Every once in awhile you just have to recycle your clay, not very exciting but someone has to do it. With five gallon buckets full of scrap clay everywhere in the studio, it comes a time to say enough…I need the space. I save every scrap, trimming piece, accidental broken green ware to reconstitute into good reusable clay. Clay is relative inexpensive but I cannot see throwing clay away.

I dreamt of purchasing a pug mill, I was held back by the fact they were so expensive. An opportunity came to me to purchase a Peter Pugger less than two years old from a local commercial pottery studio.. This worked out quite nice for each of us. They needed a larger one and I needed the smaller.

Eventually all the scrap clay will be recycled and the studio free of clay bucket s until I fill up the empties with more clay. I call this studio house cleaning. It is a good feeling to start again… Pot on.