I like your detail mugs! Very original! The drippy lavender cup is lovely, too. So nice of you to share your pottery-making with friends and family.

Everything very nice😅

Hey! So glad to see you again. I’m so sorry the baking dish warped so much. Please remember that clay has memory. So if you bend it and flatten it out again it will remember the way you bent it and it will bend back that way. Also when you dry handbuilt pieces that are flat you need to put weights on the flat part until it’s completely dry. You can fill socks with kitty litter or sand and use them as weights. I love your pieces you’re doing great with all the glaze combinations. And yes when using kiln stilts it will make the clay sag in the areas where it’s not supported. The leaking is as people have said. Be sure to use witness cones on each shelf if you can to make sure the kiln is getting hot enough. Also be very very careful refiring pots that have had liquid in them and leaked like that because the clay is now wet and could explode. Make sure you let pieces like that dry reallllly well before firing again. For the mugs that you want the lettering on maybe you could put the writing on a round piece of clay and put the writing on it then apply that to the side of the mug. Then it will be raised and you don’t have to put any glaze on it just the mug and it won’t run? If you have any questions please let me know and I’ll try and help explain better. Loving the mugs. Even if they aren’t round. They are hand made. I love how you put the glaze combos on the screen! It’s so helpful to take a screen shot. Great kiln load!!

interesting work, i like it. Cheer

Great unload Suza! With your cup that is leaking the problem is that your clay isn’t vitrified. Liquid will leak through glaze if clay has not been fired to a high enough temperature. My favourite piece is that nimbus mug even though it ran. I’ve got to give nimbus another try 😊

You can use the rainbow bowl for a bird Bath.

Oh no your large dish so bright and beautiful. What a shame that it bent out of shape, the colours look fantastic. I hope you enjoy your holidays. How lucky that you can get some coyote glazes. Look forward to seeing what you get. That last mug you were holding turned out fantastic. I love the colour of it. Take care

aaawwww...that baking dish would have been SO LOVELY! I love the colors, but so sorry it warped so badly in the kiln! New to your channel and just subscribed! hoping to see more of your kiln openings! You have a friend here in New Jersey, USA....just keep potting, do not give up!

I test all my mugs after firing by putting hot water in them. If the clay isn't fired to the required temperature to vitrify it, it will weep and you will get moisture under the mug. All clays have a certain temp for vitrification so you have to look at that when you buy it. Also, for dinnerware I look for clay that has an absorbtion rate

Your glaze technique is really great, glazing is (to me) the hardest thing to learn. The mug that leaked coffee, the inside of the mug looked like it had texture, not very smooth glass like finish. This could be because not fired at full temp or the glaze may not be completely compatible with the clay? Either way it could harbor bacteria in the texture so may not be 100% food safe. Also, the mug not being completely round, could that be the metal kiln stands? Or, some clay has a deep memory, like porcelain, so if it was out of round while drying it could revert to that shape during firing even if you fixed it before completely dry/bisque. Hope that made sense. You are doing really good, your pieces are so gorgeous .

Put square dish straight on kiln shelf, not glazed bottom, and use something so the clay can move a bit. Dont use stilta.

Hi from Oregon, USA. I enjoyed your video. How old is your son? I’m teaching one of my grandsons. My hand built mugs don’t come out round, either, because the clay has a memory. I hope you’re having a wonderful time on your trip! Which part of the US are you visiting?