Saying Farewell To Another Mushroom Jar

 Alas! 

Another mushroom jar is off to its new home! 

It's strange, ever since I started posting my ceramic mushroom jars on my Etsy page, almost each one of them I send to a buyer in California...which makes me think that maybe I should slowly be making my way West... 

Anyways. This post will be short and sweet. It's really a goodbye letter to this little jar. 

When I first saw this particular ceramic jar come out of the kiln I was a little disheartened (that darn self-critic in me can be too critical sometimes) because I expected the colors of the underglazes to be brighter, more eye popping. I don't know. 

The light brown colors, of course, are also very delicate and beautiful in their own right, but I guess I was comparing what I had expected with the reality of the thing in front of me. 

But I try to put a little bit of myself in each of the things I make, and this ceramic jar was no exception, as I can see the part of me in the shape of the mushrooms, the strokes of the glaze, and even the crackling on the surface of the clay. 

Farewell mushroom jar and have fun hanging out in California! 

Love,

Worm Ceramics