Tia Made

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Faith,Hope,Love...&the greatest of these is Love (1Cor 13:13) I free-hand carved the cursive lettering and created the "bevel-edging" by utilizing a bead reamer. The original height of the pot was 2-3" higher but in the decorating processes and it being picked up as green-ware the edges literally and sickeningly snapped off chunks at a time : ( 1Cor 13:13 This mis-shapened heart was originally much like the "LOVE" word above...while carving it out, the green-ware gave  way and snapped off TWICE : (  The designs are all my own. I quite literally doodled these interior hearts while sitting at the kitchen table while our son was doing his homework and I was filling the time between beseechings of "Help Me Please,Mama!" Thanks for looking! Please take care and God bless!!! : ) \

I threw this pot with nothing particular in mind for the decorating...this sort of just popped into my head, as do most of my creations...I can envision them and then try to replicate what's in my "Mind's Eye" 
I free-handed the carving of the hearts with the cursive words... this is MY OWN DESIGN.. it was nearing Valentine's Day  and LOVE was on the brain : )
I painted this with underglazes on a green, leather-hard, low grog, Miller 80? clay...
I didn't glaze the outside as I was trepidacious that the colors might run and ruin the precise lines and cursive wording...
I ABSOLUTELY DETEST how the interior red glazing came out..oh well...can't win them all, I guess...
Unbeknownst to me at the time when I carved the hearts around the base, there are 13 of them ...
The quote is from 1Corinthians 13:13... wild, huh???
The Lord works in mysterious ways ;  )
Thanks 4 looking!!! Take care and God bless, tia : )