Christmas pots

I've been sitting on these pictures of my lastest work because they were all Christmas gifts or birthday gifts.

This is a colander I made for my brother and his wife. It looks fine in the picture but in real life it didn't turn out at all like I wanted so I'll be remaking it...

This colander was for my sister for her birthday. That's not trick photography, it truly is that warped. Something that has me a bit perplexed. But the glaze turned out nice. Love that spray booth.

Two mugs for Jason and Jess. I was really happy with how the glaze came out on these.



Two mugs for my sister and her husband. Again the glaze turned out great. Up close you can pick up a real deep blue on top of the black.

Two mugs for my parents. Again, great results.



And these mugs are for my father-in-law. Allow me to explain the one on the right. Several weeks ago my FIL was admiring the mugs I made for my Grandma and Aunt (in the mail soon, this week probably!) and my comedian husband made a smart remark about how his father's nose was too big for those mugs, that it would be dipping into his coffee (interesting as Adrian has his father's nose... but that's beside the point, apparently). So Adrian came to me wanting a nose mug for his dad, where his nose would rest comfortable on the outside of the lip. With a deep sigh, I agreed. However due to the shrinkage that happens between making the mug and the final fired piece I had to totally guess on the size to make it, hoping what I ended up with was a good fit. And boy is it ever.
To demonstrate...