Hand-thrown sensory milk jug

If your looking for a rustic farmhouse style milk jug she is your girl. I love her so much.

So there is this thing that happens in my encounters with people in craft fairs. The consumer – we will call her a made up name like Maggie because i don’t like calling people numbers or labels so we will give one of my encounters a confidential name. Maggie looked at my poser mug and watercolor mug that is POD – manufactured, polished, sleek, i.e the normal thing you would buy in stores. Then, she glanced over at the handmade pottery – rustic, uniquely shaped, with interesting colors of choice. she was so intrigued by the differences. We got chatting about the process and benefits to making your own pottery, how it can help heal and support your emotions inwardly. Not just pottery but painting, crafts, dance, music… Art in a whole. When you buy something handmade your not buying a trinket you’re buying hours of experimentation, emotions, failures, and a piece of the artist that made it. I love handmade items too much and they have so much character and expression. I can read the story of the artist from their work. It is poetry. It depends on the individual and although some people like the sleek, polished and modern manufactured designs my jug has a personality that I found in a state of play. Throwing all expectations out the window and just experimenting with the wheel, tools, carvings, shapes, and the mixing of glazes. It isn’t your usual but it’s much better being unusual. Art isn’t measured by perfection after all every eye creates it’s own beauty. Its worth is measured by the experience and enjoyment felt from creating it.