wherein Liz plays with clay

[edenfalling]

When I went to NJ to dognap Dottie in September, I dropped by the pottery studio where my friend Susan works and made two rather awkward pinch pots for an event/project the studio was doing. My latest dognapping venture (this past weekend) happened to overlap the sale days for those pots (proceeds to benefit two local charities), so I figured I'd buy them if they were still available, which they were. And now here I am with two new pots and no clear idea what to do with them.

I'm toying with the idea of trying to propagate new jade plants from my big tentacle-y jade plant, and then maybe giving them to people as gifts next year...?

But anyway, two pots! Susan picked the glazes; the designs, however, are all me. The first is just a geometric thing that looked nice to me, with no deeper significance. The second is a simplified variant of one of the infinitely extendable border designs I used to doodle around my notebooks in high school and college. I have included an example (sketched really quick in MS Paint) of the full design for comparison purposes -- as you can see, I didn't try to put the bubbles or the indication of sand/seafloor onto the pot.


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Comments

[branchandroot]

Those came out pretty nicely, especially if this isn't something you do regularly! I think they'd look very pretty as jade planters.

[edenfalling]

Thanks! They wouldn't work for very long as jade planters -- they're only 3 and a smidge inches in interior rim diameter, so the plants would outgrow them. (Unless bonsai'd. Can on bonsai jade plants...? Eh, tangential.) But they'd do pretty nicely for baby succulents, I think, with the right sand and stones as a drainage base below the soil. And I have been wanting to try propagating succulents since I reblogged a Tumblr post on how to do that, so. :)