04/16/2026
Nearly finished! Happy I decided to keep my oldie vessel, because I already was using it decoratively and it made me smile all of these years. Now it’s just really dressed up to go nowhere. ❤️
While I started doing kintsugi work a while ago, after a 2018 article by the super kind and thoughtful writer, Alene Bouranova for Boston Magazine, where we got to chat for four hours! I started getting more folks asking if I could repair some special-to-them-pieces. After a few ceramic chemistry courses, I was also able to even give what I called, “porcelain readings” — which meant, reading the maker’s mark, learning the date, and then judging the entire glaze fit and body over time. Sometimes sharing that their vintage piece used lead and I didn’t practice even wet grinding those old -vintage- lovelies. Typically the vintage ones were made in another country. And the manufacturers label was very clear and easy to consider. But it was when the glaze aged and crazed/cracked that also had me suggesting they stop eating from those particular wares.
I didn’t even bring up how my parents met in Japan. Lived there for nearly a decade, had their first monster there. And so I don’t know many 1970s era American stories of the economy from a familial lens. Because Japan was having a boom! okay, story time done. hashtag pseudo random thoughts from this former Vermonter :)
