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Crescent Rose Pottery 🌛🌹🌜
@crescentrosepotter.bsky.social
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Whimsical and witchy ceramic artist transforming clay with fire into magical pottery ✨️

https://crescentrosepottery.myshopify.com/
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My favourite part about going to WV (aside from the lush greenery and mountains) is the Tudor's Biscuit World pit stop on the way home 🤤
A shot of my biscuit sandwich (the Dottie which has egg, cheese, and a hashbrown on) that I already started eating because it was too yummy not to. In the background, you can see the blurry logo of "Tudor's Biscuit World"
July 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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It's never too early for me to work on ornaments. I love making these skulls buddies all year round 💀🤘❤️‍🔥
A flat lay of in progress skull ornaments. The skulls are in two parts, with the bottom jaw being a separate piece. Most of these will be covered in a rainbow with underglaze
July 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I've been struggling to feel very social on social media, but I am still working on things in my studio 🥲❤️
A photo of one of my greenware shelves. The main focus is a curvy beige mug with vines of ivy carved into it. There are also other mugs behind it and a pile of skull magnets and ornaments in the bottom left corner.
June 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I was so caught up on updating my site that I forgot to update y'all here! There are still quite a few pieces available (like the candlestick holder, red splatter heart mug, and spoonrests). The bud vase already sold, but I love it too much not to include it here 🥹❤️
A view of the top-most layer of my recent kiln unloading. The shelf at the bottom of the photo holds spoon rests in shades of purples, blues, and beige. The shelf towards the top of the photo holds a couple mugs, 2 mushroom candlestick holders and a squiggly worm ring holder. A beautiful taper candle holder in various shades of blues with golden crystals all over. It's surrounded by red roses and sits on a slice of wood. A stack of two curvy mugs surrounded by red roses. Each mug has black hearts on a field of splattered red glaze. The handles have a thumbrest. A black spiderweb bud vase with a sprig of bittersweet nightshade (there is a cluster of purple flowers along with the leaves).
May 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Happy birthday to me! 🎉🎉🎉

(Alexa, play "Pity Party" by Melanie Martinez 🎶)
May 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Ahhh this was a perfect kiln firing 🥰

It's crazy seeing how much everything shrunk!
The top layer of my loaded kiln after everything has been fired. All the pieces have vibrant glazes ranging from reds, golds, greens, blues, and purples.
April 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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I can't wait to see them fired. 🥲
A view of the top-most layer of my loaded kiln. All the pieces are glazed but haven't been fired yet and colors are muted.
April 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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I'm pretty sure his name is William but for the longest time I would call him George.

Bonus cat video for those who came to check the comments:
April 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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The best part is that the OH ornaments will have "Hell Is Real" on them.
A spread of 9 OH shaped ornaments with the "Hell Is Real" text from the sign on them. This is before they were glaze fired so the gray will turn black.
April 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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I always try my best to use as much of my clay slab as I can, so while I didn't have enough room for another OH ornament, I *did* have enough clay for a skull 💀
A wareboard of freshly made black clay ornaments. All of the ornaments are shaped like Ohio and the cental most ornament is a skull with a separate part for a jaw
April 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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I am just about ready for a 3rd full bisque kiln load. I'll need to glaze everything and that will fit into 2-3 more kiln loads.

I have been putting in *work* 💪🔥
A view of my greenware shelf of pieces ready to go into the kiln for a bisque firing. The main focus is a cauldron planter with an attached flaming drip plate. There is a black spiderweb mug to the right, and in the background, there are tall stitched mugs.
April 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Aside from making (so many) stitched mugs, I've been making cauldrons like this piece that's going to be turned into a hanging planter 🌿🧙‍♀️

(Other cauldrons will become soup bowls or cups but this one will have holes in the bottom so that would be pretty terrible for holding any liquids lol)
A freshly thrown curvy, cauldron shaped buff clay pot that's going to be turned into a planter. It sits upon a black bat attached to a potter's wheel.
March 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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I have a feeling these are going to be *even more* popular this year 🙃
A spread of 9 Ohio shaped ornaments before they head into a glaze firing. Each ornament is a medium gray color in their bisque form and has "Hell Is Real" on them, with the H also appearing in red like the infamous sign you can see while driving in Ohio.
March 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Update to my bread journey: I used the right yeast (instant, not active dry lol), and my new loaf is *so fluffy*
A loaf of freshly baked bread on a cooling rack with two slices cut from the end (I couldn't resist trying some before it fully cooled 🙃)
March 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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I *mostly* followed the recipe, and I think she looks pretty good for my first time in a long time making bread from scratch ❤️
The end of a freshly baked loaf of bread is cut off the reveal the dense but fluffy interior. Apparently I should've listened to the recipe about the right type of yeast instead of using what I had on hand already 🙃
March 22, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Exciting news! I finally upgraded my signature stamp after 6 years. The new stamp fits on most of my pieces, but my pins/magnets will have my old signature since they're smaller 🌛🌹🌜
An imprint of my signature stamp in clay. It features a rose nestled in the crook of a crescent moon and my full name "Crescent Rose Pottery" is to the right of the moon/rose
March 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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2200° does some magical things to my pieces. I absolutely adore how this mug came out and can't wait to make more 🥹

I love seeing the before and after the kiln photos!
My left hand holding a glazed mug before placing it into the kiln (featured behind the mug) to be fired. The mug is curvy with a handle that has a thumb rest, and is decorated with black hearts surrounded by a field of pale red splatters on a white background. My left hand holding the mug I just pulled from the kiln in the background. The curvy mug feature a glossy white background with lots of red splatters and matte black hearts. ❤️🖤
March 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I took a time-lapse of the eclipse last night and it is now one of the coolest videos I have ever taken 🥹

I had to stop the video earlier than I wanted because it went behind the trees but still super cool to see the moon and stars rotate through the sky 🌝
March 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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My big gal lost her blooms, but my last orchid finally opened up a couple blooms, so I snapped this family photo 🥹

(Also, I love that I keep seeing the hashtag #bloomscrolling . It's so cute)
A cluster of small phalaenopsis orchids in my "desk jungle". The one on the left has yellow-ish/green blooms and a couple buds, the one in the top center has deep maroon and white blooms, and the one on the right has medium magenta blooms.
March 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I unloaded a bisque kiln load recently and didn't realize just how many shortie stitched mugs I had made.

Also it was nerve wracking stacking my mugs for this photo 😅
A precarious stacking of curvy stitched shortie mugs on the edge of my small Skutt kiln. These black and white mugs have only been bisque fired and still need glaze 🖤
March 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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While my kiln happily click-clacked away, I put bats on mugs. I haven't made these in a hot second but it's so good to come back to them 🦇🖤
My hand holds an in progress mug against a mainly white background. The mug is shaped kind of like a volcano and features a path of bats "flying" around the mug.
February 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Update: I finally got to eat the cornbread and it was *delicious*
A close-up look at the vegan cornbread I made where you can kind of see full chunks of corn peeking out. The cornbread is in a metal container.
February 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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I can't believe I've been making ivy mugs for almost 10 years. It's crazy to see how much I've improved since then 🥲
A set of four curvy mugs stacked in two pairs of two. Each mug has a thumbrest and ivy carved along the sides. The top left mug is a dark emerald green, the mug underneath it is a celadon green, the mug next to it is a mix of rusty oranges, and the mug above it is white with only the ivy vines in green. A screenshot of my Instagram post from November 15, 2016. It features one of the first emerald green ivy mugs I ever made A screenshot from my Instagram that I posted on October 28, 2016. It features my hand holding one of my first ivy mugs after I had just finished carving it.
February 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Took me a second but I found the "vase"
The "vase" that a teenage boy wanted to get fired. It almost looks like a cactus with the separate arm and a little removable bowl on the arm but it is definitely a bong 😂
February 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Went on a cute belated Valentine's date to the local conservatory and got to see *so many* orchids and butterflies 🥹
A closeup photo of a gray cracker butterfly with its wings open. The butterfly is resting on bright lime green leaves. A cluster of three off-white orchids with deep magenta spots and medium pink blushing. The curly petals look like if an orchid and a lily were combined into one flower. A malachite butterfly with its wings closed resting on a flower made up of tiny pink, yellow, and white colored flowers Two beautiful phalaenopsis orchids that are mostly white with deep magenta centers and the very center is yellow with tiny magenta dots
February 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM