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The Prancing Pony Maker of ceramic items inspired by a life spent in rural and remote Australia (and a love of horses!) designed to spark joy ❤️

Love how this turned out 😍 unfortunately it shrank in its glaze firing more than I had allowed for and the tissue box do...
16/10/2026

Love how this turned out 😍 unfortunately it shrank in its glaze firing more than I had allowed for and the tissue box doesn’t fit under it! Not to worry, there is another solution and I’ll make the next one bigger!!

16/10/2026

‘Tis the season!

Look at my teef!!
16/10/2026

Look at my teef!!

A load of greenware doing its final drying out before being bisque fired. I don’t do a lot of sculptural work but it was...
10/10/2026

A load of greenware doing its final drying out before being bisque fired. I don’t do a lot of sculptural work but it was only a matter of time before a horse made an appearance and a couple of submerged water buffalo!

Safe to say this will have to be hand delivered…if it survives, drying, bisque firing, glazing, glaze firing and someone...
07/10/2026

Safe to say this will have to be hand delivered…if it survives, drying, bisque firing, glazing, glaze firing and someone wants it…it’s a process!

Continuing the wattle pattern but on a clock face!
05/10/2026

Continuing the wattle pattern but on a clock face!

Update on the piece I had to put aside before I threw it out…it made it through the glaze fire! There are some cracks in...
28/09/2026

Update on the piece I had to put aside before I threw it out…it made it through the glaze fire! There are some cracks in the white clay slip that I painted over the brown clay, but they are sealed by the clear glaze so happy days! It has lost its perfectly round shape, but that’s hand making for you!

Unloaded a glaze fire this morning with some cute results!
26/09/2026

Unloaded a glaze fire this morning with some cute results!

Some colouring in today of the colour changing clay - hopefully the colours I’ve added don’t get lost in the clay colour...
24/09/2026

Some colouring in today of the colour changing clay - hopefully the colours I’ve added don’t get lost in the clay colour once they undergo their final fire.

This piece took longer than it should have to decorate because I somehow really leaned into doing things in the wrong th...
18/09/2026

This piece took longer than it should have to decorate because I somehow really leaned into doing things in the wrong the sequence 😑 I’ve put it in the kiln - not because the kiln is about to go on, I just needed to be done with this stage of its being!

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