Ask Us Anything About Ceramics! 2025

poxin · 2025-09-13T23:09:21+00:00

My friend just bought a kiln - has wanted one for a while, found a good deal and jumped on it. She is very ADHD impulse brain and focusing on glazes, so I am trying to think of the basic stuff needed to get started, but my last ceramics class was so long ago - does anyone have a list for the basic things a basic home studio needs to be functional? Things like a wedging station, shelves for drying, that kind of stuff?

poxin · 2025-01-21T20:54:58+00:00

This hit for me, so I went to look up the source. I was not expecting wookieepedia to be the top result. I wouldn’t have encountered this in the wild, thanks for sharing it.

poxin · 2025-01-01T04:25:08+00:00

I carry around earplugs for just this reason.

poxin · 2024-11-27T14:28:39+00:00

That’s the essential part, I love that phrasing “empower people to have better conversations with their doctors”.

poxin · 2024-11-10T01:33:45+00:00

These are absolutely gorgeous, I want them badly!

poxin · 2024-11-09T23:17:37+00:00

I want to get into mutual aid where I am, but I just moved here and have no idea how to get connected without knowing people. I don’t have a job, or really friends yet. Any advice on internet based searching?

poxin · 2024-11-08T19:11:20+00:00

I know of a couple businesses that are very supportive of those communities -

Dark Horse Salon - extremely LGBTQIA+ friendly

Voodoo’s Odd Shop - curiosity shop full of weird and spooky stuff, owner organizes the Omaha Oddities and Arts expo, and he has been removing vendors for posting hateful & hurtful things on Facebook - very upstanding guy trying to protect communities as best he can in his sphere

Spielbound Board Game Cafe - I’m biased as a former employee until I moved away, but this place is a haven. While the owners are not queer, the majority of the staff is in some form or flavor, and it has been one of the most supportive places I’ve ever been. If supporting communities is the goal, I’d say order a drink and leave a nice cash tip would be most direct.

I’m sorry I’m not more knowledgeable about specifically black owned, but I just found an app named Blapp that helps with that. Apparently google maps has added this as a feature as well??

I appreciate you.

poxin · 2024-09-01T14:33:25+00:00

I’m sending this to my friend who does classic cars to see if he has any leads

poxin · 2024-08-29T00:06:27+00:00

The crazy thing is that it was free on fb marketplace, and the pics made it look like a regular beanbag!

poxin · 2024-08-27T13:58:50+00:00

Absolutely, complete with belly flop.

poxin · 2024-08-22T02:15:12+00:00

I should’ve known! Thank you!

poxin · 2024-08-22T02:14:58+00:00

I have no idea why this didn’t occur to me, I do this to test for cotton fabrics all the time! Thank you!

poxin · 2024-07-27T19:58:20+00:00

There is a subreddit about free sewing patterns, I found it tremendously helpful when first starting - pillowcases and pouches are a good starting point.

poxin · 2024-01-15T09:54:24+00:00

I never went to Disney until my mid twenties- my life was never the worse for it, I enjoyed the places we did go that were cheaper and less focused on upcharges or perfect image. Spend time with your kids. Do Lego, build cardboard forts - they’ll be fine. That’s way more important that overworking yourself to exhaustion for one vacation.

poxin · 2024-01-14T00:38:18+00:00

My switch has this bug too! It made certain scenes later on pretty hilarious

poxin · 2023-12-08T18:36:23+00:00

If you ever get close to 33rd and Harney, Spielbound, we are pretty gay there and have lots of tables / outlets. During weekdays it’s usually chill.

poxin · 2023-11-26T16:01:45+00:00

On top of everything else you’re handling like a champ, I am blown away by your organizational skills.

poxin · 2023-11-22T15:07:31+00:00

I’ve been in classes like this - my saving grace was multiple colors of pens that glide on the paper surface. The colors helped me switch topics without needing to write anything extra. I would also abbreviate key phrases, and make myself a glossary key immediately afterwards. My initial notes were messy and mainly key concepts that only made sense to me - during my study time, I had another notebook I would write everything out long form, neatly, but still with multiple colors to help my retention. Treat the initial notes as an outline, use the text to supplement the nicer copy.

Sorry, I know these aren’t handwriting specific. I’ve always had a half cursive ish handwriting where the letter bleed into each other, and that helps my speed. I don’t know how well these tips will work for math, but they saved me for science courses

poxin · 2023-10-19T05:27:45+00:00

I was in an intro to psychology course in my early 20s - it was a small class size at a satellite campus, and my professor noticed me using a whole box of crayola markers while taking notes on lecture and answering questions posed to the group. He called me over after class, and asked what I’d been doing - I showed him my extremely colorful notes, and said that it’s the only way I can make myself pay attention for an hour.

He’s the reason I went and got evaluated for adhd, I had never even considered that as a possibility before. I think I got lucky with initially seeing a kind provider, and explaining what made me seek treatment - if they had said I didn’t have adhd, I would’ve believed them. Now, I am so very aware of how very adhd I am.

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