OMG. I’m an English Teacher - there are a couple of hundred people out there who would love a Penguin series. The Flour one would make the best book end on a shelf, so many possibilities! My favourite video so far. You’ll struggle to stock enough in the Pottage for sure. You are such a well deserved success story. You go girl!
I have literally never been more GREEN WITH ENVY IN MY LIFE!!!😭😭😭 Those bad boys are COVETED and I can see why. I am so glad you got those, so happy to see you get such a gem of a mold.
Wow thank you! Yes I don’t actually know if I could make something better! They are just so glorious!! I’m hoping one day I can come across the tea canister and the lid for the flour jar! Maybe one day!
hi Shelby, the size range went from Bread/Cakes, Biscuits, Flour, Sugar, Coffee, Tea then your Salt and Pepper. i personally haven't seen this mould set since the 90s when a lady in the swan hill area had her own ceramics shop and painting group.
Hello! With the one that has a crack, you could just use a plastic container, even a cheap Rubbermaid - type, that could hold water so you can still use it for flowers!! Love all your "fabric" sides, SO cute!!! I'll bet you will be making many more of the small books, they will be fun to label for so many things!!!
I think a neat design for these would be making them look like spellbooks and maybe even using the gold luster on the words on the spine would be really pretty. I would love to have these in that kind of design for my own kitchen. Absolutely beautiful!
Welcome back! A though: use a copper pipe to make the holes so that they are always as consistent as you can make them, rather than carve them out by hand. You can get all sizes, cut some 3 inch long pieces and use them like cookie cutters to make the holes.
Those all came out so pretty! Maybe use dried flowers in the broken one? Or use another vessel to put inside it for fresh flowers? They're honestly all beautiful as just display :)
Yess that’s what I thought! The flour one that says ‘flour arranging’ makes so much more sense as a display than the others so I love that!! I just hope I can find the tea cannister down the line!
@@CaliAmandalyn1981 Flower bookmarks! You could have a whole bouquet of them! 😍 My debate would be, what kind of bookmarks? There are the typical paper ones, there are metal ones, resin ones... So many kinds of bookmarks. Gotta collect them all! 😂
I audibly gasped when you revealed the Jane Austen one. I would by a full collection like that. They are stunning. I hope you use dried flowers in the flour one, it will look fantastic in the Pottage. And I really hope to see more on the website. Maybe the little ones could be done as a paint your own set? So happy to see you back
I am so pleased with your book collection, they turned out so lovely. My favorite was the penguin edition of Persuasion. Not only is Jane Austen on of my favorite authors, but also my grandmother used to make a living from translating English into German after WWII. Her versions of several Austen books were published and reading them is like having my grandmother telling my the stories of my favorite author. 😊 All these book designs were so sweet and well done, that jar collection is something I would be hunting after to have at home.
These are stunning and I adore them! I think these molds would be great candidates for gold lustre. Details on the spine, the covers, maybe even some of the pages at the back, like old fancy books with gold on the outside. So delighted to see this series return, btw. I love that the Pottage has taken off for you, and have been happy to wait for the return of the series. You definitely came back with a bang!
We will always come back for this series! Love you work here! It reminds me of a medieval bud vase I saw in the Victoria and Albert. It was shaped like a book with holes in the top with flowers painted around it in gold. Love your design!
I am so so happy that the pottage is doing so well and that you’ve been busy with that, but gosh, I missed you and your videos! Thank you for squeezing this in to your schedule for us! Your videos really feel like such a treat 🥰
It's amazing that this video came out around the same time as the announcement from Lenox about releasing a version 2 of the spice village! Anyway, as a bookworm I am OBSESSED with these! especially the herb shakers, if I could have like 10 of those to design for my main herbs I would be so happy!
For a quick "fix" for putting flowers in find a glass jar that fits and place them in there, usually the jar remains unnoticed. Love the books, would definitely have a place in my collection!
Thank you!! Hehe the haircut was a bit scary because I had filmed so much content that I hadn’t finished but I thought you guys wouldn’t mind if my hair changed in each of the new videos hehe
I really want these in my kitchen. I do want them in a specific colour scheme to fit the style of my kitchen, so it’s so cool that these exist as moulds.
THIS is so cutE! For the spice village, the old ones will likely stay the same or go down a little in price. But thats likely because the high prices are likely collectors vs people that want to use them as regular kitchen decor. Because its historically valuable still. Assuming the new village will have a defining mark for the rerelese
Yes that’s what I’m thinking! Because the OGs are still the originals! I wonder whether they will make some changes to them or add extra spices and things! I’m so curious!!
I've never really done ceramics.. I recently inherited a number of ceramics from molds made and signed by my grandmother.. lovely to see the type of process she went through to make the pieces!! I'm so happy to keep them in my home for years to come
That little penguin book!!!! That'd be so cute as spice/herb jars, with herby book title puns (think like 'THYME goes by' and 'the book of SAGE advice' etc)!! 😍 I'm so happy you're back! I've missed your lovely videos on a weekend! Much love from the UK 😘
These are so cute!!! I think they would be great to keep absolutely anything in and you have loads of creative options with them! Please share if you do more of them.
I have been seeing 1940/50 style women’s heads/busts with hats that are flower pots! They are selling around 300.00 for the large set! I am glad your back doing video’s, but I hope you can take some down time to enjoy your success with the pottage! On the subject of the pottage I wish I was closer to you I would be there all the time creating! When I was a young teen in the mid 80’s my favorite time of the week was when my mom would take to me to paint ceramics with her! Your videos make me think of good times, so thank you!
Oh my goodness, what a way to mark your return to YT with the most spectacular set! 😍😍😍 so glad to hear everything is going so well with the Pottage. Hope you’re able to able a little more down time for some well deserved R&R. Loved this video and welcome back!
These are GORGEOUS!!! What a great find!! I was curious and searched online, the set (with the tea canister, but minus the shakers) is selling for $3800!! I love your channel! You are just such a ray of light and it is a joy to watch you create. Love from Labrador, Canada! 🇨🇦💗
Shelby, you could recreate the lid for the flour canister yourself. You have two examples, and you're definitely talented enough to make a mould for it.
Oh my!!!!! Those are all absolutely adorable. With the seed shakers an idea might be to not open up the small top holes and shake them out from the base hole instead. The lid less container would be great for a kitchen utensil holder, too. Gorgeous colours and patterns. ❤❤❤
What a cute collection! Fingers crossed that the flour lid will show up and possibly the tea canister. Love how you decorated them and such a great idea to make seed shakers.
Your artistic expression is so fun and your videos make me smile. I LOVE your artistry! It's been wonderful watching your journey through these molds. Thank you for creating this channel!
I am beyond happy to see you back on the platform with a book serie ! As a future bookseller I would love love love to offer a collection of these as vases or book ends. I feel as if your craftmanship refined with the years and your use of colors is sooooo delicious. I'm in love with this serie.
Never have I wished to be near you more than now! I would do whatever it took to attend the Pottage and make myself a set of these! Your designs turned out entirely too adorable! The idea of doing them up as actual books is perfect - it would be lovely to see a set of them where the book title actually incorporates the name of the spice/contents of the cannister.
Oh don't give up on the Flour vase. I'm sure you can find a clear sealant for the bottom. I do remember seeing the advertisements for that Lenox spice line. I didn't get any, young kids other things to buy. I've liked many of your pieces. But I think this is up there with my favourites. You a very cute design work on the covers.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌹📚
Oh I haven’t!! I just need to figure out a way to rescue it!! I think I could put a water tight sealant in there or a tub like someone else suggested! Thank you so much for the love!! You are so kind ❤❤
Oh MY! 😍 They’re gorgeous! And that blue pattern on the coffee canister! 🤯 Wow! Your haircut looks adorable too! Lovely to have you back. 😊 Hope you’re not drowning in work and everything is going well!
The shape of the cannisters with the front being smaller and the back being wider leads me to see them making a rounded shape when they're next to each other. It makes me think of them tucked back into a corner on your kitchen counters - in a spot that might be too deep for items that you need to get to often. These are stunning, Shelby. Well done!
I actually got teary eyed seeing these! My Mamaw had something very similar in her home and it made me think of her and how lucky i was to have her. I didn't have the greatest parents but I did have great grandparents. These are just lovely! My favorite so far.
I think it would be so cute if you made a spice series that were all different species of mushrooms. That would look ADORABLE on a wooden shelf. Very whimsical.
Shelby I LOVE this book set. You could also remove the titles and make it so whoever paints them could do their own titles or you could do a pre-order that would allow the customer to write in the titles they want and either you or a staff member could add the titles before it gets fired that way they could be used by different people in different situations like a teacher and the books could be different subjects. They could hold different types of materials a teacher might use like pens, pencils, clips, markers, stickers, labels for folders or tabs that are added to notebooks or a binder that has lessons for different parts of a unit, planners and grade books and many other things that they need to organize their materials. As a former teacher I would have loved having this in my classroom either on my desk or a bookcase next to my desk or area where I did assessments and various other tasks. They could be used in a home office or craft room sewing room. A writer or other professional could use it to hold office supplies or anything related to their work. You might even be able to modify a lid so one of them could hold tissues. The one without the lid could hold a small plant if you glazed the inside and possibly added drainage holes on the bottom and created a waterproof tray to the bottom to hold any excess water after watering your plant. With your skills and talent you could easily make one. They would also make cute cookie/candy/treat jars and you could customize it for whatever pets people have like cats, dogs, birds, etc... It would also look awesome to make some that look like vintage books such as classics like Jane Austin, LM Montgomery who wrote the Anne of Green Gables and a few other series of books. It would be really fun for someone who sews to hold their various supplies like pins, buttons, clips, special marking pens, and other tools like scissors, cutters, measuring tapes, quilting supplies or tools. There are so many different ideas on how you could use them or market them. When you got the call about the shed full of molds and such that the new property owner discovered you found a kilin in the shed at the time you said it looked almost in new condition, did it work or was it broken? I remember that you were excited about it when you discovered it while clearing out the shed. Whatever happened to it? Could it help you with firing the pieces done at the Pottage or in your studio?? I saw your post where you mentioned that you needed a larger kilin and that yours was having a hard time keeping up with the demand for firing new pieces and pieces after they were painted and glazed. Glad to have you back and seeing what you have been up to because I have missed your videos. So sorry that you have been dealing with the "influencer" who was creating drama and being rude over a mug. She clearly showed her ignorance on many different things in her comments and videos. It was very clear that she was trying to get attention and views and didn't care who she hurt in order to get what she wanted. Her behavior and actions/comments would definitely not make her parents proud of her and what she said and did. She was obviously ignorant of how large a following you have compared to her. It's terrifying to think that she is an example of the younger generation and how they treat/use others to make get attention or clout at the expense of other people and they don't care who they hurt along the way.
My mom has the entire House Lenox collection from the 90s. The collection also has two flower planters, the canisters, and the spice rack that comes with it too. It is my favorite in her kitchen ❤
What a fun find! Would your clients let you show their creations? It would be a fun and inspiring video to see a batch of the Pottage pieces. 😊 My nieces and their families took my sister and me to my own at a shop and we all painted pieces. Such a great day.
I reckon the gold luster on the book pages would look amazing also. I remember as a kid, having a couple books (1 was the bible) that had the gold page edges, and I loved flicking through them and watching the pages flash gold. I love this set! And I love that you drew inspiration from the vintage styles with the material/patterned covers.
Waaaay too cute! What a find. I love the designs you added but also, that you’re confident in your craft and tell us what parts of the finished design you yourself are happiest with once it’s out of the kiln. ❤️👍
Welcome back. I have missed you. I teach literature and I love your books. My favorite is the "block" print. I love your enthusiasm for this collection. You could put sesame seeds in your seeds book.❤❤❤
Love to see you back,you started with the most awesome collection.I love,love,love the books,I have never seen any like that before ,I want them for my home. I wish I was in your country,but I live in UK. Anyway they are beautiful and your designs are amazing.Thanks for sharing and glad you are back.
For the glazed over holes, I have had luck using a drill and normal (small) bit. I have a second person hold carefully while I drill. I love these by the way! Precious set!
Thank you for this suggestion!! Yes I think I might try it! It’s not the end of the world as the salt and pepper ones are fine! But the seed shaker ones are a little bit funky!
These are so cute!! My brother painted the coffee one at a paint your own pottery place, despite being about 12 and not drinking coffee. I didn't know there were other designs. The tiny ones are adorable, I'd totally have a tiny shelf of tiny ceramic books!
OMG. I’m an English Teacher - there are a couple of hundred people out there who would love a Penguin series. The Flour one would make the best book end on a shelf, so many possibilities! My favourite video so far. You’ll struggle to stock enough in the Pottage for sure. You are such a well deserved success story. You go girl!
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I would love to have those canister books ❤
The ceramic houses on the photo , where can I find them??
@@ykmusic1051 do u mean the lennox spice houses? i see them on facebook marketplace sometimes
Agreed. I’d love a set
I have literally never been more GREEN WITH ENVY IN MY LIFE!!!😭😭😭 Those bad boys are COVETED and I can see why. I am so glad you got those, so happy to see you get such a gem of a mold.
I'm a librarian and love that homey vintage aesthetic so I would actually lose my mind if I had something like this in my kitchen.
Me too❤
Graduating with my MLIS this fall and I want to buy these for myself as a graduation present.. lol
I’m a librarian too! I’d kill for these for the library and my kitchen
18:27 the penguin book looks incredible. You should create a full library with the blank ones. They’ll sell so fast
True❤
These may be my very favorite thing you have ever done in a video!!! They are wonderful and your designs are beautiful!!!
Wow thank you! Yes I don’t actually know if I could make something better! They are just so glorious!!
I’m hoping one day I can come across the tea canister and the lid for the flour jar! Maybe one day!
I agree!
I love❤the Persuasion/ Salt book!
I am, as a matter of fact, one of those people who sprinkles wildflower seeds from a shaker - and I’d absolutely love a ceramic shaker I could refill!
They turned out lovely, the largest canister , I would use it as a kitchen tool jar with the small ones on each side
Great idea!!!!
Yes! That would be perfect!
hi Shelby, the size range went from Bread/Cakes, Biscuits, Flour, Sugar, Coffee, Tea then your Salt and Pepper. i personally haven't seen this mould set since the 90s when a lady in the swan hill area had her own ceramics shop and painting group.
If anyone has any leads on anywhere to find this mould set, please share! I would absolutely sell my soul for this!
Yesss oh gosh I would love to finish this set 😅😅
Hello! With the one that has a crack, you could just use a plastic container, even a cheap Rubbermaid - type, that could hold water so you can still use it for flowers!!
Love all your "fabric" sides, SO cute!!! I'll bet you will be making many more of the small books, they will be fun to label for so many things!!!
That is so smart 😂 I wish I thought of that!! I think I might have to get one ❤
You could also use it as a plantar and the crack becomes a drainage hole.
@@gayledeacon2203 I thought that too. It seems small enough so the dirt would stay in.
I think a neat design for these would be making them look like spellbooks and maybe even using the gold luster on the words on the spine would be really pretty. I would love to have these in that kind of design for my own kitchen. Absolutely beautiful!
11:40 Holy crap! I've had that spice jar set for 30 years! I've never ever heard anyone mention it before!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Also, I would love to see some of these made for spooky season! They could have some Halloween themes with witchy recipes!
💜great idea!💜
I was thinking spell book as well 🖤
The blank mini books could also be the cutest little Posie holders or trinket holders, or a bookmark holder! If you cut off the top!
Yessss omg I didn’t show those in this video!! I made some up without the top so you can put flowers in them! They are actually out at The Pottage ❤
Welcome Back. Oh, how I've missed you Shelby!
I’ve missed you all too 😢 I missed having our lovely conversations about pottery and life together!
Me too...
Missed you much.
Welcome back! A though: use a copper pipe to make the holes so that they are always as consistent as you can make them, rather than carve them out by hand. You can get all sizes, cut some 3 inch long pieces and use them like cookie cutters to make the holes.
Love this! We actually have a bunch of hole cutters, that’s what I meant by inconsistency, sometimes our cut goes a bit wider or on an angle ❤
Those all came out so pretty! Maybe use dried flowers in the broken one? Or use another vessel to put inside it for fresh flowers? They're honestly all beautiful as just display :)
Yess that’s what I thought! The flour one that says ‘flour arranging’ makes so much more sense as a display than the others so I love that!! I just hope I can find the tea cannister down the line!
The books would be such a good vase to decorate a bookshelf omg
Also : first!
Yes omg! Like a big book end full of flowers!!! I love it so much
@@ShelbySherrittor bookmarks!!
@@CaliAmandalyn1981 Flower bookmarks! You could have a whole bouquet of them! 😍
My debate would be, what kind of bookmarks? There are the typical paper ones, there are metal ones, resin ones... So many kinds of bookmarks. Gotta collect them all! 😂
I audibly gasped when you revealed the Jane Austen one. I would by a full collection like that. They are stunning. I hope you use dried flowers in the flour one, it will look fantastic in the Pottage. And I really hope to see more on the website. Maybe the little ones could be done as a paint your own set? So happy to see you back
I am so pleased with your book collection, they turned out so lovely. My favorite was the penguin edition of Persuasion. Not only is Jane Austen on of my favorite authors, but also my grandmother used to make a living from translating English into German after WWII. Her versions of several Austen books were published and reading them is like having my grandmother telling my the stories of my favorite author. 😊
All these book designs were so sweet and well done, that jar collection is something I would be hunting after to have at home.
Oh my gosh, this is such a special story!! Thank you so much for sharing that with us and the connection you have with this piece ❤
Wow I love this series. My favourite bookcover is the blue coffee one. It looks like a quilt design to me.
You can put kitchen utensils in the one you wanted for flowers! Adorable!
If it is like most canister sets there should be a tea canister after the coffee one. Your decorations are always so sweet
Looked it up online and there is a tea one.
These are stunning and I adore them! I think these molds would be great candidates for gold lustre. Details on the spine, the covers, maybe even some of the pages at the back, like old fancy books with gold on the outside. So delighted to see this series return, btw. I love that the Pottage has taken off for you, and have been happy to wait for the return of the series. You definitely came back with a bang!
They're all absolutely adorable! Love the colors you chose. Seeds like poppies, pansies, and snap dragons are tiny like pepper flakes.
I would love to see a bookshelf collection of the mini book spice shakers with gold page edges! Epic!
So elegant 😊
We will always come back for this series! Love you work here! It reminds me of a medieval bud vase I saw in the Victoria and Albert. It was shaped like a book with holes in the top with flowers painted around it in gold. Love your design!
I would collect the heck out of those books! I would also totally paint them myself, so cute!!
I am so so happy that the pottage is doing so well and that you’ve been busy with that, but gosh, I missed you and your videos! Thank you for squeezing this in to your schedule for us! Your videos really feel like such a treat 🥰
It's amazing that this video came out around the same time as the announcement from Lenox about releasing a version 2 of the spice village! Anyway, as a bookworm I am OBSESSED with these! especially the herb shakers, if I could have like 10 of those to design for my main herbs I would be so happy!
For a quick "fix" for putting flowers in find a glass jar that fits and place them in there, usually the jar remains unnoticed. Love the books, would definitely have a place in my collection!
It's so great to have you back!! I hope the pottage is going well!!! You're looking great, I love the haircut!!
Thank you!! Hehe the haircut was a bit scary because I had filmed so much content that I hadn’t finished but I thought you guys wouldn’t mind if my hair changed in each of the new videos hehe
These are just the best!!!! I would love them in my kitchen! Especially as a row of penguin book, so cute!!!
I really want these in my kitchen. I do want them in a specific colour scheme to fit the style of my kitchen, so it’s so cool that these exist as moulds.
These are sooo adorable!!! Mia Maples needs these!!!
THIS is so cutE!
For the spice village, the old ones will likely stay the same or go down a little in price. But thats likely because the high prices are likely collectors vs people that want to use them as regular kitchen decor. Because its historically valuable still. Assuming the new village will have a defining mark for the rerelese
Yes that’s what I’m thinking! Because the OGs are still the originals! I wonder whether they will make some changes to them or add extra spices and things! I’m so curious!!
I'm so glad you're back. Your ceramic house is my Happy Place❤
I love this set. Beautiful 😍
Thank you ❤❤ I missed you all!! It’s nice being back!
I've never really done ceramics.. I recently inherited a number of ceramics from molds made and signed by my grandmother.. lovely to see the type of process she went through to make the pieces!! I'm so happy to keep them in my home for years to come
That little penguin book!!!! That'd be so cute as spice/herb jars, with herby book title puns (think like 'THYME goes by' and 'the book of SAGE advice' etc)!! 😍 I'm so happy you're back! I've missed your lovely videos on a weekend! Much love from the UK 😘
I'm a reader so I am in love with these books. You can do a dried flower arrangement in the flower one. 😊 Your kitty has really. Grown! So cute!
So glad to see you back at it. It's always a joy to watch what ideas you come up with.
The four pot even with crack would be good with a dried flower display in it too. They looked awesome Shelby
The paintjob on these pieces was soooo beautiful 😍😍
The blue on blue was my favorite!
As always Shelby you did amasing ❤👍
If that's what I'm thinking of this is massive for a mystery mould. My soul has been after for a set for years.
Huge!!! A mystery mould series!!
😮 Oh my God! I LOVE THE BOOKS!!!! The patterns are beautiful, the colours are amazing. 🥰
So fun !! Thanks for bringing the Mystery Molds back. And the Books are so cute!!!
These are so cute!!! I think they would be great to keep absolutely anything in and you have loads of creative options with them! Please share if you do more of them.
I've never wanted pottery canisters before, but now that I know that book sets are a possibility I somehow need it.
The cannisters are just adorable. I can imagine the small ones being very popular at The Pottage. I sure want some!
this is the cutest little collection! I've not seen anything like it before 😮
SHELBY VIDEO!!! Ahhh that's nice! You're so distinct. Warm, sunshiny, creative. *chef's kiss* I missed your videos
I have been seeing 1940/50 style women’s heads/busts with hats that are flower pots! They are selling around 300.00 for the large set! I am glad your back doing video’s, but I hope you can take some down time to enjoy your success with the pottage! On the subject of the pottage I wish I was closer to you I would be there all the time creating! When I was a young teen in the mid 80’s my favorite time of the week was when my mom would take to me to paint ceramics with her! Your videos make me think of good times, so thank you!
I love the idea of the seed shakers for native flower seeds. I'm sure a plant nursery would jump at the chance to collaborate with you.
Those ceramic books are beyond cute! And the way you painted them is perfect. How fun it must be to be an artist like you☺
Oh my goodness, what a way to mark your return to YT with the most spectacular set! 😍😍😍 so glad to hear everything is going so well with the Pottage. Hope you’re able to able a little more down time for some well deserved R&R.
Loved this video and welcome back!
I've never wished to buy pottery more in my life. ❤❤❤ I would buy every single one of these book canisters
My favourite mould so far. I love books and cookbooks in particular 📕📘📙📚
These are GORGEOUS!!! What a great find!!
I was curious and searched online, the set (with the tea canister, but minus the shakers) is selling for $3800!!
I love your channel! You are just such a ray of light and it is a joy to watch you create.
Love from Labrador, Canada! 🇨🇦💗
Love. Love. Love this canister series!
Me too ❤❤❤ I’m obsessed with it!
@@ShelbySherritt The Flour cannister can be used as a vase. Put another container inside it, full with water and flowers.
Shelby, you could recreate the lid for the flour canister yourself. You have two examples, and you're definitely talented enough to make a mould for it.
Definitely!! I think it will be there somewhere! If it’s not I’ll result to making my own! It seems simple enough hehe
@ShelbySherritt I hope you do.
Aw, kitty loves the pottery! Great collection and I love the little books! Always fun to watch you create amazing designs from plain clay!
Oh my!!!!! Those are all absolutely adorable. With the seed shakers an idea might be to not open up the small top holes and shake them out from the base hole instead. The lid less container would be great for a kitchen utensil holder, too. Gorgeous colours and patterns. ❤❤❤
What a cute collection! Fingers crossed that the flour lid will show up and possibly the tea canister. Love how you decorated them and such a great idea to make seed shakers.
Those moulds are Fantastic what a Find you painted / Designed them Beautiful 😍
Have a Good weekend 🥰
Your artistic expression is so fun and your videos make me smile. I LOVE your artistry! It's been wonderful watching your journey through these molds. Thank you for creating this channel!
Truly unique and the painting possibilities are endless!
I have missed your videos so much! Congrats on all of your professional success and bravo for finding the balance for your health and personal life.
Oh I LOVE these! They would be amazing on floating shelves in the kitchen, like a book shelf! I think doing a whole spice line would be amazing!
So happy that you are posting your pottery making it brings me so much joy and this artery work is so beautiful it’s giving me country vibes
I am beyond happy to see you back on the platform with a book serie ! As a future bookseller I would love love love to offer a collection of these as vases or book ends. I feel as if your craftmanship refined with the years and your use of colors is sooooo delicious. I'm in love with this serie.
Never have I wished to be near you more than now! I would do whatever it took to attend the Pottage and make myself a set of these! Your designs turned out entirely too adorable! The idea of doing them up as actual books is perfect - it would be lovely to see a set of them where the book title actually incorporates the name of the spice/contents of the cannister.
This is 100% my favorite thing you've ever made!
As a book and stationery nerd - this is my fave reveal! Loved that blue block print ✨
Oh don't give up on the Flour vase. I'm sure
you can find a clear sealant for the bottom.
I do remember seeing the advertisements
for that Lenox spice line. I didn't get any,
young kids other things to buy. I've liked many of your pieces. But I think this is up there with my favourites. You a very cute
design work on the covers.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌹📚
Oh I haven’t!! I just need to figure out a way to rescue it!! I think I could put a water tight sealant in there or a tub like someone else suggested!
Thank you so much for the love!! You are so kind ❤❤
Oh MY! 😍 They’re gorgeous! And that blue pattern on the coffee canister! 🤯 Wow!
Your haircut looks adorable too! Lovely to have you back. 😊 Hope you’re not drowning in work and everything is going well!
The shape of the cannisters with the front being smaller and the back being wider leads me to see them making a rounded shape when they're next to each other. It makes me think of them tucked back into a corner on your kitchen counters - in a spot that might be too deep for items that you need to get to often. These are stunning, Shelby. Well done!
The lidless flour one would be a fabulous utensil holder!
Omg the crispness of them patterns, the colours, the lil penguin cover, they're all so amazing!!
I just love theses. Books 📚 are so important to me.
These are adorable - as is your enthusiasm for bright colors and patterns. I love watching this!
Oh Shelby you are so talented!!! Everything is so creative and beautifully done. What an artist you are. ❤
Thank you ❤❤❤❤
I'm completely obsessed! They're so gorgeous.
I actually got teary eyed seeing these! My Mamaw had something very similar in her home and it made me think of her and how lucky i was to have her. I didn't have the greatest parents but I did have great grandparents.
These are just lovely! My favorite so far.
I think it would be so cute if you made a spice series that were all different species of mushrooms. That would look ADORABLE on a wooden shelf. Very whimsical.
Shelby I LOVE this book set. You could also remove the titles and make it so whoever paints them could do their own titles or you could do a pre-order that would allow the customer to write in the titles they want and either you or a staff member could add the titles before it gets fired that way they could be used by different people in different situations like a teacher and the books could be different subjects. They could hold different types of materials a teacher might use like pens, pencils, clips, markers, stickers, labels for folders or tabs that are added to notebooks or a binder that has lessons for different parts of a unit, planners and grade books and many other things that they need to organize their materials. As a former teacher I would have loved having this in my classroom either on my desk or a bookcase next to my desk or area where I did assessments and various other tasks. They could be used in a home office or craft room sewing room. A writer or other professional could use it to hold office supplies or anything related to their work. You might even be able to modify a lid so one of them could hold tissues. The one without the lid could hold a small plant if you glazed the inside and possibly added drainage holes on the bottom and created a waterproof tray to the bottom to hold any excess water after watering your plant. With your skills and talent you could easily make one. They would also make cute cookie/candy/treat jars and you could customize it for whatever pets people have like cats, dogs, birds, etc... It would also look awesome to make some that look like vintage books such as classics like Jane Austin, LM Montgomery who wrote the Anne of Green Gables and a few other series of books. It would be really fun for someone who sews to hold their various supplies like pins, buttons, clips, special marking pens, and other tools like scissors, cutters, measuring tapes, quilting supplies or tools. There are so many different ideas on how you could use them or market them.
When you got the call about the shed full of molds and such that the new property owner discovered you found a kilin in the shed at the time you said it looked almost in new condition, did it work or was it broken? I remember that you were excited about it when you discovered it while clearing out the shed. Whatever happened to it? Could it help you with firing the pieces done at the Pottage or in your studio?? I saw your post where you mentioned that you needed a larger kilin and that yours was having a hard time keeping up with the demand for firing new pieces and pieces after they were painted and glazed.
Glad to have you back and seeing what you have been up to because I have missed your videos. So sorry that you have been dealing with the "influencer" who was creating drama and being rude over a mug. She clearly showed her ignorance on many different things in her comments and videos. It was very clear that she was trying to get attention and views and didn't care who she hurt in order to get what she wanted. Her behavior and actions/comments would definitely not make her parents proud of her and what she said and did. She was obviously ignorant of how large a following you have compared to her. It's terrifying to think that she is an example of the younger generation and how they treat/use others to make get attention or clout at the expense of other people and they don't care who they hurt along the way.
My mom has the entire House Lenox collection from the 90s. The collection also has two flower planters, the canisters, and the spice rack that comes with it too. It is my favorite in her kitchen ❤
These are my absolute favourite pieces you have ever done
What a fun find!
Would your clients let you show their creations? It would be a fun and inspiring video to see a batch of the Pottage pieces. 😊
My nieces and their families took my sister and me to my own at a shop and we all painted pieces. Such a great day.
Oh absolutely! We actually share a lot of people’s works on The Pottage Instagram page!
The spice books would be so cute as single stem vases for tiny flowers too! Obsessed with your book cover designs! 😍
The Coffee of the World book?! 🤯 it’s beautifully perfect 😍
Welcome back Mystery Molds. Thank you!!!
Super cool!! Make a million- we all want a set! $$$
Absolutely fantastic - I’d love them in my kitchen
You and me both! I just hope I can eventually source the rest of the series!
I reckon the gold luster on the book pages would look amazing also. I remember as a kid, having a couple books (1 was the bible) that had the gold page edges, and I loved flicking through them and watching the pages flash gold. I love this set! And I love that you drew inspiration from the vintage styles with the material/patterned covers.
Oh my goodness, I love them so much! Those little books I'd love to buy bisque fired to paint myself 😍
Waaaay too cute! What a find. I love the designs you added but also, that you’re confident in your craft and tell us what parts of the finished design you yourself are happiest with once it’s out of the kiln. ❤️👍
Welcome back. I have missed you. I teach literature and I love your books. My favorite is the "block" print. I love your enthusiasm for this collection. You could put sesame seeds in your seeds book.❤❤❤
Love to see you back,you started with the most awesome collection.I love,love,love the books,I have never seen any like that before ,I want them for my home. I wish I was in your country,but I live in UK. Anyway they are beautiful and your designs are amazing.Thanks for sharing and glad you are back.
Hehe yes I don’t know how I could top this one! But I’m obsessed ❤❤❤
For the glazed over holes, I have had luck using a drill and normal (small) bit. I have a second person hold carefully while I drill. I love these by the way! Precious set!
Thank you for this suggestion!! Yes I think I might try it! It’s not the end of the world as the salt and pepper ones are fine! But the seed shaker ones are a little bit funky!
These are so cute!! My brother painted the coffee one at a paint your own pottery place, despite being about 12 and not drinking coffee. I didn't know there were other designs. The tiny ones are adorable, I'd totally have a tiny shelf of tiny ceramic books!
This is the best thing I’ve seen in such a long time! I’m a total book worm and need these in my life!