Snot Nose Yarn Bowls

A few years ago I saw quirky pottery yarn bowls.  What a fun item to make.  It has taken me a few years to get around to making them but I finally have made my own style of these snot nose yarn bowls.


I turned a bowl big enough for a skein of yarn.  While it was still pliable I pushed the inside of the bowl out to make eyes, nose and lips.   With more clay, I added big eyelids and more accents. 

This was so much fun because I could make the face as quirky, cross eyed and lopsided as I want, but still keeping the look of a face, like a cartoon.

I wanted a soft coloured skin tone of greens and blues, which I achieved by using my compressor and paint gun to spray on the underglaze colours. I then embellished the eyes and lips with more ceramic underglaze colours.

Like all of my pottery, they were then fired in my kiln to bisque pottery. The final step was dipping them in clear glaze to put the sheen on it, then I fired (baked) them in a hot kiln of about 2900 degrees.



These will make great gifts for mother's day or for yourself.

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/685499234/yarn-bowl-pottery-snot-nose-yarn-bowl?ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1

I sell them on Etsy and Facebook or you can email me directly for $75.00plus shipping.  Etsy prices are higher as they have their fees and shipping prices included in the price, something Etsy wanted us to do.  https://www.facebook.com/The-Butlers-Pottery-Photography-236876216352661/?ref=settings

Mugs Mugs & More Mugs

If you are a coffee or tea drinker there is nothing better than having your own special mug. I have a cupboard full of store-bought mugs with logos on them that have been given to us.  In 2003 I started making pottery and mugs quickly became my staple seller and maker. I must admit the beginning ones have probably ended up in the trash can.  But some of them, the ones that the bottom cracked but still held water and were still usable landed in our cupboard at our cottage and our house. A few mugs that were good for selling still ended up in my cupboard. We need good mugs too.

Now that we have my handmade pottery mugs in the cupboard they are my and my husbands go-to cup for our coffee, tea and even hot chocolate.

When I turn my cups on my pottery wheel I push out the bottom of the cup and flair out the top.  This makes a comfortable shape, but it also serves as a function for the mugs.  It keeps my coffee hotter than a straight store-bought cup. Stoneware clay that I make them from also holds the temperature longer.

Glazing, the colour, is often an experiment. How does the glaze flow when it is fired in the kiln? Would it be best on the bottom shelf, which is cooler than the top, on on the top shelf? Does this change the colour or how it flows? Brushing on the glaze or dipping it can also change the colour of it. Once I settled on the glazes that I liked and worked well I began to combine two or three colours on my mugs to see how they flowed together.

Now I have a few designs that have become my regular go-to colours.  After a few years of selling these mugs, I am now itching to experiment with other colour glaze combinations I can create.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my mugs I have.  You can buy them on my Etsy web site The Butler's Creations. To see my mugs just click here to go to this site.
www.etsy.com/ca /shop/TheButlersCreations?section_id=7509176