Bearcat Design

Bearcat Design Cute buttons and pendants made with love in the Bay Area, inspired by nature and its silly faces! Message me for details about custom commissions!

Cute buttons and pendants handmade with love in the Bay Area. Bearcat Design is Jenny He, spell slinger and nature enthusiast; feel free to ask any questions that come to mind!

Test tile with a function! I liked the idea of shot glasses you that could only be set down when emptied. I wrote gan be...
02/04/2026

Test tile with a function! I liked the idea of shot glasses you that could only be set down when emptied. I wrote gan bei - cheers, or "dry [your] cup" in it! It shrank down to more like half a shot and i realized later i should have written the text so it could be read when held like a shot glass... oops! But i like this fellow. Very derpy lil one :)

Blue celadon on rodsbod fired at cone 10.

Ah, the butt era. Everything gets a butt! Douglas celadon over rodsbod clay fired at cone 10.
02/03/2026

Ah, the butt era. Everything gets a butt!

Douglas celadon over rodsbod clay fired at cone 10.

It feels a little silly to post test tiles for glazes i might never use again, but hey! Laney college ceramics students ...
02/03/2026

It feels a little silly to post test tiles for glazes i might never use again, but hey! Laney college ceramics students this is for you!

Copper red on rodsbod clay, fired at cone 10. Fall 2024 semester - maybe the red glaze issue finally got sorted since then? You can see a few dots of red here and there but by and large it fired clear with a faint green tint.

Absolutely brilliant trades and purchases at today's Quartz!!! Lovely meeting ppl and getting to bring home such wonderf...
11/09/2025

Absolutely brilliant trades and purchases at today's Quartz!!! Lovely meeting ppl and getting to bring home such wonderful creations 😍

At Place in Oakland for Quartz art market!!! Till 5 today :) Come check out my random wares!
09/13/2025

At Place in Oakland for Quartz art market!!! Till 5 today :) Come check out my random wares!

I wanted to make this abomination since first semester! 6 handled mug hahaTheyre all different! It was fun seeing which ...
09/11/2025

I wanted to make this abomination since first semester! 6 handled mug haha

Theyre all different! It was fun seeing which shapes were actually comfy vs which just looked like handles and actually really sucked to hold.

One of the handles popped off (i had so many struggles with the 811 red clay this semester 😭) but luckily this piece had another 5 to choose from 😂 I used e6000 to reattach the naughty handle.

Glazed like a maniac: green to black over racer celadon outside, rutile blue along the rim, wu blue inside the mug, and i used temoku to reconnect the third foot to the body (og foot got lost so i sculpted a new one out of bmix and used glaze to stick it back on).

My little monster!

Come visit Quartz Market this Saturday! I and so many other artists will be vending and I'm so looking forward to the ar...
09/10/2025

Come visit Quartz Market this Saturday! I and so many other artists will be vending and I'm so looking forward to the art supply swap too :D

Bmix slab and pinch pot pelican!!!!! I love this silly goober! I made it for a pitcher assignment and technically, it co...
08/26/2025

Bmix slab and pinch pot pelican!!!!! I love this silly goober! I made it for a pitcher assignment and technically, it counts :)

Sadly the orange slip mostly burnt out at cone 10, and the clear glaze was a little thick and makes the scream in the back of the mouth a little obfuscated... and i really should have done feet so he could stand better... but hey! I love making a silly idea real :) and i know better what to do next time!

Another warm up piece - i love kurinuki for loosening up and listening to the clay! This one is 811 red with ct shino - ...
08/15/2025

Another warm up piece - i love kurinuki for loosening up and listening to the clay! This one is 811 red with ct shino - easily one of my favorite unpredictable glazes.

Fall of 2024 i made some stuff! And then i forgot to document it and submit any assignments and stopped updating here. B...
08/11/2025

Fall of 2024 i made some stuff! And then i forgot to document it and submit any assignments and stopped updating here. But here we go again :)

These were silly warm up pieces to get my hands dirty! A hanging wall piece for my friends of their dog (slab bmix with much too heavy a coat of clear glaze), another difficult lemon attempt (kurinuki bmix with yellow slip on the outside and again too much clear glaze), and a little mushroom house (811 red clay with douglas celadon over satin white on the cap, clear on the body).

Vending again at :) Through 5 pm today at PLACE! Maximum ADHD spread hahaha
08/09/2025

Vending again at :) Through 5 pm today at PLACE! Maximum ADHD spread hahaha

Went to sjmade for the first time! THE OVERWHELM!!! So many brilliant artists and cute wares, i feel so lucky to have fo...
07/21/2025

Went to sjmade for the first time! THE OVERWHELM!!! So many brilliant artists and cute wares, i feel so lucky to have found some new favorite artists, said hi to friends, and had chats with artists i followed for a while now! (Also the keychain at the bottom is by banh.bells, for my own future reference :) )

I have picked up other lovely goods from other events and done spreads and not posted them 😭 They are buried somewhere in my camera roll, drat. Maybe someday theyll resurface...

And a return to ceramics journalling should happen at some point. I like having the references, but making them! Less fun.

Cheers yall. Take care, make art, spread joy ❤️

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