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I have been throwing for more years than I care to admit. I have gone back and forth between eathenware and stoneware, and am currently working with stoneware clay. As a clay, it is extraordinarily forgiving, and I have found, pretty easy for even beginners to make something nice.
The attached video shows me throwing an oil lamp. I first started making these in college. The inside piece you can fill with lamp oil, and around the outside, you can make a ring of oasis and add flowers and a glass chimney. It makes a stunning table centerpiece. Because I have been working with earthenware, pretty much exclusively for the last decade, I have not been able to make one of these. The oil slowly leaks from the porous earthenware clay. In college, graduation weekend, I realized I needed cash for gas to drive home. Most likely I had drunk most of my budget with days still to go. Being ever resourceful, I took my oil lamps decorated with locally picked flowers, to a local restaurant and sold them, providing enough cash to get home. What I didn’t realize, until years later, was I had filled the rings with apple blossoms, which, when I dropped them off were gorgeous…but, apple blossoms don’t last as a picked flower. I always figured that was one of those karma things that would come back to get me.
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