A few Saturdays ago, I met a group of women at a paint-your-own-pottery shop in Germantown, Paint A Piece.
I've visited shops like this, mostly in SeaSide. You pick your ceramic piece and paint it. Pretty simple. The nice thing is that the shop has all the paints, and they fire the pieces in the kiln for you.
Last year in SeaSide, I wanted to make a ring holder, but they didn't have the piece. I don't know if you think about a ring holder a lot, but I do. I always think how I would use one by my sink so that I could put my ring and small jewelry on it while I'm washing my hands/face/etc.
Paint A Piece did have a ring holder, so I was all over it!
I decided to try one of their pottery glazes. It paints on a totally different color than it fires in the kiln. The nice thing is that they have some built-in textures and colors. I chose the glaze called Robin's Egg. We have brown and blues in our master bedroom, and I thought the ring holder would fit in well in our bathroom...next to my sink.
This is what it looked like when I finished it at the shop:
Questionable I know. The white inner ring you see if a white treatment that I was told could lighten the area you put it on but the other glaze color would remain.
My ring holder was ready in just a few days, and it looked like this!
Can you believe it? I'm really happy with it, and I find the pottery glaze amazing. How did it transform so completely? You can see the lighten inner ring too, which I'm really happy with.
I also did the bottom because you have to cover the entire piece with the glaze, and I added an A initial with the year.
I had a fun time at the shop, and I'm really happy with the results. I could see doing this again!
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