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Find Out How the Stars Align for Your Pottery Personality

Astrological signs, but make them ceramics
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Assorted Bombabird ceramics, handmade in Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaCourtesy of Food52

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I’ll be the first to confess that I wake, breathe, and dream about ceramics. My YouTube video recommendations are an amalgamation of wheel-throwing tutorials, hand-building techniques, and glazing demonstrations. I’m quick to lift up a mug at a local café and check the stamp of the potter who made said vessel. Some pet puppies; I pet vases

After years of infatuation, I’ve come to associate different clay styles with certain personality types. Explore this list of sophisticated potters, and what each one reveals about you.

Pottery personality: For the calm, cool, and collected

If you’re drawn to Bombabird, chances are that you also wear unbleached organic cotton, you’re a reserved yet highly perceptive dinner party guest, and you might be found propagating pilea for neighbors. Your dream vacation is being snowed into a cabin in Maine with a wood-burning stove, a tall stack of books, and a 1,500-piece-puzzle of a foggy cliff vista.

Bombabird Ceramics Handmade Textured Bud Vases

Pottery personality: The nature lover

Introducing the one and only Jonathan Yamakami. Nature lovers unite over a mutual love for Jonathan’s work. Let me guess: You were big into exploring tide pools as a child. You probably love evening walks, savory breakfasts, wind chimes, and you surely have a coffee-table book about the art of Ikebana.

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Jonathan Yamakami Seedpod 2

Pottery personality: Rebel with a cause

Check out LBP Clay. Or don’t. What do you care? Because you march to the beat of your own drum. You got your first tattoo when you were a teenager and you still fucking love it. You might just have a German shepherd named Baby. You spend every Sunday helping your grandma write her memoir. You have synesthesia and you don’t even publicly brag about it. You definitely cut your own hair.

LBP Clay Small Sawtooth Vase

Pottery personality: Young at heart

Bold stripes mixed with iridescent glazes and pastel hues, Whitney Simpkins’s Personal Best Ceramics collection is for the lollipop-lickers, karaoke queens, and dedicated diary scribblers. You’ve been known to have a themed birthday extravaganza. Let me guess, Old Hollywood? Disco?

Personal Best Ceramics Wriggle Vase

Pottery personality: The It Girl

How does it feel to be everyone’s No. 1 crush? Those drawn to Analuisa Corrigan’s ceramics and sculptures are natural-born showstoppers. You walk in a room and turn heads. You “just whip something up,” and it’s the best meal your guests have ever tasted. Your skin: always flawless. You speak five languages. You summer in Greece. You fix your own car.

Analuisa Corrigan It's My Show Here

Pottery personality: Daydream believer

Sam Kelly is for the flower children out there. You’re a tie-dye-wearing, wildflower-picking, Ayurvedic-eating, open-water-swimming, essential oils savant. You often wonder about life outside of our planet. You’re humble, compassionate, caring, and have a seriously contagious laugh.

Sam Kelly Starry Eyes Trinket Dish

Pottery personality: Craver of color

Those with eyes for the Danish brand Raawii are the ultimate design peacocks (and yes, that’s a compliment in our book). These individuals walk into our world and put grins on our faces. You’re a Memphis Design–loving, vintage Datsun-driving, “silk scarf tied around your hair”-wearing, show-tune-singing, electric-blue-nail-polish-painting, dirty-martini-sipping, “dance till dawn”-ing super human! You are vibrant! You are fierce! You are loved!

Raawii Strøm Vase

Pottery personality: Careful and considered

Is it all just too much to take on? Not for you, you Rachel Saunders stan, you. See, because you know how to set boundaries. Your planner is leather-bound and costs more than a week’s salary, but you’re organized as hell, so it’s worth every penny. You make your own chia parfaits. Your side hustle recently graduated to your full-time job. And it’s all thanks to your daily morning meditation practice.

Rachel Saunders The Phone Home