altered it to be a yarn bowl. The bowl was fired twice in my kiln. Brown and beige glaze

12/15/2015

Finally got the last up my items onto Etsy. No more production until after Christmas. Yay!! Hope sales continue even though I completely sold out of yarn bowls. This mugs turned out nice.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/260751514/set-of-two-soup-mugssoup-bowls-in-green?ref=shop_home_active_3

These are sets of two soup mugs/soup bowls. One set is a lovely glossy green color accented by brown, light green and even some blue in areas