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March 28, 2021
The Newest Oldest Pottery You’ve Ever Seen!
It was considered a great milestone in the development of civilization – in part because people were tired of drinking their wine out of wooden buckets.
Revisiting my first pit firing!Learn more about pit firing here
With such an interesting story behind these pieces, and their ethereal smokey qualities with small splashes of textures and depth, pit-fired pottery makes a welcome gift for someone who likes unique and eclectic one of a kind pieces that are worth beholding. (Perhaps you!)
Check out our selection of pit fired pieces here.
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See more pit-fired vases hereLooking forward to sending a pit-fired vase to it’s new home!And if you want to win a free raku pottery vase of your own
This Week At The Studio In Photos
Rhubarb is beginning to peak out!
A new vase story is ready for your consumption with Demeter’s Sacred Grove$94
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Chairman Meow had an absolutely delightful time dressing up for spring!
Madame Pele’s Flow is in the ring for this month’s Thursday Throwdown!Get your votes in!
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Finneas was shocked(!)- to see winter come back! That’s March in Nova Scotia!That’s been the week here.
How’s your week been?
March 27, 2021
I’d Like To Give You A Free Vase! (for real)
As I start to plant seed starts for the garden, my mind remembers something else I am trying to grow! Our pottery giveaway! But I can’t do this without your help!
Our ‘Great Pottery Giveaway’ items so far:
A Mug for your drinks!
A cute little turtle!Pssst! In case you haven’t heard, we’ve decided to do a ‘Great Pottery Giveaway’!And you can help us increase the prize pool. All you need to do is sign up for our newsletter here! As we gain subscribers we will be adding items to our giveaway basket, and at the end of the year, one of our subscribers will win the gift basket.
I’d like to add one of our signature raku pottery vases to the giveaway. And we are getting really close. All we need is an additional 36 people to sign up to our newsletter.
Why sign up?Automatically be entered into this and other pottery giveawaysAn inside look at what we are up toAdvance notification of sales and special offersA first peak at new workWatch our small little art studio grow and inside tips on how we are doing itYou might be the winner of what I hope is a great pottery haul!So do not hesitate, sign up today! The odds are better than the lottery, so tell your pottery loving friends and please share!
Thanks for your consideration and I hope you have a wonderful week!And let me know in the comments what colour of raku pottery vase you would be most interested in us including in this prize package!
“Eat The Rich” They Say? Sometimes They Eat Themselves!
If your last name rhymes with ‘husk’, ‘dump’ or you own a company that misappropriates a mythological tribe of female warriors, you may not want to read this week’s story.
Our raku pottery vase, ‘Demeter’s Sacred Grove‘ tells the tale of of a man whose relentless pursuit of riches, disregard for the environment, and endless hunger of wanting all he and his army of servants could carry lead to not only to a pissed off God, but the origin of the phrase ‘Eat the Rich‘.
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Erysichthon was used to getting what he wanted.
It’s not his fault that his parents never taught him to control his appetite for wealth. He was a King after all!
One day, after he had deforested all the nearby parts of his Kingdom of Thessaly, drunk on the power of his wealth, his attentions turned towards Demeter’s sacred grove. He ordered his men to cut down ALL of the trees in this grove.
He would be deprived of nothing!When his men came upon a magnificent oak, that was covered in wreaths to symbolize people’s prayers to Demeter, they refused to cut it down. The rightfully feared the retribution of the gods. Erysichthon was having none of that. He grabbed an axe and cut down the mighty oak himself.
As the tree fell, he killed a nymph who was protecting the grove in the process. Her dying words were a curse, a curse that Demeter heard as a prayer, and one she was happy to grant as she was the god of the fertility, nature, harvest – and sacred law.
The King’s curse was ‘Limos’.Now we are not talking about the ones that come with chauffeurs! ‘Limos’ was an insatiable hunger. So insatiable that Erysichthon sold everything he owned for food. This precious ruby can be yours for a nice souvlaki dinner!
This satisfied his unrelenting appetite for awhile, until he had sold everything he owned.
Well not quite everything . . .You see Erysichthon had a daughter named, Mestra.His hunger did not abate, so he did what any sociopathic hungry dad might, he sold her into slavery. Poseidon – a former lover – took pity on her and gave her a shape-shifting ability so she could escape.
But Erysichthon caught wind of this and sold her over and over again.And not just as a slave, but as anything someone wanted. Can you imagine someone being born into privilege conning people?
One night though, Mestra was late getting home and guess who ran out of food?
You guessed it, and by the next morning Erysichthon was gone as his unrelenting hunger had caused him to unleash his appetite on himself.
He ate a whole Erysichthona Casserole to himself and not a trace was left.Let me know what you think of our story and the raku pottery vase ‘Demeter’s Sacred Grove‘ in the comments!
And if you want to win a free raku pottery vase of your ownNASA Discovers New Planet
The NovaScotia Alchemical Society of Astroexploration (NASA) has confirmed the discovery of a new planet. More information about this planet will be released soon!
Raku Pottery Planet/SphereWishing all of you a wonderful weekend full of good things!
March 26, 2021
💫 🌠 TFW You Find Yourself On A Buddhacious Space Odyssey 🌠 💫
Intergalactic Buddha Pendant – $25Shipping Included in US and Canada
Each piece is individually made by hand here at The Alchemist’s StudioThey make great gifts and
shipping is included in the US and Canada!
Much more is available over on our
jewelry page – including other buddhas!
If you have questions about a particular piece of jewelry – or any of the work we do – please get in touch.
Trophy Wife
Her marriage.
Hera’s Heart –
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March 25, 2021
“I love pieces that are also conversation starters.” – Eavance Dave
Intergalactic Yoda Pendant – $28Shipping Included in US and Canada
They make great gifts and shipping is included in the US and Canada!
Tree of Life Pendant – $28 Shipping included in US and Canada
Much more is available over on our
jewelry page!
If you have questions about a particular piece of jewelry – or any of the work we do – please be sure to get in touch.
I’d Like To Give You A Free Vase!
The snow is finally receding and we are hitting double digit daytime temperatures. It truly is spring! Time for things to grow!
As I start to plant seed starts for the garden, my mind remembers something else I am trying to grow! Our pottery giveaway! But I can’t do this without your help!
Our ‘Great Pottery Giveaway’ items so far:
A Mug for your drinks!
A cute little turtle!Pssst! In case you haven’t heard, we’ve decided to do a ‘Great Pottery Giveaway’!And you can help us increase the prize pool. All you need to do is sign up for our newsletter here! As we gain subscribers we will be adding items to our giveaway basket, and at the end of the year, one of our subscribers will win the gift basket.
I’d like to add one of our signature raku pottery vases to the giveaway. And we are getting really close. All we need is an additional 36 12 9 people to sign up to our newsletter!
So do not hesitate, sign up today! The odds are better than the lottery, so tell your pottery loving friends and please share!
Thanks for your consideration and I hope you have a wonderful week!And let me know in the comments what colour of raku pottery vase you would be most interested in us including in this prize package!
🤜 Thursday Throwdown March 2021 🤛
It’s vase-to-vase combat like you have never seen before!
How it works: We share two vases and YOU vote which is your favourite! The winner will then move on to the next round to face another competitor!
Last time, Father of the Sea and Phoenix Reborn battled to the death! In a HUGE upset to a reigning champ, your vote has determined that
Phoenix Reborn –
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The Series so far 
Gorgeous Vases of No Contact Wrestling Vase Name
Gossip Girl
Phoenix Reborn
Pillar of Atlas
Evangeline
Ogopogo
Iris En Ciel
Original Twin
Kermit The Vase
Haring’s Dance
White Walker
Sobek’s Tears
Mount Olympus
Argus
Draupnir
Grandmother
Old Soul
Make It Work
Hope Rising In Springtime
The Eye Of Horus
The Eye of Balor
Electra
Mother of Dragons
Father of the Sea
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Father of the Sea – $124Shipping included in Canada and US
It’s not an easy childhood, when all the tongues in the known universe are wagging about who your father is. Fortunately for Oceanus, there were only a few beings at that time and some of them didn’t even have tongues.
Just imagine Chaos with a tongue!
However when your mother Gaia is making as many babies as possible, and your ‘father’ is an over worked single dad, something is likely to fall through the cracks.
And it may be you; and that crack may form a mighty river.If all that was not confusing enough, there where whispers among Oceanus’ parents, that maybe – in one of her more ‘fertile’ moods – his mother Gaia visited her omnigender parent Chaos.
In spite of all this, Oceanus knew enough to keep these whisperings hush hush. He did not want to rock the boat. There was already enough actual Chaos in the family.
15 Æons later . . .Oceanus often questioned his brother Cronus’ growing power. Rather than fight him, Cronus gave him dominion of the river at the end of the world.
Little did Cronus know that this would be the river from which all water would come. A fact which came in pretty handy when your name has Ocean right in it. He is not Riverus after all…
As you may remember from a previous story, Cronus would eventually depose his father Uranus, and take his throne. This would be short lived, for Uranus’ son would do the same. Then Cronus and his Titan siblings asked Uranus to participate in quashing the rebellion of young upstart Zeus.
Phew!Fortunately, Oceanus and his wife Tethys were busy making babies too – in total about 3,000! Unlike his official father, Oceanus was a good dad. In the end this would save him! For all of his others siblings would lose the war against the new gods of Olympus and rather than fighting, Oceanus spent his time quietly making more babies, new rivers and their river gods, and of course the nymphs.
In the end it was the original river that Oceanus was cast down to that would act as a buffer against Tarturus (hell) where all of his Titan rebel siblings would be imprisoned.
Oceanus and Tethys were just glad they heeded the advice of legendary 1990’s Soothsayers TBoz, Left Eye and Chilli.
Not chasing waterfalls and Tethys saved Oceanus from hell!
Madame Pele’s Flow – $124Shipping Included in Canada and US
‘Madame Pele’s Flow’ tells the tale of a sometimes beautiful goddess who was right at home in the flames of raku. Not only could she sometimes appear as a beautiful woman, but also a white dog, even an old woman, but also a lava flow.
I wonder what picture she used on her tinder profile, and how many of her suitors got burned!
After reading this story, I don’t think any of her suitors will be asking her to go dutch!
Madame Pele, or Tutu Pele, has become well known for her power, passion, beauty and jealousy over the years. It makes you wonder why someone would challenge her to a race.
You just know someone is going to go down in this, the original flame war.
It was time again for the ever popular and fun houla races!
A houla is a wooden sled that is used to slide down steep stone slopes. A certain skilled houla rider, Papalauahi, was renowned for his skills. Bored by mediocre competition, he and the other chiefs decided to challenge Pele to a race.
Much to the delight of Papalauahi, he coasted easily to victory in the race, much to the cheers and applause of the other chiefs and spectators.
But this was not to be a ‘cool’ running.
Hell hath no fury like a god scorned!
Papalauahi might have been a mighty chief who won the race, but the victory party would become the hottest even on the island. Madame Pele in her rage would release a great flow of red hot lava that would overwhelm many of the spectators and chiefs, proving the age old advice of don’t play with fire – or a volcano goddess!
We can still see traces of the momentous race that occurred in lower Puna. Where stone trees/pillars of the those consumed by lava still stand today.
I guess they won’t be winning races anytime soon . . . or at all.
Who will be your victor? Be sure to get your vote by adding it in a comment BELOW! Their fate is now in your hands!We will share the winner (and update from last Time) next month
