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mossy mossy studio (she/her)

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(connie) casual art from portland 🌲 ✨ making pottery at nolaclaypdx.com 🌸 and ikebana with oharaoregon.org

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Jan 25

Hi, I’m Connie! Thought I’d start here with an intro: I like to make things for fun, and will use this account mostly to share pictures and videos of the things I make 😊

Smiling woman in yellow raincoat holding a rainbow umbrella in front of a field of yellow tulips

mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · 2d

New mug! This glaze texture is so satisfying 🤩

#pottery #ceramics #mugshotmonday

A light purple mug with white flowers left unglazed

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · 15d

Oh, this was in response to the “even if you half-ass it” bit, not disparaging Easter eggs! I just wanted you to know that short alt-text is allowed and not necessarily half-ass-y 😊 but I frequently read the alt-text and appreciate an Easter egg 🌟

mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · 15d

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · 15d

It’s a different species (the grocery store ones are Diospyros kaki)! Apparently there are D. virginiana that look like tiny Hachiya/acorn persimmons too, but I’ve yet to see that kind in the wild 🌱

mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · 15d

Itty bitty American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) I plucked on a walk the other day, vs. Fuyu persimmon from the grocery store — look how cute and perfect and little, it’s like the grocery store persimmon has a mini-me 🥹 I am such a sucker for tiny things.

A hand holding a fuyu persimmon (about the size of an apple) next to an American persimmon which is identically-shaped but way smaller (the size of a jumbo blueberry)

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · 17d

Ikebana class is back 🌟
All of these materials are from my front yard, so this is almost like a little snapshot of early October in Portland ☺️ I love using my peony leaves this time of year!

#ikebana #oharaikebana #autumn

A “slanting moribana” Japanese flower arrangement featuring peony leaves, Douglas aster, and hydrangea, all of which are turning color for fall. The plants are in a low brown container, and the arrangement has the overall feel of a bit of landscape starting to die back for the winder.

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Sep 19

Thank you! I have such a hard time figuring out how to glaze this clay — I think it looks really nice bare but tend to have glaze ideas that involve covering most of the piece 🙈

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you! It’s definitely a technique I want to keep playing with 😄

mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Sep 9

Glaze experiment before and after 😄
I did this one by pulling up 4 glazes in one 50ml syringe, wetting the plate to slow absorption, then emptying the syringe onto the plate and swirling it around like an acrylic pour painting. I think it turned out neat!

#pottery #ceramics #glazetest

Bisqued ceramic plate before glaze fire. The glaze looks like a marbled grey/white surface

The same plate after glaze fire. The glaze is white, green, and brown with both matte and shiny spots, and some shiny bronze speckles where the glazes interacted.

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Sep 8

Newest mug, and maybe my favorite yet ☺️
The apple is painted with Mayco Stroke n’ Coat 🎨

#pottery #ceramics #mugshotmonday

Handmade ceramic mug, in brown clay with white glaze and a detailed painting of an apple.

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Aug 24

I’ve used bisque fix on porcelain, but only on actual bisque — I try to avoid bisque fix when I can because it doesn’t hold onto glaze as well as clay does, so sometimes it creates a glaze defect (just FYI). Plus, porcelain absorbs water so fast that I find slip is glue-y enough on greenware!

mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Aug 24

Those look so well-attached! And lovely handle shapes and thicknesses too 💕
I’m so surprised you’re having issues — is it cracking? You could try using thick slip, letting the slip glob out of the seams initially, and waiting for it to dry and shrink back a bit before cleaning the join up.

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Aug 22

My two favorites from the last batch of glaze tests — a new wax resist pattern, and some neat crystally glaze interaction from Mayco Himalayan Salt, Black Walnut, and Green Tea 💕

A small ceramic bowl glazed with a matte pink base coat with mottled patches of green/brown on top

A small ceramic bowl glazed black, with daisy shaped spots left bare, exposing white clay underneath

mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Aug 18

Last class’s ikebana arrangement (and the last one for a while probably!)
It’s another slanting moribana, with snowberry, pompom dahlia, and pink lace flower 🌼

#ikebana #oharaikebana

A flower arrangement in a low white bowl. Two round yellow dahlias are front and center, with green leafy snowberry branches arching out to the right, and some delicate pink laceflower in the middle.

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Aug 12

Social media vs. real life 😂

No idea how this cup turned out SO warped, but I’m happy with how my little stroke n’ coat experiment turned out on the rainier cherries!

#pottery #ceramics

mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Aug 9

It is! It’s the “patchwork singlet” from that book (but cropped a bit and with a different quilt pattern) ✨

mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Aug 3

Thank you!! I just used every green-adjacent linen scrap I had pretty much 😂

mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Aug 3

The pattern for this top is from Birgitta Helmersson’s zero waste pattern book! I 💖 zero waste sewing 😄

www.birgittahelmersson.com

Birgitta Helmersson Zero Waste Garments and Sewing Patterns

Garments made using zero waste pattern cutting from natural and re-purposed fabrics. All garments are made in-house in our studio/store in Malmö Sweden. Our designs are also available as PDF sewing pa...

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Aug 3

Finished my sewing project just in time for the Thorns game this morning! Bummed about the loss, but on the other hand — that Croix/Trinity masterpiece?? Nah you deserved that one Spirit, we’ll take the next one 🤷🏻‍♀️
#BAONPDX #thatsthespirit

The front of a homemade cropped tank top. It’s made with scraps of fabric in muted white, reds, and greens, and has the emblem of the Portland Thorns in the center.

The back of the homemade top, with a similar quilt-inspired pattern

A selfie of me wearing the top from the previous two photos

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Aug 1

Arrangement from class today with materials from my yard — actually I brought a third material as well but didn’t end up using it! I like that my hydrangea has flowerheads in a bunch of different stages right now (new, full bloom, fading…) and wanted to really showcase that ☺️

#ikebana #oharaikebana

Slanting moribana flower arrangement in a round celadon container. Branches of the red alder tree are used as subject and secondary, with green cones and pollen cones. Blue lacecap hydrangea is used as the object and shown in 3 different stages of life.

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Jul 26

Thank you Anne-Marie! 🥰

mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Jul 26

A slanting moribana from ikebana class today — I always have a hard time with this style! I think I’m getting better at it though 😅

Climbing rose and hosta leaves (from my yard) and feverfew (from the grocery store 😂)

#ikebana #oharaikebana #flowers

Flower arrangement in a low celadon container. A rose branch with magenta roses leans out to the right side, balanced by some low green and white hosta leaves on the left. A grouping of sweet feverfew daisies sits in the middle.

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Jul 24

So delightful 🥹🥹

mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Jul 24

Looooove this teapot that just came out of the kiln 😍 I found the branch I’m using as the handle on a beach in Japan earlier this year, and made the teapot especially to suit it 🥰

The teapot is thrown, but altered in a kurinuki-inspired way!

#ceramic #pottery #teapot

Ceramic teapot, white glaze with green speckles on brown clay. It looks rugged like a rock and has a branch as a handle going across the top

The same ceramic teapot from more of a top-down angle

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mossy mossy studio (she/her) @mossymossystudio.bsky.social · Jul 19

Hahah no problem — I only knew because I was thinking the same the other day and looked it up 😂

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