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Oct 13, 2020
2 min

Sgraffito Fun!

Conference lessons continued: How cute is this? This was so much fun! This is a technique called sgraffito or in this case wet etching....

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Karen Goodwin

Oct 11, 2020
1 min

Birds of a Feather!

This fun Macaw project was one of the first from my virtual conference. I am not big on painting detail (I am more of a dip and drip...

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Karen Goodwin

Oct 10, 2020
2 min

Virtual Everything!

Well I will tell you that I never thought I would be attending ANY conference virtually let alone a ceramics conference!

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Upcycled Wine Bottles - Before and After!!

Karen Goodwin

Aug 7, 2020
2 min

Upcycled Wine Bottles - Before and After!!

When I am at shows, people often ask "how did you do that"? It is a wine bottle but melted? I thought I would share how the bottle...

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Karen Goodwin

Jul 29, 2020
1 min

PYOP meets Decoupage!

Not a Detail person… no Problem!

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Karen Goodwin

Jul 20, 2020
1 min

Gnome Mania!

I have been having so much fun making gnomes this summer. I first saw this little gnome in a post from a fellow PYOP studio and I fell...

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Beauty (and wine) comes in all shapes and sizes.

Karen Goodwin

Oct 16, 2017
2 min

Beauty (and wine) comes in all shapes and sizes.

Have you ever wondered about the significance of different shapes, colors and sizes of wine bottles? When I started melting wine bottles,...

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Karen Goodwin

Oct 16, 2017
1 min

Welcome to the SureFire Pottery Blog!!!

Hello and welcome to the blog! This will be a new adventure and I hope to learn and share a lot with you as I discover the online craft...

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