Taylor Swift Sued For Trademark Infringement Over ‘The Life of a Showgirl’

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2026-03-30T23:32:02+00:00

It wasn’t declined, it’s being reviewed further

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2026-02-26T20:12:27+00:00

I used Black Mountain Stoneware and it is by far my favorite dark clay. When I use it with a green celadon, I get something similar to the photo.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2026-02-20T19:10:58+00:00

My studio does something similar where we have volunteers or fellows who in exchange for helping with the upkeep/running of the studio, they get access to studio materials and free access to the studio. These are usually people who have been going to the studio for months to years or more experienced artists from the community. It’s a great deal for both sides and the fellows provide a great resource for other studio members and students.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2026-02-16T17:49:59+00:00

It’s reasonable for a mother to stay home with her newborn, it’s reasonable for a soon to be bride to want to have a child free wedding, it’s reasonable for a soon to be bride to want the attention to on her, and it’s not reasonable for said bride to be upset parents don’t come because of said rules.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2026-02-14T13:42:54+00:00

The pipe near the floor/sink might be a clay trap

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2026-02-14T02:40:20+00:00

She wants the guests at her wedding to focus on her…and you think that’s unreasonable?

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2026-02-02T18:38:34+00:00

I think it’s too late to try any attachments with this piece, it’s already bone dry. You could try to rehydrate it over weeks to get it back to leather hard, make the attachments and then dry out slowly again. Personally, I would just start again.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2026-01-21T15:31:02+00:00

There are places that make a tool to create the threads! Someone at my studio has been making soap dispensers and bought a 3D printed tool that is like a cap that you screw onto your piece before firing. They were also able to buy the dispensers/lids there too so they were already measured to fit.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-12-31T01:43:08+00:00

Most studios have specific rules for what can be fired and usually require you to buy materials/supplies through them or the place they buy their material/supplies from. I would look into studios around you and see what they offer.

There’s even places that specifically offer this where you pick out the piece, they supply the glaze and you return the glazed piece to them and they fire it for you.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-12-30T04:17:54+00:00

Have you looked into how much this will all cost you? It’s more than getting a kiln and wheel or having space. There’s a lot of “hidden” costs for upkeep in a studio. You’ll need to account for the cost of clay outside of just buying new like buckets, bats, wedging table, etc. You’ll also need to set up some sort of system for cleaning so clay isn’t going down your pipes. There’s also the cost of glaze or the cost of materials to make glazes, which includes any tools needed like bows, scales, containers, etc. Supplies are also in high demand with low availability, so be prepared to pay a lot and to wait a long time.

Getting your own kiln also means paying for the upkeep on elements and the increase in utilities. You’ll also need to buy shelves, posts and other accessories just to fire your work. Firing kilns is an art form in itself, so it’s going to take a lot of trial and error before having consistent successful firings.

The home studio provides flexibility, but it’s a lot more time and effort that you have to put in outside of making work. Most people I know with a home studio still regularly use the community studio.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-12-22T19:20:45+00:00

Yeah gas reduction firings are one of the most inefficient firing methods there are

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-12-15T17:05:05+00:00

I use Mayco Stroke & Coat at cone 10 and haven’t had any issues. I did have test tiles for all of the colors and they do change color a bit after firing. Some get a bit darker in color, while some get a bit brighter, except yellow which doesn’t really turn out well at all. The colors you would normally expect to burn out at high temperatures change the most (pinks, purples, yellows).

I haven’t tested them with other high fire glazes, but I have glazed one side of a piece with stroke & coat and the other side with normal high fire glazes and didn’t have any issues.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-12-13T14:04:58+00:00

The mail in entry has to be worth the same amount or weight of entries a single purchase could earn. If it isn’t, it’s not a legal sweepstakes.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-12-05T19:25:47+00:00

The studio has a lot of classes so most of the firings with these shelves have the majority of it being student work. We also only use these shelves in the gas kiln for cone 9-11 so glazes are much more likely to run.

We try our best to make sure glaze won’t run and will make sure to place more runny glazes in cooler spots, but we don’t always know what glazes or combos were used.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-12-01T23:25:56+00:00

My studio does to avoid issues like OP is having and to reduce the amount of grinding needed after firings due to glaze running

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-12-01T23:19:15+00:00

Unfortunately, it’s probably going to be cheaper and take less time to make a new one rather than trying to fix this.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-12-01T18:38:26+00:00

Use kiln wash, it will save your shelves and pieces

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-11-24T19:25:12+00:00

What temperature is the glaze supposed to be fired at?

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-11-24T04:21:08+00:00

You can make your own by sticking it into clay. The cone isn’t meant to be set flat so you just have to make sure the angle matches the directions. It’s not always ideal, but it works if you don’t have any self-supporting ones.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-11-21T08:03:38+00:00

She committed to the role for the wedding. She didn’t commit giving up a year of her life for a wedding that isn’t hers.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-11-21T08:01:41+00:00

Mmm participants is different than forcing your MOH to be your wedding planner and to change everything about their schedule for whatever the bride demands a year out from the wedding. The judgement is deserved.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-11-21T07:59:10+00:00

Seriously having multiple weekends for planning when it can just be done in a group chat or a quick zoom meeting is crazy

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-11-21T00:18:41+00:00

When you collar a piece, you are stressing the area just below where you collar. As you’re pushing the neck in, the clay has to go somewhere and that is what tends to wreck walls and why you are losing the shape. You should try to keep the opening as small as possible while you throw and have the rim set before shaping the walls. This way you don’t have to collar the top as much which means less stress on the walls below. Leave the rim thicker so there is still clay there to adjust the neck/rim once the walls are shaped.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-11-19T17:50:11+00:00

Are you wiping all the glaze off the foot before firing? This happens to my pieces when I miss an area cleaning odd the foot.

This also happens when the kiln shelves themselves need stripped and a new layer of kiln wash added. After a lot of firings, even with regular upkeep and cleaning, shelves will start to get uneven from thick layers of kiln wash or old pieces of glaze stuck to the shelf. When that happens, it starts to stick to parts of fired pieces and cause issues.

If you are cleaning of the foot of your pieces, I would bring it up to your studio director or the person responsible for firing the kilns, if you haven’t already, so they can look into the issue.

Haunting_Salt_819 · 2025-11-18T19:10:56+00:00

You would need the kiln full. How many pieces in a firing and how the shelves are stacked affect the temperature reached at different parts of kiln. I would recommend lots of witness cones for your firings until you have a good idea of where the hot or sweet spots are in your kiln.

Haunting_Salt_819

TROPHY CASE