{"id":1156,"date":"2011-06-02T08:59:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T15:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2013-04-13T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T16:56:34","slug":"gettin-all-loopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"The Mt. Saint Helens vocano ash mug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/redloopforblog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1163\" title=\"redloopforblog\" src=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/redloopforblog-e1307030739616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a new mug handle design that is actually an old mug handle design.\u00a0 I used to make a lot of these &#8220;loop mugs&#8221; when I first started making pottery for a living back in 1978.\u00a0 It&#8217;s got a really comfy grip even though it looks kind of clunky.\u00a0 They are for sale in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goestores.com\/storename\/thomassedwards\/ViewDept-272962.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">online store<\/a>.\u00a0 This mug handle was a mainstay in my pre-Wally reduction glaze line (1978 &#8211; 1984).\u00a0 A really interesting artifact from that era are the &#8220;volcano mugs&#8221; that my wife Lori and I created back then.\u00a0 Lori&#8217;s father grew up in Castle Rock, Washington and his family farm was flooded the day after Mt. St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980.\u00a0 That year, he gave me some coffee cans filled with ash from this eruption, and the pure ash made an excellent cone ten glaze.\u00a0 Lori did the artwork on the outside of the mugs and we sold them at craft fairs for years.\u00a0 I&#8217;m guessing we produced about a hundred of them over a period of three years.\u00a0 Thank goodness I kept one for posterity!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/volcanomugM2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1158\" title=\"volcanomugM2\" src=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/volcanomugM2-e1307030259187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/volcanomugM3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1159\" title=\"volcanomugM3\" src=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/volcanomugM3-e1307030331647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/volcanomugM4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1160\" title=\"volcanomugM4\" src=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/volcanomugM4-e1307030390120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a new mug handle design that is actually an old mug handle design.\u00a0 I used to make a lot of these &#8220;loop mugs&#8221; when I first started making pottery for a living back in 1978.\u00a0 It&#8217;s got a really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/?p=1156\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[125,116],"tags":[135,261,222,103],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-wallyware-collectables","tag-coffee-mugs","tag-mt-st-helens-ash-glaze","tag-ohata-kaki-red-glaze","tag-tom-edwards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}