'S Mugs!

Here are two more of my mugs from the 100 Mug Project. The mug on the left holds about 20 ounces. The mug on the right doesn't look much smaller, but it only holds about 16 ounces.

Sixteen ounces is about the right size for a coffee cup, I think. No, actually it is a little big, but I've taken to drinking half-caf coffee, so I think of two sixteen ounce mugs as really being two eight ounce mugs of coffee, if that makes any sense.

Now that I'm coming to the end of this project, I have to decide what my next "100" project is going to be. I'd like to do some shows with my calaveras this year, so maybe I'll do 100 calaveras.( Though the calaveras take much, much longer to make. They're so individual--and I want them to be--that I can't imagine cranking them out the way I've done with the mugs. It would rob them of their individuality--and me of the enjoyment of making them.) Anyway, I want to get back to handbuilding for the next project.

My foray into the world of throwing has lasted seven months and I've gotten to the point where I can throw a decent bowl and a decent mug, but the focus with throwing seems to be (for a handbuilding tourist like me) on function and speed. The function part I can understand, but the speed thing I've had to fight against. I'm not built for speed, as they say.

This giantess is one of Dave's mugs:



That's more of a stein, I think. It holds about four and a half cups, or just over 36 ounces. It's a Big Gulp with a handle!