Easy Homemade Pottery: Make Your Own Stylish Decor Using Polymer and Air-Dry Clay

by Francesca Stone

Overview

Planters, Vases, Dishes and More, Without a Pottery Studio!

You’ll be amazed by what you can create with polymer and air-dry clay. These affordable, easy-to-find clays present endless possibilities for artisan-quality home decor and gifts. Francesca Stone, creator of the decor blog Fall For DIY, presents simple step-by-step techniques for shaping and decorating clay with just a few household tools. All final pieces can be air-dried or baked in a standard home oven. Featuring a gorgeous, modern palette of natural colors, these projects are deceptively easy and effortlessly chic.

Personalize your home with practical and beautiful items like the Terra-Cotta Jewelry Dish, Hanging Herb Garden Planter and Salt-and-Pepper Pinch Pot. Get creative with color and geometric shapes in home accents such as the Color-Block Photo Holder and Abstract Floral Block Platter. This book is the perfect primer to start making beautiful clay pieces at home and get that handmade ceramic look without the expenses and challenges of traditional pottery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781645671510
Publisher:	Page Street Publishing
Publication date:	01/19/2021
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	248 MB
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About the Author

Francesca Stone is the creator of the blog Fall For DIY. Her work has been featured in print and online publications including Elle Decoration, Design*Sponge, Mollie Makes, Domino and Apartment Therapy. She lives in Birmingham, England.

Editorial Reviews

12/07/2020

Kiln-firing isn’t the only way to create pottery, advises blogger Stone in this encouraging debut, a guide to craft decor in any space. Stone writes that many crafters who work with clay are confronted with issues of space, time, and expense; it can be difficult to set up a pottery studio, and firing clay in a kiln is expensive. In response, Stone offers 50 projects that use polymer and air-dray clay and are small enough to fit into any home oven for finishing. The author starts with a list of necessary products and tools (“Popsicle sticks make great smoothing and blending tools,” she writes, as do old makeup sponges) and an overview of basic techniques such as rolling, shaping, smoothing, and joining. The projects range in difficulty—a “Stone-Effect Spoon Holder” is fun and easy, the “Wall Hanging Pocket Planter” is for intermediate crafters, and there’s a more advanced “Snail Mail Letter Holder.” Throughout, Stone urges crafters to experiment and not to despair when they inevitably make mistakes. New and experienced crafters looking to create pottery at home will want to give these projects a look. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly

This is a beautiful book, full of inspirational projects for the home that prove you don’t need a kiln, a potter’s wheel or hours of practice to create stunning pottery. Fran has filled this book to the brim with modern and creative ideas.”
—Teri Muncey, creator of The Lovely Drawer

“This book is filled with page after page of cleverly constructed projects that take the simplest of materials to the next level. I would happily display (and make) any one of these projects for my home.”
—Brittni Mehlhoff, founder of Paper and Stitch

“An absolute bookshelf must-have for any creative!”
—Rachel Mae Smith, creator of The Crafted Life and author of Hello Color

From the Publisher

11/20/2020

Stone's first book explores pottery making using air-dry and polymer clay. Unlike working with traditional clay, hand-building or on a wheel, polymer clay requires less time and space, and no expensive outlay for tools and equipment. Crafters can use a home oven and other tools that can easily be found in the house. Forty projects are covered step by step. These attractive and creative pieces are suitable for crafters with little or no experience making ceramics. The techniques are basic to pottery making, and are simple to follow and reproduce. The featured projects cover a wide array of functional and decorative pieces including planters, bookends, incense holders, and jewelry or soap holders. Many items would be suitable to make as gifts, and a number would be appropriate for supervised children to try. VERDICT Stone gives good coverage of a fun new medium to explore, especially as people spend more time at home. This book will appeal to a wide audience of clay artists, both beginning and more experienced. It is a good basic, instructional resource.—Deborah A. Broocker, Georgia Perimeter Coll. Lib., Dunwoody

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