I’m currently watching Angela throw live on my phone — and it’s just the most beautiful thing. Gigi is there, Sarah, Pat, Denise, Mary, Ronda… and Lori from Wandering Soul too. We’re all in the chat together, reacting, cheering her on. And it hit me. We’re all there… but we can’t actually talk to each other. So let’s change that. 💪🏻 What if we start a weekly community call?🪿 We could pick a time that works best for most of us, and then meet once a week right here on Skool. Just one hour. Nothing complicated. Everyone who wants to can share their “Piece of the Week” — something you’re working on, something you finished, a struggle, a question, an idea. You’ll have the space to show your work, ask for feedback, and just connect.✨ No pressure. Just pottery people hanging out, supporting each other. What do you think? Would you join? 💛

Translation: There is More Than One Way to Shape the Clay Let me start by saying: no cats were harmed in the making of this post.😸 But you know the old expression. 'there’s more than one way to do a thing'. And if you’ve spent any time in the clay world (or on YouTube), you already know that’s true. - Throwing a cylinder. - Pulling a handle. - Voicing a whistle. - Building a flute chamber. Give ten clay makers the same project and you’ll get ten approaches (and at least twelve opinions). And that’s a good thing. Just because someone else is demonstrating a project similar to yours doesn’t mean you should hold back from showing your method. Your hands have learned something different. Your eyes notice different cues. Your rhythm at the bench is your own. What Makes Skool Different On SKOOL, we’re not just broadcasting into the void. We’re building community. Community means: - Conversation - Feedback - Shared experiments - Honest “Well, here’s what happened when I tried that…” moments If you’ve ever left a workshop realizing you learned as much from the folks at your table as from the instructor, you understand. That’s not a knock on the teacher, quite the opposite. The best instructors know they’re cultivating a learning ecosystem, not a one-way lecture. That is Why I’m Here... I’m learning here too. As I share methods for constructing clay, I hope some of what I demonstrate is helpful. But I also hope you’ll show your approach, especially if it’s different. Because sometimes the magic isn’t in the “right” way. After all, sometimes it’s in seeing five good ways…and discovering a sixth together. I'm stepping off my soap box now...and I promise not to land on the cat!

POTTERY FRIENDS ❣️ I can’t hold it in anymore!!! I’m gonna be in this years ClayShareCon 2026 February 18th-21st and I’m gonna show my NEW studio tour. ClayShareCon is the Worlds biggest online pottery conference and it’s FREE! Please join the conference! So many amazing classes and collaborations with pottery businesses. My studio tour will be Friday morning at 8:30 AM (New York time) It’ll be the “warm up” video for that day 🎉 www.clayshare.com

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Before heading to Antarctica, I managed to finish one last project today.☕️☕️☕️ It started as an idea last Saturday and came together surprisingly fast. On Sunday, a friend and I hand-built ten cups and added our gym’s logo. On Monday, I threw a few more cups, trying to match the same size — again with our gym logo. After that, the usual rhythm followed: drying, bisque firing on Thursday, unloading on Friday, sanding and glazing, loading the kiln again on Saturday — and today I finally unloaded them so I could bring them to the gym to be used for coffee.🔥 Even though I worked with the same reference and the same stencil, every cup turned out a little different. Because of that, I decided to glaze them in 15 different shades of blue. Not every blue came out truly blue — the differences are pretty striking.💙🔷🔵🩵🌀 I’ll show this in more detail in my kiln loading/unloading video. I’m not sure yet when it’ll be edited and uploaded — maybe Tuesday, before I leave. What’s your first impression?