This month, we’re diving into glazes.🫟 Inspired by Sarah from Three Little Potters, this challenge is all about testing, exploring, and rethinking what we already have. We all have those glazes. The ones we rarely reach for. The ones we tend to avoid… because they never quite turned out the way we hoped. Colors that feel off. Results that disappoint. Tests that didn’t go as planned. So this month, we’re choosing one of them. ✨ Pick one glaze you don’t like (or don’t trust yet) ✨ Combine it with 5 different glazes you already know and trust ✨ Test them layered, top & bottom, side by side — get curious ✨ Share your results How you do it? Completely up to you. Test tiles, small dishes, a cup, a plate… everything on one piece or separate tests — there’s no right or wrong way. This is about experimentation.🧪🔬 Try unusual combinations. 🤪 Push it further than you normally would. Be bold with it. At the end, take a moment to reflect: What worked? What didn’t? What surprised you? The goal isn’t perfection. It’s discovery.💡 And maybe, just maybe, the glaze you’ve been avoiding comes back to life. ✨ Share your process, your tests, your results ✨ Let’s learn from each other ✨ And turn “unloved” glazes into something unexpected

I made the plates in November and tried to get to a Cone 6 in my very old kiln but it just didn't make it so I put them at the top of the new kiln yesterday and used the Ceramic Materials Workshop Cone 6 firing schedule which was 300°c per hour until 100°c below top temp and then 150°c to top temp with no hold and just normal cooling. I filled the rest of the kiln up with other stuff, mostly things I will be donating to a cat charity at an event next weekend. Top temp 1243°c for a hot cone 6. The cone melted onto the shelf so I had to crumble it off. The kiln couldn't cope with the 300° per hour climb after 900°c so I will adjust that going forward. Everything is either x2 or 3 depending on the glaze thickness when I brush it on, with one layer for swishes or top fluxes. So, the plates came out fantastically, Obsidian and Ancient Copper with Seaweed, Textured Turquoise and Textured Kiwi Fruit strips. A few pinholes but these are for me so not a problem. Going to be using this again, they look amazing. Then a range of River Birch and Botz Plus melty cups. Lovely result, very happy. First one is RB plus Text Kiwi Fruit strip underneath, then Honey Flux with True Celadon and Botz Plus over the top half inch. Then 2 Rose Quartz items and only tiny outside pinholes on one - the first one has honeyflux over it with some cinnabar on the outside and botz plus on the edge, and the second has Rose Quartz with Lynette's Opal on it. Then a planter, Obsidian, RHC and Blue Rutile. Then Jane's First Seat in Clay which I made in the middle of winter and only just fired. A few other pieces as well, mainly some cracked glaze tester pots and some pet bowls for the event in plain colours. But apart from the plates - no pinholes at all. Very, very happy with this load.

This is Smokey Pearl over Stardust. It's on porcelain so the colors are not influenced by the clay body. The inside is Burning Embers. The Smokey Pearl over Burning Embers on the rim is also intriguing. Inside the foot ring ins just Stardust.

My “unliked” glaze is Speedball Coriander. Too matt and weird brownish-goldish color. I paired it with Stoned denim and followed by accents of Lt flux at rim and where the colors meet. I’m sooo happy with the result! I have a new appreciation for Coriander and now can’t wait to try some other combinations! Oh and the matt is really a satin finish and feels so good in my hand.🥰

I finally managed to finish editing and upload my Mystery Glaze Chip experiment video to YouTube 💜 To put this experiment into context… I actually started this around 6 weeks ago 😅 It’s involved: ✨ two low-fire firings ✨ two cone 6 firings ✨ multiple rounds of testing ✨ test tiles AND actual functional pieces Some of you may have spotted a few of the pieces appearing in my last kiln opening video, and quite a few people have been asking what on earth I’ve been testing 😂 As most of you know… I LOVE glaze chips, I LOVE testing, and I really wanted to venture into the unknown a little and see just how far I could take this experiment. Needless to say… this definitely isn’t the end of it. If anything, this feels like the beginning because I now want to take the testing even further 👀 It’s honestly taken me over 2.5 weeks just to edit together all the footage, firings, tests and photos from the past 6 weeks into one video, and trying to make it flow coherently was definitely a challenge 😅 So apologies if parts feel a little chaotic or rabbit-warren-like! But I’m genuinely SO excited by some of the things I’ve learned and some of the results that came out of this. I actually shared a tiny sneak peek of this experiment in a Skool call weeks ago, so this is where the experiment has progressed to now 💜 Would absolutely love to hear what you think if you decide to take a peek 😊 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srzbVWc8kZo