If you're in love with oceans, then you'll love this mug!
It's a hand made, wheel thrown pottery mug where i hand carved a Sand Dollar out of leather hard clay and attached it on to this marbled mug.

The Process:
Every one of my hand made pieces start out as a lump of raw clay....
This vessel was wheel thrown from a stoneware body of mug, wedged together into one single lump, trimmed, handled, designed (designing includes all the steps where I: add scales and or tails to mermaid mugs, unicorn horns, hand paint with a special glaze all the floral patterns, feathers, swirls etc]). Then the piece is set to dry for about a week or two, & fired to approximately 1830° F for about 18 hours, in a special ceramic oven called a kiln

Next when it comes back out of the kiln, it gets inspected to make sure its high quality, then hand painted with 3-5 coats of a special glaze that turns into liquid glass, this is what gives the mug a perfectly shiny coat after its fired again for the 2nd time to about 2230°F for another 23 hours!
The final step may involve retouching special areas with liquid gold and refiring it to 1200°F again...

there are over 15 steps each vessel has to go though before being listed here, i encourage you to visit my Instagram account to see all the steps in a special highlight called “Clay 101”

my heart and soul goes into each one of the items listed in my shop, and anywhere between 3-6 hours is invested on just ONE mug to make sure its perfect upon arrival to your new home ❤️

As always, every one of my pieces are made with the highest quality and devotion, they are,m hot or cold to the touch ...depending on what you put into it... so please be careful! (IT CAN GET REALLY HOT!)

*****if the mug has gold added to it, DO NOT MICROWAVE - its real gold (which is a metal!) and will not do well in a microwave 💥