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Here is an archive of things I sold already, because I wanted to keep them around for looking at.

Mugs 
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Sid . Sid is smooth matte black on the outside, dramatic ice-blue starburst on the inside. A perfect little handful for a small cup of tea. It is true that Sid and Wiggles are twins, but not identical twins.
Wiggles . Wiggles looks a lot like Sid to begin with, but he's *a little different.* His handle sticks out like a hunched shoulder. He's little and sleek, but something is clearly trapped inside, trying to get out. He and Sid are twins, but don't hold this against him.
Marguerite . Proud, petite wings spike out of Marguerite's sides. A delicate tail of a handle and turquoise décolletage complete her look. Here for possibility.
Eos . A fat little goddess of a mug to help you greet the day. Handle like a tail. Generous drips of turquoise runneth over.
Bluebeard . Bluebeard, red with blood, is know for murdering his wives. A handsome mug to be sure, though. Just don't marry him; use him to hold a good amount of coffee instead.
Flo . Half brick red, half taupe, with vibrant turquoise rivuletting down from the rim, Flo's thick juicy glaze threatens to ooze right onto the table, but doesn't quite. Enjoy her elf-ear handle and the aurora borealis on that one side. 
Claudia . Claudia's stout roundness holds a lot, and her glaze speaks the rich green and purple languages of the forest floor, while being chocolate-dipped.
Safety . Nice mossy color, solid handle, but something is for sure trying to escape from this mug.
Genevieve . Genevieve is a sturdy cylinder for sipping seafoam-topped salt water, cold like your feet in spring.
Sean . Sean is a good boy who keeps his collar clean even if he is (just a little) lopsided. Handle with a thumbed groove. Happy spiral downstairs.
Satchel . Satchel can bee worn as a backpack if you are a kitten or kitten-sized and don't mind the rigidity. Better to use him as a mug with holding options. He has a white satin finish and red raspberry drips. His straps of handle tug at the rim a bit.
Quin . A classic latte shape with a friendly, curly handle. Shiny cream color dipped in red, begs to be cupped with both hands.
Hen . Short for Henry, but not short for a mug, relatively average-heighted in fact. Appears to be made out of a partially burnt piece of wood, but is not. Is made out of clay.
Vlad . Vlad is dark, with a slight taper and vibrant insides, perfect for sipping the blood of your enemies. Or hot water with lemon.
Courtney . Courtney is blonde-to-gold, with water-blue glaze that fills in what used to be gentle curves along her mid-section. She loves especially that time of year when almost all the leaves are gone, but the larch, poplar, and ginkgo hold onto their yellows
Persephone . Her is Persephone, fresh from the underworld, dripping in decaying foliage. She's a creepy little mug, with a dark body and nip of a handle, but excellent for hot or cold beverages.
Saul . Saul is quiet and dependable as an antique radiator, white paint worn but not gone. Hot enough to dry your hat and mittens on.
 Sam . Sam is a good mug. He is pale with freckles and his favorite color is blue. Bit of a waxy feel, cinnamon-roll bottom, the most trustworthy handle shape.
Mary . Mary is a pie-crust colored mug dipped in strawberry jam that lives in a fluid state of ooze. Stripes on the inside, cinnamon-bun bottom.
Angela . Half lavender, half cream-spotted copper, behold, Angela is shaped to hold and be held.
Adventure . An extra large, pale gray mug describes a creature embarking on a grand Adventure, climbing past the curly clouds and up into the sky.
KeeKat . ​Mew mew mew mew mew mew mew.
Burst . Burst is all worm and galaxy. You can get lost in the chemical reactions on her insides. 8 oz
Violet . Like Violet Beauregarde in color and in attitude. Dependable and smart. 8 oz
Jim . Someone has already skated around Jim's ice rink. His bottom has been dipped in a metallic chocolate. He's the largest of the tumblers at 12 oz,
Annie . Annie's peachy grooves were created by dripping wax up from the bottom. A white skim of glaze describes the fjords in her red middle. 8 oz
George
Michael
Petal . This little pitcher looks like she's made of a very pale pink rose from last week. Her edge is a little raggedy and beginning to brown, but she's still beautiful and game to cold your milk (or whatever you want to put in a pitcher). Please note, she has an "s" crack on her bottom, which is something that happened in her first firing. It's sealed with glaze, so she's food safe, but I wouldn't get her too hot. 6 oz
Whale . Whale is really something special. They're at once elegant and awkward, sitting like a a sturdy canvas sack that hold's itself open pretty well, but has just begun to slouch. They're color scheme is creams and pale blues and turquoise, but there is an ocean of whirling noise up top to get lost in. About 16 oz capacity.
Arugula . 12 oz
Mars . 10 oz
Knucks . Knucks has not a handle, but five fingerles. Pale orange on the inside, gunmetal fingerles, and a delicate pattern in the gray of the outside, somewhere between a tidepool and a starry night sky.
Fate . Cousin It's cousin, I think, crawling out of Fate's dark, dreary side and on in. Drink up, don't want him to get any.
Max . I dreamed up Max after borrowing a mug so squat that I could set it on the couch next to me with no fear of it spilling. Max can do the same. He's got a happy little handle and coloring that puts me in mind of a midsummer field.
SweetieMug . Little cutie has a slight pot-belly and cool green glazing. I didn't know what she'd be, but she must have bumped into a vessel of a different color as she dried, leaving a heart-shaped mark. Felt meant-to-be, so I leaned into it rather than try to polish it away.
Mallow $30 . This one screams out for hot chocolate, with its large capacity, rich brown bottom, thick marshmallow glaze up top, whipped rim, and a handle big enough to keep your knuckles safe when it's piping hot.
Jermaine . Jermaine is one of my favorites, sweet but not too sweet, delicate but not to delicate, small but mighty. Eyeball-blue inside with a lichen of taupe and cream struck through with cranberry. Outside runs on a similar theme with some jewel-tone drips.
 Shrimpo . This shy lil guy has a gentle curve, tiger's eye-green body, and accommodating handle. He'll hold a small amount of liquid for you no problem.
Darling . Darling is the squattest mug I've made to date. She's fat-bottomed and reliable, and wearing her 1970's kitchenware best. She does have a bit of s-crack on her bottom, but is nonetheless sealed and resilient (and food-safe), just don't take her from hot to cold temperatures too quickly.
Apricot . This friend is a small polite mug with a sturdy, spoonish handle. The biggest handle I could attach to her without it starting to feel weird. Modest autumn tones on the outside, bright orange inside.
Poole . Poole is pale-purple, with hidden depths of blue. She's matte and gloss. She's contemplative and capacious. Sip and gaze with her.
Lanse . Lanse is very proud of his thumb-formed handle, which is prominent and curly, but does not detract from the landscape of his bowl. Please admire his green ocean, his dark galaxy, his gentle rolling hills of subtle purple. See his swirly bottom. Drink from his royal depths.
Jimmy . Jimmy is Lanse's older brother, and while he shares some of those same characteristics, and is in some ways more beautiful, his life has been a difficult one. Cut him some slack.
Scape . ​Scape is an early mug, a learning mug. When I tried to make the handle blue and the mug rusty white, I learned about the magic that can happen when glazes overlap. Through another accident of glazing, she has a symmetrical burst of pattern on her front, like a butterfly or a rib cage. She's covering in little glitter spots. (She also gave me a little lens flare in this photoshoot!)
Jan . Jan's split down the middle, with dueling personalities. She's half purply-black brooding, half drippy sunny wheat-field. With your help she can find balance. Please help!
Flannery . Flannery is freshly baked coppery goodness on the bottom with clean white icing up top, with a wide handle and a smattering of whimsical grooves carved around her middle. My first attempt at a hexagonal foot, which I think went well even if it's not cleanly done.

Grinn . Grinn is a pretty standard pink mug with a wide, comfy handle and he holds a generous amount of liquid. Shiny red glaze and toasted marshmallow up top. And, well...teeth. This mug has teeth. Pretty big ones. Sorry.
Stan . Good ol' Stan. Large but unassuming. Will lend an ear.
Sonny . ​Sonny might've been a can of beans in a past life. He's a solid yellow cylinder with delicate rusty accents and a whip of a handle that goes right inside. That handle has a fun grippy texture at its base that speaks of a dark past. But Sonny's just a mug now. Sonny can hang.
Jazz . Jazz is so shiny and electric! Bright but not too bright on a dark morning. Zippy with a broad handle. Very pleasant to hold.
Eudora . So many places to hold her! Eudora is a sea nymph, and has many sea-like qualities to prove - calm green waves, dark depths, and teeny textures on her arms that will put you in mind of an octopus.
Pinepoint . Smooth, vast, contemplative like our favorite beach at low tide. Waxy lollipop stick of handle (but clean!), bowl-shaped to hold all.
Shane . Clean lines, waxy-matte finish, chill purple, just an all-around good drinking-mug.
King . A large and fancy cup! Many swoops and spirals on him! So much of this favorite glaze that is drips right off the edge!
Jill . Jill is a window-gazing mug with impressive capacity. Simple stripes, a couple cute freckles amidst the white, a couple glaze-free kisses on her cheeks. Prominent foot, handle feels like hands made it (They did. My hands.).
Wherewithal . Hope on a cloudy day. A mug with a thin spot that makes it better than it could have been without. Dig that curly handle, and the mountainside.
Squee . ​Squee is a friendly little mouse pitcher that will hold a lot of milk! Tug on his sweet little ears. Caress his twirly tail! I was trying to make a globe when I threw him, but partway through the process he leapt off the wheel and into my arms and declared himself done! Precocious lil guy. 14 oz
Pastry .
Calm .
Rhodes .
Imogen .
Piper .
East End . Dark-edged and rough textured but still lovely, like that other beach. Funky handle. Smoky little remnants of last night's dream inside.
Cameron . Cameron is the cool kid. A wide cylinder with casual crossed handles, glaze that divots and bumps to the bottom, little moutainscape inside. Don't let the handle(s) fool you, and easy-drinking favorite.
Red Velvet . Red Velvet in that little boy's smile, layers cake and drips of jewel tones, a generous handle, a geometric bottom, a new religion that'll bring you to your knees.
Sven . ​Sven is PINT GLASS. Fill him with ale, climb a mountaintop, empty him into the sky. See where he might have been a mug, but the handle disengaged before he was finished? Perfect little thumb spot. Sven knew better. 16 oz
Lil Red . Lil Red is too beautiful to be photographed accurately. She has a slight pot-belly, with modest earth-tones on the outside and swirling jewel-tones on the inside, Her handle yanks on the rim so that it wrinkles.
Sally .
Claude .
Christine . Christine has lots of textures and nuances of color to speak of, and also every handle. Can't decide where you like to hold? No problem, this is every handle. Too many you say? No such thing! I dipped her in the glaze past my fingers and it left a fun design, I think.
Poseidon .
Charlotte . Get it? Charlotte's Web? Looks like Charlotte had decided to build her a set of new webs amongst the abandoned cobwebs of her ancestors. This mug features a handle that is tight to the body and a prominent foot. It may give you a fright to drink out of, but you'll be rewarded with a jolly little spiral at the bottom when you're finished.
Bingo . Bingo is curious and hopeful. He had a scratch on his face, but it's healing. Hold the handle, or hold onto his wings if you like. He trusts you.
Kelly . ​Kelly is a leather upholstered clarinet with real ivory (cruelty free). Just a gentle twist in her midsection and easy handling. 6 oz
Meg . Meg is cheery and geometric. Imperfectly painted, but she's trying. Sweet round ear of handle and spiral bottom.
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