Paws that refreshes
Mar. 20th, 2015 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrWhile sorting pots and loading up the van, we discovered I was low on cat-handled mugs. Since I had a couple days before I had to fire my last bisque on this production run, I thought I'd do a few.
My animal-handled mugs are one of my oldest products, going back pre-painting-on-pottery. The critters started on my story tiles in graduate school, migrated onto the sides of mugs in my early Craft Center days. Initially I literally did story tile animals: cows, pigs, dogs. Added sheep as a request from a hand-weaver who also taught at the Center, added cats on a commission referred to me by another resident potter. The original cat mugs had a small mouse in the bottom, but he was a bugger to position, and it's more fun without, because with a full mug, it looks like the cat is paw-dipping in your beverage.
My animal-handled mugs are one of my oldest products, going back pre-painting-on-pottery. The critters started on my story tiles in graduate school, migrated onto the sides of mugs in my early Craft Center days. Initially I literally did story tile animals: cows, pigs, dogs. Added sheep as a request from a hand-weaver who also taught at the Center, added cats on a commission referred to me by another resident potter. The original cat mugs had a small mouse in the bottom, but he was a bugger to position, and it's more fun without, because with a full mug, it looks like the cat is paw-dipping in your beverage.