My pals Alan and Gordo insist I should make boot mugs. Gordo has one like the glass one pictured. OKAY ALREADY!
I started thinking of the shapes involved, and so I made a little igloo and a little cylinder, they dried halfway, and I put them together with a handle. I kept on going, too, so don't ask: I added a tongue and laces and the side bits and details, but I thought it looked dumb, so simple it is, and it looks OK so far. One is tempted, of course, to make a converse high top, or take something like this and put a little mouse on it somewhere or.................
22 comments:
HOLY MOLEY!!!
An astoundingly good looking boot much. If you add a little niche near where the toe and book meet and hide a beer drinking cat you may just have it.
Plus if you close the top a little like a German clay stein you could add a pewter cap and have a toby boot.
like I was saying, about a Converse high top....
you caved! I can't beleive it.
I have no perspective, will it hold a pint of stout?
Hmm ... My comment seems to have "disappeared". I like it! Pretty amazing what you can accomplish when you just try. ;-)
Where did you find that mug pic, Gary? It's exactly the same as mine.
I know, br, why did I cave? perhaps a guy likes a challenge, and I inadvertantly got started thinking about it once Alan was talking.....this mug is a good size coffee mug, not quite big enough for a pint of stout. Sure, now I will try a bigger one....
(I am afraid to try my brown glaze on it, the bucket has sat there unused for 2 years, maybe I should make this boot mug blue or purple and do a test tile for the brown first)
Gordo--I know your pic, but I just google imaged boot mug.
First unicorns. Now boot mugs. I don't know about my affiliation with this site. I may have to rethink it all together.
Seahorses! :-)
Next up: Doc Martens.
Followed by: Cowboy boots.
It's the end of the world as we know it. But I feel fine.
GBS version, mind you, much peppier.
Seahorses do have that fun little nose.
Maggie, what can I say? We descend a little further everyday.
cm, a google image search for boot mugs turns up a couple of amusing items.
Frankly, mine looks pretty darn good. Just made parts for a bigger one.
Also found my dusty snow pants and since we left our roof rake frozen to the ground in New Hampshire last year, I made a roof rake out of our chimney sweep brush--we don't have a chimney anymore, and it has a long and lightweight pole, and I affixed a board to the end, VOILA! Ingenius potter.
my comment disappeared too. I voted to use the brown as this is a test boot.
How about something with a little more stiletto?
Good point Alan, and it is ridiculous comments like that, Maggie, that brings this blog down a little closer to the gutter.
Goober is playing games with comments, but I swear it is worse at Gordo's.
Well, coming from a potter who started making unicorns and boot mugs, I just don't know if that argument holds any water. But you do know I was kidding...surely you of all people, the king of kidders, knew I was kidding...of course, so were you
Look, I don't OWN any thigh high latex boots with stillettos, so there, Mags.
Interesting that you said "thigh high latex boots with stilletto" when I ONLY said "stilletto". Methinks the potter blogger is hiding something. Mrs. Pottersblog, were you aware of this little issue of his?
Like I said, I do not own such things. Nor do I think of them. I own..................COWBOY BOOTS! I got them free at the town dump, true story, and they look awesome.
Maggie, he also put a lot of emphasis on not OWNING said boots. I wonder if that was a bit of petulance? Maude! A Valentine's Day hint for you right there! ;-)
Yes, I like boots, I do. I like them on me, I like them on my wife. I like it when she wears a mini skirt and boots, I like it when it is cold and wet and I am wearing warm and dry boots.
END OF STORY, OK?
I vote to move on to converse high tops once you've mastered the boot.
Oh, and on the boot, maybe you can somehow get a unicorn on it. It's an idea... You'll sell hundreds, nay, thousands!
well, thank you!
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