Pottery Throw down is BACK!

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Hello all GPTD fans the next series has been announced and will start on 8th January at 7:45. It’s a Sunday night and it’s on Channel 4 as usual.

Festive Pottery Throw Down is on Christmas Day too. James Fleet, Jamie Laing, Jenny Eclair and Sunetra Sarker are the celebrities taking part this year.

I'll be frank - I was thrilled that I could remember it myself.

I'm also at "that age".

I've put it in my diary.

It will be something to look forward to in the long waits between "Talk Like A Pirate" days.

(19th September, if you're wondering)

Today is apparently national Cherry Pie Day. It's also love your pet day. Tomorrow is not only Pancake day but sticky bun day. I can get on board with all of these😂

I can get on with all of these, especially as my pet is a pangolin.

As soon as they mentioned metal glazes , I thought to myself i would make a Pangolin not that i am very good at pottery, it just seemed the obvious choice.

I thought a snake of some kind. Maybe swallowing a goat, so I could show off my hand building skills if I had any, on its enormous belly.

You could make the horns poke it out of shape at the top, and two little back hooves and a goatly bottom sticking halfway out of its mouth to show your sculpting skills as well.

No need to thank me - I have a million brilliant ideas like this.

@Emotionalsupportviper - I can't think why you're not a competitor with your creative skills. 😉

I've often thought of applying @Maireas, even though I haven't touched a piece of clay since the Great "O" Level Snail Disaster of 1969 but it seems so unfair on the other competitors.

I admire your selflessness. I would also like you to make me a snail, @Emotionalsupportviper

My snail days are over . . . it is toooooo painful. 😭

I make snails out of blutac when bored in meetings .The skill is in getting expression into their little faces.

I started my pottery class tonight and LOVED it !! Omg it's so therapeutic! I made a pinch pot mug ! Needs firing and then I can paint and glaze it - making a plate using a mould next week . I'm addicted ! Cannot wait to go back !

My little mug is very rustic but first attempt at anything in clay !

I can't wait to paint and glaze it !

I loved the panda. Lois should have got potter of the week.

I liked the panda and the tiger - long way from my offerings

That’s fantastic @AnyaMarx ! Do you know what colours you will go for?

<nods in agreement>

Though I find that their little antenna can be very expressive, too. A strategically modelled "feeler" can speak volumes.

(There's probably a PhD waiting to be carried out in snail body language, if anyone out there is looking for a thesis).

Play-do is also an excellent medium.

That is gorgeous, Anya!

There is a rustic "mugness" to it which is really satisfying - and I love your little flowers. I'd have been thrilled to produce that - please post further pictures when it's fired, and then when it's painted and glazed. I feel like I am vicariously "potting" through you.

Just a thought - have you considered branching out into snails? 🐌

Ha!!! Thank you
Y friends are all laughing at my little mug ! The meanies !

I'm doing a plate next week - I was thinking of doing a little mouse and a price of cheese on it 😂. I could sneak a snail in 😂

Yay!

"Gatropods rule, OK"

(I love mice, too)

I always used to doodle snails at school - a friend and I made a whole flip book of a snail slowly climbing up a window and back down - plus I’m of the age that did Fimo modelling, so I made quite a few snails that way too. They were all called Brian.

Here's one I made earlier 😁

Love it!