Here's lookin' at you

I can only stay serious for so long before these little guys start popping up in the studio!

They are salt-shakers with just one hole in the bottom, made from a design popularized in the states by Warren MacKenzie and described on Potter's Journal, the blog of Joe Bennion of Horseshoe Mountain Pottery in Spring City, Utah. Joe has great how-to-make-this photos on the blog.

Once the form is made, you can turn it into just about anything... I've had a whole menagerie of critters go out the door in the past month.

More critters lined up for the oven soon! (insert evil laugh here) Actually, they don't mind. They just cozy up for a little snooze, and are all bright and cheery when I open the oven doors the next day.

(here are a few prior to bisque)

They've been popular with studio visitors, and are an easy item for folks to take home. 

This little guy is going all the way back to Amsterdam with Caroline and Rob Knyper.

Thanks Caroline and Rob!