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Five Goblins Pottery
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Five Goblins is the dream of potter, Rennie, and LARPer Nicole Caruso. She makes every day art for everyday life.
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This mug was a glaze test, and I can say with confidence that it succeeded.🤩 This is the final weekend of VARF! I love faire season but I am always ready for it to be over when it is. Five weeks of 24+ hours of work is a lot, especially when you're trying to do commissions+restocks for another show
June 5, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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VA Ren Faire has been great and crazy busy. The patrons seem to have taken my expanded winter production as a challenge, so I am behind the 8 ball for DFUS again. Have a picture of one of my DFUS commissions.

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June 3, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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Just got back from opening weekend of the VA Ren Faire -- I had the best weekend of sales ever. I sold multiple art pieces and many cups. The mimics did well, and my heart is so full right now. Stress and imposter syndrome will come for me eventually, but right now all I have is exhaustion and joy.
A collection of mugs, cups, and bowls with monstrous faces sculpted into them. A stoneware jar with many mushrooms sculpted on the sides. Also a tall mini pitcher carved with angular lines and glazed purple. A crochet horned goblin doll stands behind the pitcher.
May 10, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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New tabletop fountain!! I just cannot resist a good mushroom. I might need help.

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May 7, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Photos today! This lidded jar is part of my Alchemy Jar series, and I am deeply in love with my blue-ringed octopus. I don't have formal art training -- I started out as a hobby potter doing functional work, so sculpture has been something I have been teaching myself.
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A large stoneware lidded jar. It's glazed with a black matte glaze, and the words "Kraken Ink" have been carved on the side. There is a sculptural lid handle of a blue-ringed octopus. Cone 6 oxidation. A detail photo of a lid handle sculpted in the shape of a blue-ringed octopus.
May 2, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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The kiln was a good one!!

I only have a video of it because I got very excited -- do y'all prefer video or photos? I like photos for the ability to examine detail, but I like video for how well it supports the three dimensionality of my work.

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May 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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I put this kiln in on Wednesday and get to go unload it in a few hours. Really looking forward to what's inside!

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An electric kiln loaded with glazed bisqueware.
May 1, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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Remember the mimics? They remember you!

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April 24, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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Phoenix jar. I think this is genuinely some of the best flame carving I have done. Three weeks until VARF begins, I'm not stressed at all, why do you ask? 🙃

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A lidded jar with a sculptural handle of a phoenix. The jar is carved with sinuous flame shapes. B3 clay body, glaze is a studio golden luster. A lidded jar with a sculptural handle of a phoenix. The jar is carved with sinuous flame shapes. B3 clay body, glaze is a studio golden luster. A lidded jar with a sculptural handle of a phoenix. The jar is carved with sinuous flame shapes. B3 clay body, glaze is a studio golden luster. A lidded jar with a sculptural handle of a phoenix. The jar is carved with sinuous flame shapes. B3 clay body, glaze is a studio golden luster.
April 22, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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Y'all! I fired the first three mimics and they came out just like I had hoped. The other fifteen or so will get fired a few at a time while I work on my VARF kilns. I do this so if there is some sort of kiln disaster I can't lose all of them.

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April 12, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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I love this jar because who doesn't love mushrooms? I hate this jar because it has eight million delicate protuberences on it and packing it to take around to shows is going to be a nightmare. I would ask what I was thinking when I made it, but it was just "Mushroom🤩😍" #lgbtqartist
A lidded stoneware jar with cap mushrooms of many sizes sculpted on it. Cone 10 gas reduction fire, Standard 153 clay body. A lidded stoneware jar with cap mushrooms of many sizes sculpted on it. Cone 10 gas reduction fire, Standard 153 clay body. A lidded stoneware jar with cap mushrooms of many sizes sculpted on it. Cone 10 gas reduction fire, Standard 153 clay body.
April 6, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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The weather has finally been good enough that I can start glaze firing my mountain of bisqueware! I am going to guess that I have another six or so glaze kilns worth of bisque. This gorgeous jar is a gas reduction piece that came back recently, and I love her.

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A lidded jar with a sculpted mermaid as the handle. Cone 10 gas reduction fire with blue rutile, Coleman red, and Karin's Starshine glazes. A lidded jar with a sculpted mermaid as the handle. Cone 10 gas reduction fire with blue rutile, Coleman red, and Karin's Starshine glazes. A lidded jar with a sculpted mermaid as the handle. Cone 10 gas reduction fire with blue rutile, Coleman red, and Karin's Starshine glazes. A lidded jar with a sculpted mermaid as the handle. Cone 10 gas reduction fire with blue rutile, Coleman red, and Karin's Starshine glazes.
March 31, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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The kiln goblins have claimed their toll. I have to drive my greenware to the kiln I share with another artist, which means that sometimes I lose a piece before it ever reaches the kiln. This was a nice, light, even mug, so I'll just have to make another one.

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March 6, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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Third bisque kiln this week went in this morning, and not only did none of the mimics crack, the braided handle mug didn't crack either!

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March 6, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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My home LARP does a fundraiser every year and I donate a custom mug voucher. This year's winner went into bisque yesterday, so I want to show it off while it cools and I wait to find out if that braided handle cracks. 🙃
Leather hard clay mug with a braided handle, a teabag holding monster, and the words "Crafty Goblin" carved into it. Leather hard clay mug with a braided handle and a teabag holding monster Leather hard clay mug with a braided handle and a teabag holding monster
March 5, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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One of the commission pieces I am working on for Drachenfest US this year. This is going to be fired in cone 10 gas reduction with a blue rutile glaze. (The color is cheap watercolors that I is to "plan" my carving)

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March 4, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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Finally non-icy enough for me to get some bisque kilns fired! Half the mimics went in on Monday, other half will be in the 2-3 more firings I plan to do this week
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March 3, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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So, the mimics did not stop after Imbolc. They have stopped now, but only because I really do need to throw mugs for VARF. But look at their face! They are so bitey!

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February 12, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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They don't stop coming! Mimics until Imbolc! I was wrestling with some reclaim throwing today so my hands are tired and I have a lot of reclaim blocks wrapped in wet car towels.

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January 27, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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Obsessed with my mimics. Will be making as many as I can before Imbolc (that's when I shift over to making a few hundred mugs for the spring faire season)

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January 27, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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Do not obey in advance. Do not make their day easier. ICE agents don't get to have good days. Take up their time. Make them precisely and exhaustively explain themselves. If you can misunderstand them, do. Channel your inner toddler and passively resist.
nbedera.bsky.social Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · Jan 16
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.

And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”

Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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Starting a mimic collection, meet my first little guy, Bowl-gagwa.

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January 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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The world is on fire and my country is the arsonist.

Work in progress

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A black clay lidded jar with sculptural phoenix handle and carved flame shapes. The clay is unfired, at leather hard. A black clay lidded jar with sculptural phoenix handle and carved flame shapes. The clay is unfired, at leather hard. A black clay lidded jar with sculptural phoenix handle and carved flame shapes. The clay is unfired, at leather hard. A black clay lidded jar with sculptural phoenix handle and carved flame shapes. The clay is unfired, at leather hard.
January 7, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Some more lovelies from the last kiln! These were an exercise in throwing thin -- the goal was 5" x 3", 12 oz of clay. It was a fun exercise and helped me really get a feel for how thin the clay can get under my hands before I lose it. Also, my studio has nothing pretty *and* useful for scale in it.
Two wheel thrown stoneware tumblers, one burgundy with purple specks, one brown and cream and greenish. Two wheel thrown stoneware tumblers, one burgundy with purple specks, one brown and cream and greenish. There is a ruler between the tumblers, showing the scale of the objects. Two wheel thrown stoneware tumblers, one burgundy with purple specks, one brown and cream and greenish. This is a top-down view, and there is a ruler lying across the tops of the cups to show scale.
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I'm not supposed to be working right now, no one tell my partner.I had a shit day for throwing, struggled to get some measly 3lb balls to center. Ended up with one teapot body instead of four, but got some photos of the recent kiln load at least.

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Twelve reproductions of the Gotland cup thrown in four color agateware. The insides and handles of the cups are glazed colorfully, while the outsides of the cups are left unglazed to highlight the depth of color of the natural fired clay.
December 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM