The Potscast

This week I chat with the effervescent, Helen McCormick, a former High School Teacher, who has swapped hormonal teenagers for enthusiastic adults. After filling us in on her workshops and teaching ethos, she gives us (ok, klutzy me 😳) a sausage rolling lesson.

As a Potscast exclusive,  she also reveals how ‘Chedigeddon’, occurred, an explosive bombshell, which has remained a secret until now…😉

It’s easy to hear Helen’s passion for her Devon town, Cullompton, as she outlines her future plans to help her community and we discovered many shared teaching experiences, centred on exhaustion, but the main thing we agreed on was…

when all else fails, just laugh it out…

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Helen’s Gallery

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This is what happened on our Instagram Live!

If you want to see if they fit…

and you can see me finish them off with custom coloured slip decoration.

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This week on The Potscast, I offer you a PSA - Potters Service Announcement.

Having interviewed quite a few brilliant potters, I’ve decided to choose the best 5 Nuggets of advice, ostensibly for beginning potters, but some things, I think we could all benefit from remembering 😁

What happened to the big Petal bowl?

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In this short episode, I make the case for coloured slip as an alternative to both underglaze and glazes. I also give a few updates and an interesting idea for potters needing a bit of a break 🤔…

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Working with Coloured Slips

Update on the Minibowls

Update on my forever Coffee Mug

Competition Results!

Congratulations Jade Murphy, Marianne Russo & Emily Burkhalter 🎉🎊

Have a great week everyone!

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This week, I’m chatting with the pottery passionate Yael Braha. Our conversation travels from Libya to North Carolina, via Rome and Canada in a story wrapped up in a Cous Cous pot.

We segue quite nicely from the importance of food and how it shapes us, to the joy of curiosity and the infinite possibilities of clay.

Did I mention we spend some time chinwagging about the brilliant (but bonkers) Mr Tim See?

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The Handcrafted Shop Companion Gallery

Red Lodge Clay Center Gandee Gallery

Have a great week everyone!

P.S. Competition Reveal Next Week!

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This week on the Potscast, I welcome Great Pottery Throwdown Finalist, Christine Cherry.

Full disclosure, this is what me ‘fangirling‘ sounds like, because Christine is one of my all time favourite Throwdown contestants.

Christine and I discuss her development from ‘just someone who makes pottery’ to being able to call herself ‘A Potter’ and not for the first time, The Potscast becomes home to my own personal crusade to eliminate Imposter Syndrome.

We also discuss the effect of her Throwdown appearance on her life and her inner self.

Enjoy!

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Have a great week

Whenever you recognise you’re being too hard on yourself , have a dance to this song 😁

This week, I catch up with one of my favourite fellow posters in the Pottery Studio Facebook group, Cathy Burgard.

She sold herself as a baby potter 😁 but I will forever call her the “I can do that!” Potter, because as she gets talking, we discover, not only has she built herself a gas fired kiln, but she’s currently in the process of building herself a Raku kiln. 😮

Enjoy a dip into Cathy’s Can Do world…

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Welcome to a short and snappy episode this week. In short, I’m annoyed about mugs…

Have a great week everyone, I’m off to make more mugs, just in case 😳

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Competition!

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This week on The Potscast, I’m not interviewing another Potter. I’m interviewing a friend turned customer, who was instrumental in helping me define what I wanted from my business.

I’m always talking about how each piece has a story and how the story can turn ‘a browser’ into ‘a customer’. Dori and I discuss the stories of the creation of our favourite, and least favourite unicorns, sorry pieces… 😁

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2 Tickets 🎟 3 Day Admission

Las Vegas Keto Health Expo

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Week A begins on Monday 10th (tomorrow)

Following on from last week’s Nature episode, this week I’m up to my elbows in mud 😁

My potter brain started something and a series was born. This is how it started. The link to the full series is below. (Mud to Clay 5 & 6 show the differences in drying)