I was asked today to photograph some of my favourite tools....and found the peeler that I have been hunting for in the kitchen!!
What tools do you use "out of place"?
I look in the kitchenalia corner of antiques and charity shops...I adapt other things to suit and find textures...
I'm not sure where the orange thing came from...other textures can be from netting or the polystyrene disc under a frozen pizza...
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Hey, use whatever works! I used a garlic press to make the "wool" on a butter lamb once!
Quite tragically, I can only think of an old toothbrush becoming a grout scrubber. Sounds so very dull. I use a dustpan for cleaning the chicken coop, but it is a dedicated dustpan, bought specifically for that purpose.
It pays to be inventive.
Surely the orange thing is to assist in opening lids n jamjars.
I like using lace and cookie cutters if I need 'shapes' for clay.
I no longer have any of my pottery tools. I wish I'd saved them, though I never got advanced enough to experiment with textures!
Tools are all important and often have multiple uses.
At the end of the growing season, I use a bungie cord to tie around wide bushy shrubs/ornamental grasses and then cut the plant at the ground level. The bungie cord stays tight and with one cut, I can lift away the entire plant in one go. Carrying it to the burn pile or recycle bin is easy.
For raking and removing debris (leaves, pine needles, acorns) I lay a tarp on the ground and rake everything into the tarp. The tarp can easily be dragged to the compost or burn pile and emptied. The tarp carries much more than the wheelbarrow and makes a more efficient (faster) cleanup.
that is a well organised job!! and all the better for doing that
but this is the thing about working with clay, you can use anything to do tbe job. Often enough things sold as pottery tools aren't up to the job!!
it could well be that.. I use it as padding when I sit at the wheel as well!!
it certainly does
toothbrushes are versatile!!
easier to clean than a sieve or tea strainer
My potting friend Bronwyn has a very similar eclectic collection of cutting and embossing tools. It seems you guys see the world through goggles that amplify textures.
Interesting... the name is usually spelled. Bronwen with an e, y usually being a masculine name.
The only Bronwyn I know also works in clay, mainly tiles, and lived in Bath last time I heard, although originally from Gwynedd in Wales
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