Gallery

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The images below are previously sold pieces. If you see something you need, you can request a similar piece via the "Contact the Artist" page. Due to the creative and technical processes involved in hand-made pottery, there may be some variations in color, size and shape.

Everything I make is fired to cone 5, so it is vitrified, food-safe and can go in the microwave or dishwasher. Like store-bought pottery, only weirder.

Garden Mug - I occasionally make something with no eyeballs!

Kirk the Fishy Wall-Mounted Planter

Phineas the Octopus Wine Goblet who is missing a couple of legs because eight is way too many legs for a wine goblet, right?

Octopus Shot Glass Horde

Earl, the Mug who has Had Enough of This.

Snerdle the Yarn Bowl holds one large ball of yarn and dispenses it neatly from the nostril of your choice.

Maybelline the Incredibly Enthusiastic Candy Dish

Pablo the Octopus Bowl

Falco's Octopus Wine Goblet

Lloyd the Beer Stein
Lloyd is either a reasonably sized beer stein or an enormous coffee mug.

Gort the Many-Tentacled Mug holds over two cups of anything non-alcoholic - drunk people should not use this mug; too many tentacles.

Zothar the Lidded Jar has a few chips along his base, but he holds seven cups of cookies, which makes him perfect in my book.

Beholder Mug
Beware the Beholder! No, not really, he's just a mug.

Wanda the Squiddy Wind Chime

Muriel the Cephalopoddy Wall-Mounted Planter

Bob, Friend of Phineas.

Barb the Epic Candy Dish or Scrubby Sponge Holder

Urlburt and Hurlburt, matching peony vases.

Lulu the Lavender Fish Mug

Marge the Grumpy Mug

Louis the Candy Dish

Louise the Baby Octopus Mug

Otto the Pentapus Wine Goblet

Orangina
This crayon-orange bowl comes with a bonus lid.

Tentacled Yarn Bowl
Keep your yarn ball in place, untangled, and safe from marauding pirates.

Manatee
This glorious sea cow will protect your glasses while you sleep.

Merglor
Merglor is a 2-cup mug with many, many tentacles.

Bowls (set of four)
Nothing gets your day off to a good start than finding a weird little dude in the bottom of your cereal bowl.

Cthluis
Give your kitchen herb garden a creepily nautical flair with this lovely planter. There is a small drainage hole in the base to prevent over-watering, and tentacles to scare off the cat.

Robert
At 4.5 inches high, Robert the Tentacled Juice Mug holds about 1.5 cups of juice, M&Ms, paperclips, or whatever floats your boat.

Rosie
Rosie does not understand why you keep sticking a scrubby sponge into her mouth! How dare you!

Hortensia
This alien creature will keep your keys, spare change, or snacks safe and sound in his 5-inch-diameter maw. He stands about one inch off the table on his three stubby legs.

Loopy Bean Pot
This thing just came together unusually nicely: great lid fit, happy round shape, and a glaze combo that I will be using frequently.

All-Seeing Juice Mug
I don't even know what to say here. Makes me kinda happy, though.

Omar
Small, but mighty. And, of course, grumpy. I have struggled to replicate this glaze, which I love very much.

Seaweedy Bowl

Many tentacles (or possibly tendrils) sprout from the knees of this 5-cup serving bowl. I can't quite decide if it's animal or vegetable. The green-to-brown glaze is really pretty, but is just too danged shiny to photograph properly.

Betty

Betty is roomy blue frog to hold your kitchen sponge, plastic scrubby, bar of soap, or pens. Food safe and washable, in case you'd rather keep chocolate in it instead.

EchinoBowl

This six-cup serving bowl has starfish-like surface details that run up its arms and belly. The nice smoky purple color highlights the texture on the outer surface.

Moogl

Moogl will hold your kitchen sponge, bar of soap, or paperclips with panache. He has squat little eyestalks, gills, and spikes that run down his back to his stumpy little tail.

Pedro

This mug has little fins, a nicely varied glaze, and a look of fierce, if vague, determination.

Marvin

A commissioned grumpy mug!

Greg

Express your need for caffeine with this churlish, yet attractive, mug. Holds a generous 2 cups of joe.

Small Froggy

The Small Froggy is a slightly tight fit for a standard kitchen sponge, but he is perfect for a bar of soap or one of those round scrubby things. It's also great for holding your pens and pencils, or snacks.

Carl

Carl is a bright blue fish with a wavy rim, tiny fins, and a nice loopy handle.

Albert

This little guy is blue with a mauve interior and a one-cup capacity. He has interesting details like a swoopy handle and textured fins

Boomthwack

Boomthwack stands on his suckery little feet and awaits his snack of kitchen sponge, bar of soap, or rubber-band collection. His turquoise glaze and tiny bat wings only add to his rugged good looks

Jaws

This 1.5-cup mug is blue on the outside, mauve on the inside. Extra big teeth, extra big underbite, extra swoopy handle.

A Sponge Holder Named Zog

Zog has eyestalks and bat wings, and he will happily hold a kitchen sponge or a bar of soap for you.

Squelch

Squelch stands six inches high and his somewhat flattened oval body would be perfect for holding flowers or your taller office supplies. He is a dark, speckly blue with brown highlights.

Stan

You wouldn't know it to look at him, but Stan is actually quite a graceful swimmer. He can also hold two cups of coffee. I'm not actually sure about the swimming thing - he just tells everyone that.

Feesh IV

Lots of teeth, big eyes, 1.5-cup capacity. Feesh IV also has an extra loopy flourish at the end of his handle.

Kevin

My son has noted that an awful lot of my mugs are scowly, so here's Kevin to add a little cheer to the group. He only looks sinister if you stare too long.

Feesh III

This feesh has textured fins, a swoopy handle, and a 1.5-cup capacity.

Gary

Gary is a handsome fish with a very nice rippled effect in his green-and-brown glaze. He holds just over one cup.

Cuttlefish Mug
I really love this glaze. And his eyes.

Norma
Norma is a little ticked about not having arms, but hey, some people prefer a traditional mug handle, Norma.

Bob
Bob's tiny pupils and sharp pointy teeth are well suited to menacing small deep-sea fish or guarding your plants.

Grooper
Grooper's sizable mouth can hold a scrubby sponge for washing dishes, M&Ms for cubicle visitors, or Q-Tips for definitely NOT putting into your ears, EVER.

Zippy
Okay, I got a little carried away with the scrubby-sponge holders. They're so much fun, though.

Baby Octopus Wind Chime
This lovely-sounding little chime is three inches across, and, as a piece of pottery, should probably not be left out in gale-force winds.

Ursula
Ursula slithers menacingly across your table to deliver 2.5 cups of tasty cold beverage to you. Your powers are formidable, apparently.

Barney
One of a long line of grumpy mugs, perfect for warning coworkers/students that you haven't been fully caffeinated yet.

Bean Pot From SPAAAACE!
This is a smallish pot, with a four-cup capacity. From space.

Renaldo

Renaldo stands on six waving tentacles and has three eyes, so he can see in 3-D no matter which way he is facing. He has a two-cup capacity and would make an excellent drink tumbler, flower vase, or general holder of things.

RocketMug

Tubular feet and a fin-shaped handle give this comfy mug an old-school spaceship feel. Holds 1.5 cups. I could not be more pleased with the stripey glaze. It is understatedly colorful on the outside, with a sunshiny interior.

Todd

This disgruntled mug holds approximately 1.5 cups of coffee. He has a speckly glaze, transitioning to brown on the edges and slightly lavender where it pools (on his monobrow, for example). Todd is quite fetching, and he knows it.

Lorraine

Lorraine is a graceful three-cup bowl for your soup or side dish. She is actually a hexopus, because six tentacles are more stable than eight (on pottery, anyway; I can't speak for actual octopi.)

Suckerfoot Bowls

This set of six bowls is perfectly sized for cereal or salad. Each bowl stands on four suckery feet, like they're set to take off with your cheerios.

Morris

Morris has two arm/handles, two feet and a curly tail. His general attitude reflects your pre-coffee mindset. He holds 1.5 cups of joe.

Soup Pot from Spaaace!

Full disclosure: this pot wasn't sold. I claimed it for my own as soon as I took it out of the kiln. It turned out that nice.

RocketMug

Three afterburner feet and a fin-shaped handle make for an awesomely futuristic little mug.

Tentacultastic Mug

A leviathan rises from the inky deep of your coffee, suckery tentacles slithering over the sides of this mug. The mug holds just over one cup.

Walking Squiddy Bowl

This is a nice, stable serving bowl, even though it looks like he's trying to scuttle away with your nacho chips. Pale blueish-lavender outside, darker inside. Holds six cups.

Biff

Biff invites you to toss your keys, spare change, or bar of soap right into his toothy maw. He has strange tastes, but he's very handy. His stance is kind of like me on ice-skates: backside and hands on the floor, feet sticking out.

Bean Pot From Spaaaaace!

This lidded pot stands on three suckery feet and holds five cups of your favorite side dish in its belly. Also, my husband has discovered that if you waggle the lid up and down while talking in a funny voice, you can make me absolutely lose it.

Glornog, Lidded Pot of Neptune

Glornog comes from a distant planet to hold treats for you. His grumpy visage may discourage your coworkers from raiding your stash, but I make no guarantees.

Mortimer

Mort is a 5-cup serving bowl with a nice glaze that varies from green to dark brown. He also has an underbite and a vacuously alert stare, like most pugs I have known.

Tentacled Mug

This mug stands on three curly tentacles, plus an extra curly one for a handle. Holds two cups of coffee.

Feesh II

Big eyes, no teeth, 1.5-cup capacity. Simple and elegant, Mr. Feesh is.

David Bowie

David Bowie holds 1.75 cups, but is otherwise just what he looks like. One of his pupils is a bit bigger than the other. Like David Bowie's, you see.

Coral Cup

Thought I'd explore a different marine invertebrate for a change. Three branches of coral wrap around and over the rim of this small (1.5 cup) tumbler.

Walker, Texas Tumbler

This 2-cup tumbler moseys across the table on his many tentacles. And yes, that's an eyeball. It was a weird week.

Cephaloteapot

I'm pretty darned happy about this one: a fully functional, 4-cup teapot with suckery tentacles! Bonus, it's purple.

Creeple

Creeple is a bit broad to qualify as a tumbler. I'd call him a squat vase. But not to his face. Holds 2-1/2 cups.

Ned

"Wow, you are so right about that", Ned seems to be saying. Ned is a good confidence booster.

Burt

Burt is a tallish, 2-cup mug with strange little smoky details around his eyes, probably from irritation with Curt.

Curt

Curt's handle got a little out of hand. He has two teeth, a pleasantly vacant look, and a 1-1/2 cup capacity.

Olaf
Olaf is a mug with four feet and two tiny bat wings. He thinks he is scarier than he is.

Tentaculina

She may look a bit alarming, but she's really quite friendly.

Arglor

Arglor has oozed out of the murky swampland of his home planet to help deliver caffeine to you. His glaze is a bit drab, but he makes up for it with personality.

Myrna

Myrna is a planter! She is only 3-1/2 inches deep, so she fits on your kitchen windowsill, plus she has a handy little drainage hole in case you over-water your teeny, tiny herb garden.

Elmer

Elmer is another windowsill planter, with little fins and a narrower neck for taller plants. He is 4 inches high.

Quack

Not entirely sure why he's a duck, but he's a duck. He stands 4 inches high and 3-1/2 inches deep.

Lola

I think Lola has been affected by all the caffeine you've been drinking. Ease up there, cowboy, before her eyes get any buggier. She holds 1-1/2 cups of tasty, tasty decaf.

Paul

Paul is an amiable, 2-cup fellow who will hug your hands while you drink your warm soup or tea.

Elaine

Elaine can handle your less caffeine-fueled days; she holds just over one cup of coffee or tea. She's a reasonable gal.

Grupo

His fins are tiny, but his teeth are numerous.

Argle

Argle is displeased with whoever is trying to ask you questions before your second cup o' joe. He is also displeased that his nice curly mug handle is not visible in this shot.

Mavis

Mavis has a nice swoopy handle, which I can't show you here because I really like her head-on view a lot. She holds 1-1/2 cups.

Pebbly Cup

The Pebble Cup has a pebbly outer surface texture, with small pebbles meandering up the sides from its three pebbly feet. It's a theme. Holds 16 fl. oz.

Lou

Lou is quite comfortable with his spherical physique, thank you.

Goo

I have no idea what happened to Goo's description. It has disappeared into the internet.

3-Tentacled Bowl

Long, curly tentacles and elaborate detailing bring this otherwise simple bowl up to the next level (specifically, about an inch off the table). Holds 3 cups.

Hexatentacled Bowl

This 6-legged bowl has a gardeny feel, with vine-like details all around and a nice, wavy edge.

Luis

Luis is a fish mug who loves his job. He can hold nearly two cups of coffee, just for you.

Steve

Steve has a rather large and swirly tail for a smaller fish. But he wears it well.

Bowl of Consternation

This bowl is concerned you are not getting enough fruit and veggies. So fill him up and put him in a place of prominence!

Horace
Horace stands solidly on four feet as he demands that you give him a lot of coffee NOW. Luckily he has a mug handle and a three-cup capacity.

Norman

Norman has eaten a surfer, but he still has room for your double order of coffee. Holds 2 cups and has a handle in the back, as mugs tend to do.

Ribbet
Ribbet is a jaunty 2-cup mug with froggy feet and a swirly handle. He looks just a bit appalled at something.

Popcorn Bowl of Cthulhu
A bit too big for cereal but far too small for gruesome human remains, this four-cup bowl is perfect for holding your popcorn while you watch a horror movie. Dark brown, with many short tentacles and reddish eyeballs.

Clarence
Clarence has two teeth and an awesomely swirly tail, and is especially fond of holding flowers or incense sticks.
7"Hx4"Wx4"D; 1-1/2 cup capacity

Octopot
The glaze on this thin and matte,so while it is food safe, it's not easy to clean. In other words: good for grapes, not for cheese dip.

Cephalomug
Your basic coffee mug with tentacles. Most of my tentacled mugs are actually very stable, but this one is slightly more precarious than average. So keep it away from small children and drunken adults.

Tumbler of the Inky Deep
This roomy, 3-1/2-cup tumbler/vase is covered in tangled tentacles and a nicely varied seaweedy-green glaze.

Green Angler Fish
A nice big 2-1/2 cup mug with teeth and fins.

Harumph
A 3-1/2-cup tumbler named for the noise you know he would be making if he could.

Anemone II
A barnacled, tentacled goblet of almost zero utility.

Echinodermbler
A tall, unassuming tumbler, until you tip it up to chug your tea and HEY! STARFISH! It holds two cups of your favorite cold beverage.

Octobowl
This 3-cup serving bowl has eight tentacles complete with suckers and a beak underneath. A BEAK, people. Don't mess with an octopus.

Grumpy Mug, Jr.
Fine, he says. Have your frickin' coffee. I've got a handle.

Snotgoblet
The Snotgoblet holds two-thirds of a cup, for a nice cordial or a massive jello shot. Named for its fortuitous combination of drippy alterations and an... interesting green glaze.

Murgthwap
Nicely balanced on his many tentacles, Murgthwap watches you admiringly with his many eyeballs. Holds one cup o' joe.

Grapthar
Yep, that's what he looks like. One eye, looking for his hammer. Holds a mighty two cups of coffee.

Angler Fish
The Angler has some lovely dark blue and brown variations within its glaze. It also has a "lure", which will necessitate hand-washing. Holds one and a half cups of coffee for moderate caffeine addicts.

Garden Mug
The altered rim, carved base, and three petal-like feet on this one-cup mug give it a graceful, floral air rarely seen in my work.

Anemone I
This eight-inch-high vessel has two rows of spiky bits all around the rim, so don't stick your hand in without due caution. Makes a lovely flower vase, though!

Footed Flower Vase
This fellow stands over eight inches high, including his four stubby feet. He has an especially nice glaze.