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DAY 22 – Making Something each Day Keeps The Anxiety Away

The backstorySINCE THIS LOCKDOWN is lasting longer than originally anticipated . . .

I have decided to move from doing vases only. From what I have learned around how pottery has helped my PTSD, my plans to help manage the stress and anxiety on lockdown are simple: I will continuing to make a new item for each day.

I aim to continue updating this post each day with my latest lockdown thing I made! (I am looking for ideas! Submit what you think I should make here!)

Phew!

You can also see finished vases (ie not raw clay) here

Day 22 – A pillar candleholder [image error] previous days’ Day 21 Day 18 Day 15 Day 12 Day 9 Day 6Day 3 Day 20 Day 17 Day 14 Day 11 Day 8 Day 5Day 2 Day 19 Day 16 Day 13 Day 10 Day 7Day 4 Day 1‘Making something each day keeps the anxiety away’.

Let me know what you think of the latest creation(s) in the comments below.

Stay safe everyone!

On The Wheel Wednesday

A candle loses nothing by lighting Another Candle.

Keeping it going as part of lockdown vases

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DAY 20 (?) – A Vase A Day Keeps The Anxiety Away

SINCE THIS LOCKDOWN is lasting longer than originally anticipated . . .

I have decided to move from doing vases only. From what I have learned around how pottery has helped my PTSD, my plans to help manage the stress and anxiety on lockdown are simple: I will continuing to make a new item for each day.

I aim to continue updating this post each day with my latest lockdown thing I made! (I am looking for ideas! Submit what you think I should make here!)

Phew!

You can also see finished vases (ie not raw clay) here

Day 20 – A FLOWER POT! previous days’ Day 19 Day 18 Day 15 Day 12 Day 9 Day 6Day 3 Day 17 Day 14 Day 11 Day 8 Day 5Day 2 Day 16 Day 13 Day 10 Day 7Day 4 Day 1‘Making something each day keeps the anxiety away’.

Let me know what you think of the latest creation(s) in the comments below.

Stay safe everyone!

Co-Create With Me

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I would like to invite you – yes you over there sipping on your coffee, or wine (depending on your timezone) – to co-create with me!

Need a mug for the coffee? We’ve got you covered! Wine tumblers are coming soon too!As you may know, we are under lockdown again.

At the start of what was supposed to be a two week lockdown, I had decided I would do a vase a day for every day the lockdown lasted. You can see what I have been making here.

It’s been over two weeks now, and of course I love making vases. It’s kind of my thing. But with no clear end in sight for this lockdown, I thought it would be fun to change things up just a little bit.

This is where you all come in.

I would like to invite you to suggest a pottery project for me to make on the wheel as part of my daily throwing for this lockdown. I will choose a couple ideas from the comments to make each week!

So much potential in this little ball of clay.

What should we make?I am open to any and all suggestions

But will be looking for things that could possibly be prototypes for new products, or something that I might find useful around here.

I hope you are all well and have a fabulous week ahead!

Day 19 – A Vase A Day Keeps The Anxiety Away

Continuing to pull

From what I have learned around how pottery has helped my PTSD, my plans to help manage the stress and anxiety on lockdown are simple: I will be making a new vase for each day.

I aim to continue updating this post each day with my latest lockdown vase!

Phew!

Or at least that is the plan.

You can also see finished vases (ie not raw clay) here

Day 19 previous days’ vases Day 18 Day 15 Day 12 Day 9 Day 6Day 3 Day 17 Day 14 Day 11 Day 8 Day 5Day 2 Day 16 Day 13 Day 10 Day 7Day 4 Day 1‘Making a vase a day keeps the anxiety away’.

Let me know what you think of the latest vase(s) in the comments below.

Stay safe everyone!

Day 18 – A Vase A Day Keeps The Anxiety Away

Continuing to pull

From what I have learned around how pottery has helped my PTSD, my plans to help manage the stress and anxiety on lockdown are simple: I will be making a new vase for each day.

I aim to continue updating this post each day with my latest lockdown vase!

Phew!

Or at least that is the plan.

You can also see finished vases (ie not raw clay) here

Day 19 previous days’ vases Day 18 Day 15 Day 12 Day 9 Day 6Day 3 Day 17 Day 14 Day 11 Day 8 Day 5Day 2 Day 16 Day 13 Day 10 Day 7Day 4 Day 1‘Making a vase a day keeps the anxiety away’.

Let me know what you think of the latest vase(s) in the comments below.

Stay safe everyone!

Day 18 – A Vase A Day Keeps The Anxiety Away

Continuing to pull

From what I have learned around how pottery has helped my PTSD, my plans to help manage the stress and anxiety on lockdown are simple: I will be making a new vase for each day.

I aim to continue updating this post each day with my latest lockdown vase!

Phew!

Or at least that is the plan.

You can also see finished vases (ie not raw clay) here

Day 18 previous days’ vases Day 17 Day 16 Day 15 Day 12 Day 9 Day 6Day 3 Day 14 Day 11 Day 8 Day 5Day 2 Day 13 Day 10 Day 7Day 4 Day 1‘Making a vase a day keeps the anxiety away’.

Let me know what you think of the latest vase(s) in the comments below.

Stay safe everyone!

This Week At The Studio In Photos

A tulip blooming Making a vase a day to deal with anxiety as part of this most recent covid lock down.

This is day 16’s vase. You can see more here! Day 18’s will be up later today! My first try making doughnuts! A bee on the haskap bush, the first fruit flowers of the year We danced our way through the week with Footloose
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A squirrel enjoying the late afternoon sunThat’s been the week here.

How’s your week been?

Kevin Bacon’s Secret Pandemic Inspiration

In an Alternate Universe, one can only Hope They had a Different Timeline for their Pandemics

Today’s story for the raku pottery vase, ‘Footloose‘, tells the tale of a pandemic that is now long forgotten. – which is a good thing, for we’d all be envious that we got stuck living through covid instead of the Dancing Pandemic!

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Largely misunderstood

And tucked away in some corner of the dance floor of history, are a series of small plagues/pandemics that occurred in Europe from 7th century to the 17th century. One of the most well known of these took place in 1518 in France!

Those afflicted by this pandemic

Would dance for days, to the point of exhaustion and seemed to be in an alternate state of consciousness. It was rumoured some would indeed ‘dance till they’re dead’, but for the most part it seemed this condition would eventually resolve on it’s own with few fatalities.

No one is quite sure what caused this pandemic.

There were many theories, that included spider bites, demonic possession, or even directly blaming Satan. Contemporary historians have theorized that the cause could have been ergot poisoning, or mass psychosis from the miserable conditions of life at the time, but I have another theory.

The kids just want to dance!Was the dancing plague/pandemic the original ‘Footloose’?

In such repressive times, dancing would have often been frowned upon, probably by the same people who tried to cure the dancers with an exorcism. Fortunately, it was most often ‘cured’ by allowing the dancing to run it’s course. Many magistrates even provided the music to help dancers ‘shimmy’ the sickness away!

I am sure they too were tapping their feet.

So if I have to live through another pandemic, I choose this one! Maybe we could exchange covid for this one?

What do you think of today’s raku pottery vase ‘Footloose’ and our story today? And if you were living through a dancing pandemic and could make a song request to the DJ, which song would you pick? Let us know in the comments below!

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Day 17 – A Vase A Day Keeps The Anxiety Away

Continuing to pull

From what I have learned around how pottery has helped my PTSD, my plans to help manage the stress and anxiety on lockdown are simple: I will be making a new vase for each day.

I aim to continue updating this post each day with my latest lockdown vase!

Phew!

Or at least that is the plan.

You can also see finished vases (ie not raw clay) here

Day 17 previous days’ vases Day 16 Day 14 Day 12 Day 10 Day 8 Day 6Day 4Day 2 Day 15 Day 13 Day 11 Day 9 Day 7 Day 5Day 3 Day 1‘Making a vase a day keeps the anxiety away’.

Let me know what you think of the latest vase(s) in the comments below.

Stay safe everyone!