Just made a new batch of mushroom jewelry boxes. It's all simple skills that when they come together produce something new.


It starts with a slab and a circle the same way you would for a mug.




The sides have to come together and the bottom put on.




Looks like a mug. Now is when I'd start bellying it out if it was a mug. Since it's not I shape it, but don't add volume.




I neglected to take a picture of the larger circle that will be the top, but it needs a flange. I shape the flange on the flower pot to make it circular.




The top starts in something that is rounded to give it shape and then I add in the flange with a coil on the inside.




It gets shaped to being as circular as possible.




Then it gets flipped over and the worm gets added to the top.




8 pots on the shelf to be covered in plastic and dry for a couple of days. I want the pot to setup enough to carve the bottom and use the hole cutter.




I use a fluting diamong core tool to make the ridges on the bottom.




I use my fingers to flatten out the edge and make it a little wavy. Not required, but I like the look. I also give the worm little eyes just because.




Now we painstakingly do holes all the way around. The biggest challenge is to not go too close to the edge or too close to the previous hole.




Tada!! This is mostly done. Just some final clean up left.