The Complete Home Potter

Introducing the ultimate sourcebook for the stylish home: Pottery Barn House & Home is filled with easy ideas for decorating, updating, and furnishing a cohesive, welcoming space. Whatever your style or budget, whether youre completely remodeling or simply refreshing one room, youll find inspiration and practical guidelines to make your home a special place to be.

A highly practical, accessible approach to creating bezutiful ceramics.

Pottery making and wheel throwing is a timeless craft, perfect for beginner crafters and artisans who don't mind getting their hands dirty. The Potter's Complete Studio Handbook is the perfect guide for all levels to enjoy and master the art of pottery. The book is a compilation of the best features from The Potter's Studio Handbook and The Potter's Studio Clay and Glaze Handbook, bringing the best of hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques together with comprehensive instruction for clays and glazes. Inside, you'll find: —expert tips and tricks for selecting and preparing your clay, constructing slab projects, throwing and centering clay on the wheel, firing your project to perfection —16 beautiful and functional projects with step-by-step photos using wheel-throwing, hand-building, and slipcasting techniques that can be done at home —more than 40 formulas for unique clays and glazes with instructions on how to use them plus troubleshooting tips from the experts —behind-the-scenes access to production and mining facilities . . . and much more!

Acclaimed potter Mary Fox, known for creating stunning gravity-defying decorative vessels as well as contemporary functional ware, tells the story of her life as an artist.

Working with clay is tremendously versatile, and this book brings a sound knowledge of the main ceramic methods to both the novice and the practising maker wanting to extend their approach to design and technique. Each chapter features a rich array of step-by-step explanations, brought to life with examples of contemporary work. Ideas range from a thrown cup and saucer, a hand-formed interpretation of the human figure, a press-moulded jug with sprigged decoration, and slipcast vessels with the distinctive crackled surface of raku. Accessible and inspiring, the book uncovers both the practical essentials and the creative secrets of working with clay.

Every event is magical when it's inspired by the imaginative Wizarding World of the Harry Potter films! Bursting with photography and sprinkled with behind-the-scenes film facts, this book offers step-by-step instructions on how to create, craft, and cater five unique Harry Potter-themed events. Packed with fun and unique crafts, recipes, and activities, this book includes complete blueprints for a colorful house-themed birthday party, mysterious magical creatures-themed Halloween party, glittering Yule Ball-inspired soiree, cozy movie marathon, and charming Harry Potter-inspired wedding reception. Each party includes a complete planning strategy, plus ideas, photos, and instructions for decorating your space, catering your buffet table, sending out invitations, creating favors, planning activities, and more.

Formulating, mixing, applying and firing clay boolies and glazes.